Yeah that is very true. Jeans and pants aren't nearly as low-rise anymore. I also think more thongs are designed to be low-rise, combined with hi-waist pants = a recipe for no thong slips. Then again, now that pants are getting higher, I think the super low-rise thongs might go away again. These things usually go in cycles and just repeat. What I have always wondered, and have never really been able to find out, is how do you know if a thong is low rise, mid rise, or high cut? Other than a store calling it that, what really makes it that? I want to buy some for my girlfriend but I want the higher cut ones, not low-rise.