Too much skin showing at school?

Chicago Daily Herald ^ | April 28, 2004

[presidio9]

Big Thongs Mean Big Business April 28, 2004 — There are big bucks in big thongs.

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Click Here for More WPVI.com Bizarre News Retailer Torrid is carving out a niche that fits – in the plus-sized market.

The company sells sexy clothes for large young women in more than 50 stores across the country. The Wall Street Journal reports Torrid has everything from camisole-and-thong lingerie sets to belly-button revealing T-shirts.

CEO Betsy McLaughlin says her customers want to be sexy and feminine – in sizes from 12-to-26.

Even Torrid's logo makeover sends the message. The typeface has gone from skinny and jagged to pink and rounded.

[SF Republican]

Every generation has their thing, I remember (with fondness) hot pants.

[Huck]

I'm sorry, but most parents let their 11 year olds walk around in public looking like $40 whores.

[Always Right]

The girls wearing those low-riders expose more butt-crack than my plumber.

[mountaineer]

her customers want to be sexy and feminine – in sizes from 12-to-26.

Trying desperately to bite my tongue.

[presidio9]

As all of us had the misfortune of discovering, thongs have been available for women of, um, "plus sizes" since at least the mid 90's...

[tongue-tied]

Hey! Oh wait...okay.

[Agnes Heep]

"I'm 16. I can legally drive. But people are going to tell me (what's) appropriate for school?" she said. "I mean, I'm not coming to school dressed in a bikini."

Three of the most useless things in the world: boobs on a dyke, balls on a fag, and the opinion of a teenager.

[biblewonk]

I like the term "prostitots"

[CatoRenasci]

Maybe we should just have the kids come to school naked.... and abandon all pretense of anything but prurient interest on the part of the faculty.

[biblewonk]

You left out tits on a bull and gold rings in hog's noses.

[Annie03]

"I'm sorry, but most parents let their 11 year olds walk around in public looking like $40 whores"

Don't be sorry-this is true. Now I have to learn to sew because the clothes for my 6yo (besides sweats) have that look. We are blessed because we are able to homeschool our children and don't have to deal with the popular dress battle.

[kezekiel]

It's increasingly difficult for my conservative 16-year-old daughter to find clothes that are not revealing. I've gone with her; it blows my mind what the stores put on the racks for teenage girls.

[Inspectorette]

How can these young women think they look good, when they're wearing low-rider pants with their big fat guts and spare tires hanging over the belt.

[AppyPappy]

Testify!

[Mr. Mojo]

I must admit that back when I was in high school and pretty girls showed up wearing little more than bikinis. .......well, let's just say I was ok with it ;)~

[kezekiel]

You left out tits on a bull and gold rings in hog's noses.

biblewonk gets the award of the day for relevant Bible reference:

Prov 11:22-Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion.

Although I must say that I think the analogy is meant more to show the innapropriate blending of the beautiful and base than to show useless function.

[elfman2]

" Every generation has their thing, I remember (with fondness) hot pants."

I remember tube tops with bras burned. Guess even feminist are good for something.

[Huck]

It's really out of control. Just 10 years ago, the only girls you saw with bellies showing and exposed tatoos on their backsides were strippers. Now you see it at every bustop. It's sick.