If there is one reason it’s good to be alive in these times, it’s the return of big pants. Finally, it seems that everyone has shunned the thong – that punishing confection of string and minuscule triangle of fabric – in favour of knickers that cover your entire rear, not just parts of it. Pants that are roomy and comfortable, which, to quote my gran, “You know when you’ve got them on.” When Bridget Jones revealed her “absolutely enormous panties” to Hugh Grant’s Daniel Cleaver character almost 18 years ago, thongs were at their zenith. Many a ‘whale tail’ peeped over waistbands of trousers. They were sold on the idea that thongs obliterated VPL, which forgets that big knickers do that job just as well, providing wraparound coverage while they…
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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2019