Thongs in different countries and cultures

[f.herdiana]

That's a great view

Please like for my wife's g-string:

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/YfDpjjp68oQ?feature=share

oh yeahh...

 

[some guy]

I'm currently visiting Ibiza, and this little island has filled me with confidence that whale tail fashion has made a full-on comeback. Like holy shit you guys. I've seen more thongs in 3 days here than I have in the last 20 years combined. I'm talking all varieties: high-rise thongs pulled high over pants, whale tails with skirts, completely transparent pants with thongs underneath, tight dresses with VTL, sometimes they even wear pants made of a net material that literally shows everything, and thong swimsuits are the majority on any beach. Sometimes you'll even see women with a "fake whaletail" because it's one of those skirts or pants with built-in straps that are meant to look like an exposed thong. It's like they decided to bring back whale tail fashion from the early 2000s, except even better and more extravagant this time.

A lot of people in Ibiza are young party-going tourists from England, France or Germany, so it's maybe a "biased sample" that doesn't represent most of the population. But I'm saying. If you consider yourself a thong enthusiast, (so basically everyone here), you gotta come here.

Some of the hottest examples I can think of:

• When I was walking into this club Amnesia, the girl in front of me had on a pink triangle thong pulled high over a pink skirt. I then saw her adjust the thong by pulling the straps up even higher.
• In that same club, I saw at least 10 other women with a similar fashion choice. One girl in particular I found super hot was showing off her thong with a white strap in the back and green strings on the side, and a matching bra with the same color green strings. I mean these thongs were pulled like 6 inches above the skirt.
• On the sunset strip, literally half the women walking around had transparent clothing on with thongs visible. But my favorite one had black netted pants with a black g-string under, ALSO pulled over the pants on the sides, and there was a silver metallic piece at the back where the strings connected. The metallic piece was under the pants but clearly visible, and the side strings were pulled 2 inches over the pants.
• A group of 4 friends at a beach, all in thongs. One of them topless.

 

[thongsthongsthongs]

Another business/leisure trip, this time to Buenos Aires, Argentina. I was excited as there seem to be a lot of Argentines on Tiktok showing off their thongs for trends (I'll link some of them below). I knew I probably wasn't going to see many whaletails, as it is winter in Argentina and they tend to wear a lot of high rise pants.

Argentina (Buenos Aires especially) is quite European-influenced, as there was a smaller native population than other parts of Latin America, and immigrants from Europe were encouraged a long, long time ago. So many Spaniards, Italians, and Germans especially, but in general a lot of white or mixed people. This might be why the fashion is a little more European-influenced as there are more tight leather pants and rompers and whatnot. Maybe the Europeans also brought the thong culture over as well.

I was surprised at the amount of low rise jeans I saw, almost entirely worn by younger women, so it's probably like much of the y2k comeback trend. I only ever saw one whaletail from low rise jeans, though, and it was just barely a peek, but it looked like a red g-string. Otherwise, I saw at least 2 dozen VTL's through tight high-waisted leather pants and jeans, a lot of them of the lacy variety. They do seem to prefer lace, as lots of underwear stores we passed by had lacy thongs out front. We also passed through a weekend artisan market and multiple stalls were selling hand-made g-strings and g-strings only. I went to an underground club with friends and couldn't see much but I did see a white thong through a white dress, and a few of those thong bodysuits with the super high sides above their pants. We met up with a friend of my Argentine friend, and while she wore super high waisted pants as well, I thought I could make out a thong line through them.

Overall, thongs seemed pretty popular in my experience, especially with women under 50. I didn't spend long in Ecuador when I was there previously, but the European influence can clearly be seen in Argentina and I think it reflects in the fashion and thong-wearing.

This girl has started a few trends of showing off her thong, and many have followed. Click on the sound to see them all. You can see why I was excited to go to Argentina haha, but unfortunately this wasn't common in public.

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7356064344502717701

View: https://www.tiktok.com/@simovianii/video/7356064344502717701?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7385270025428977182

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7346070856197524741

View: https://www.tiktok.com/@simovianii/video/7346070856197524741?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7385270025428977182

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7347410035510922502

View: https://www.tiktok.com/@simovianii/video/7347410035510922502?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7385270025428977182


Here's one girl following her lead as an example

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7370096874767797510

View: https://www.tiktok.com/@azulcitapp/video/7370096874767797510?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7385270025428977182


This girl has plenty

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7356659406823591173

View: https://www.tiktok.com/@sofiaalopezpk/video/7356659406823591173

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7345959206836620550

View: https://www.tiktok.com/@sofiaalopezpk/video/7345959206836620550?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7385270025428977182

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7420988988170816774

View: https://www.tiktok.com/@sofiaalopezpk/video/7420988988170816774?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7385270025428977182

 

[Northern Lynx]

Another business/leisure trip, this time to Buenos Aires, Argentina... This might be why the fashion is a little more European-influenced as there are more tight leather pants and rompers and whatnot. Maybe the Europeans also brought the thong culture over as well.

I guess it can be hard to gauge who is imitating whom, but I suspect that when it comes to thongs, Argentinians probably looked to Brazil first. Obviously, thongs have existed forever in various forms, but since the trend of the modern thong largely came out of Brazilian beach fashion, I wouldn't be surprised if Argentina had their first "thong boom" at the same time, if not earlier than Europe/North America. Some quick googling supports this theory, but cold hard numbers on this topic are difficult to come by, so I'm not gonna say it's for sure.

It sucks, really. Literature and stats do exist, but since they're mostly meant for market research, they're crazy expensive to access. I'd love to see how the fashion industry is actually thinking behind the scenes when it comes to underwear design, or see charts of thong-sales throughout the years.

But thanks for interesting input! And that goes for everyone else in this thread too. Keep it coming!

Thong-meta is a great word, I like it. Truly a groundbreaking idea or concept for this "sociology of thong underwear" that I feel parts of this forum is starting to create.

Hah, yeah.

So I just quickly browse through what the other girls had hanging there, and to my complete amazement it was 3 pairs of "regular" style underwear, and the rest (15-ish pairs) are thongs (no cheekies, no brazilians - thongs).

And these are not even close to your supermodel girls, just "normal" women, more towards the nerdier side, two of them with university degrees, the third one working in a book shop. One of them a bit more chubby, but the other two are active and in good shape. However, they are not the type where I would have guessed thongs being their go-to style-of-underwear.

Nice! I have to say I'm always a little extra impressed with "nerdy girls" who wear thongs, since it's more of a given when it comes to girly-girls. I've dated a few women who were on the geeky side, and they did not wear thongs. Well, not at first. The majority were persuadable, and updated their panty drawer to accommodate my uncommon adoration with thongs. But that's another topic entirely.

 

[kimmythong]

I can't get enough of Latinas. They are so gorgeous and out-going. Gotta start learning Spanish.

We tend to put Latin Americans into one big category, but I am sure there are cultural variations within the Latin American community. I would like to know which Latin American country is the most conservative and which is the most liberal?