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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 |
By Phoenix Delray
 With the evolution of womens undergarments to exotic lingerie, Darwin would be proud (or embarrassed) to learn that he was not the inspiration for this adaptation process. Credit former New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia for the law requiring women wear thong underwear! Well, actually, not exactly as all the mayor did in 1939 is insist that the citys nude exotic dancers wear something, the bare minimum became acceptable. Leave it to exotic dancers again to once again dictate the fashion styles of todays times.
Thanks to 1980s stars like Madonna, underwear as outwear skyrocketed as lingerie came out from behind the curtains to the world stage. French refer to designs doubling as outerwear to be dessous dessus which means inner as outer wear. Frou Frou, a term for show it off depicts lingerie as an accessory instead of underwear in that the expectation that straps and lace trim be layered as part of clothing worn on the outside. With European styles setting trends for the rest of the world, its no wonder womens undergarments have undergone a revolution of sorts.
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