We interrupt Valentine’s Day gift hunters with this important announcement: the thong is over. Or at least that’s what the Star is arguing. Sarah Barmak takes aim at the string underthings, noting that Valentine’s Day lingerie displays are featuring lacy boy shorts and culottes instead of the barely there bottoms. The nail in the coffin: Cosmo magazine (which gets credit for popularizing G-strings) calls them as “predictable as the celebrity sex tape” in this month’s issue. At Secrets From Your Sister, one of Toronto’s premiere undergarment boutiques, sales of thongs have never compared with those of bikinis, shorts or briefs, though the store does offer a class to educate women in thong-wearing techniques. But despite signalling the end of Sisqo’s favourite garment, Barmak doesn’t want them entirely discarded.
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Toronto Star takes on skimpy underwear
Canadian figure skater Patrick Chan makes modelling debut
Patrick Chan for Harry Rosen (Photo courtesy of Harry Rosen)
Last year, figure skating became the stuff of reality television dreams, and now figure skaters have become the stuff of fashion inspiration. The men of skating are proving to be a fashion-forward bunch, scoring modelling gigs, taking on PETA and acting as muses to designers.
The leader of the pack is Johnny Weir, the dramatic American singles skater, who’s created controversy with a staunchly pro-fur stance, saying he wouldn’t stop wearing fur until he saw “a chinchilla wearing me.” Weir also played model in the New York Times Magazine recently, wearing a revealing crocheted costume made specifically for him by Rodarte, the avant-garde label known more for quadruple-digit prices than quadruple lutzes. Designer Vera Wang, a former figure skater herself, has created outfits for her new muse, U.S. skater Evan Lysacek, in Vancouver for both his short and long programs.
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