Brazilian designer Sandra Tanimura, of the Japanese clothing company Sanna, has blurred the line between a G-String bikini and a pair of denim jeans. She has provided her customers with the solution to their request for ultra-low-rise jeans, a hybrid of denim and thong bikini bottoms. In order to avoid showing of your knickers in public, enter the bikini-jean, one of this year's more brazen fashion trends.
These hip-hugging jeans are held up by a ribbon tied at the side or elasticated G-String and allow women to bearing more of their behinds in public, reminiscent of the fashion faux pas of flashing your G-string above the top of your waistband.
In the Daily Mail’s article of April 23rd 2008, “revealing the ultra low hip-hugging jeans that come with their own bikini bottoms,” Tanimura states that her customers wanted very low trousers but had difficulty in keeping them up. “I came up with the idea of using bikini strings to let the trousers really low without falling.” Given that the product manufacturer is based in Brazil, with its women famed for their shapely derrieres and svelte figures, perhaps their request is not so surprising.
Whether the trend takes off in Europe or North America remains to be seen. This is definitely one that needs to be avoided, unless you are young, have a butt to-die-for, and are slender enough to carry it off. These jeans leave very little to the imagination so you also need an awful lot of nerve, given the amount of attention you are likely to attract. However, if you are of the age where, when divided by two, you come out in single figures, (and have the body of a beach babe a pierced navel to match), then at an affordable £45 ($90) from their website, Sannas Brazil Fashion, these denim jeans may have some appeal. This revealing trend is good news for ultra-slim and very brazen fashionistas, and are likely to become hot items for clubbing, by the younger set.
According to the website One India, not surprisingly, “the trend has already caught on with Japanese teenage girls,” as they have boyish Asian bodies to carry them off. In the west it’s not hard to image Britney Spears or Miley Cirus rocking in this trend. Give it a few more months for some A-list celebrities decide to favor the look, and then showing off your G-string in public may no longer be such a fashion faux pas, but a fashion-forward move instead!