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Please don’t tell me G-strings are making a comeback

JUST because Kim Kardashian West is in the middle of an intense love affair with this revealing underwear style doesn’t mean we all have to follow her lead.
 
Just because Kim Kardashian has embraced the G-string doesn’t mean we all should.Source:Instagram

Just because Kim Kardashian has embraced the G-string doesn’t mean we all should.Source:Instagram

OPINION

THE greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing women that G-strings are comfortable to wear.

It began, the way so many trends do, with a Kim Kardashian post on Instagram. I hesitate to call it a “selfie” because, frankly, I’m not sure you can take a photo of your own bum from such an angle yourself.

Still, there it was, underneath her lemon yellow athleisure two-piece: an old-school G-string, poking out over her leggings, and then up over the hips, in the style of late 1990s pop stars and dilettantes. A “whale tail”. The only thing missing was the lower back Celtic tattoo.

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The ’90s aesthetic was no accident — the G-string itself was from Tom Ford’s 1997 collection for Gucci, no doubt languishing away in a closet somewhere before being plucked into prominence by KKW. Which is to say, it was not the modified lace ones we see today. This was full-blown, almost literal string with a Gucci emblem redolent of the NeverEnding Story snake talisman.

Fine! So what? So Kim is wearing a G-string? It doesn’t mean the world will.

But then she kept posting them.

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