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Should I allow my 15 yr old to wear thongs?

74 replies

LaurenConway · 22/07/2010 15:51

My daughter Riley is 15 and wants to start wearing thongs becuase all the other girls do. I don't usually have a problem with whatever she chooses to do, but I just feel wierd about this.
My husband Matt, being the typically male, doesn't care and said I'm a slight hypocrite as I waer them myself and let my eldest wear them too.
I just don't want my daughter to be like the other girls I see with everything hanging out, or should I let her make her own choices? HELP!

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traceybath · 22/07/2010 15:52

You may want to get your post deleted and not use their real names - if they indeed are.

Are thongs fashionable with 15 year olds - I thought they were a bit old hat now.

GetOrfMoiLand · 22/07/2010 15:53

i wear thongs as i don't like a visible panty line - it is not a sexual thing at all. So I would let dd wear them if she wanted.

I would advise that she wouldn't wear them under jeans though, as g-string poking out of the top of hipsters looks vile. Is prob best to go commando when wearing skinny fit jeans.

GypsyMoth · 22/07/2010 15:54

let her wear them,she's a the age where you cant really stop her anyway. so not worth the aggro

GetOrfMoiLand · 22/07/2010 15:54

Yes or ask MNHQ to delete the names but let the post stand.

FWIW dd wouldn't be seen dead in thongs as she thinks they are sad in the extreme - she wears boy style short thingies, or girls y fronts from bollocking Jack Wills which cost £12 a go.

GetOrfMoiLand · 22/07/2010 15:55

Yes - i would say pick your arguments OP.

How would you realistically police it anyway? Ask to check her knickers? Just let her wear what underwear she wants.

ZeppoMarx · 22/07/2010 15:56

What a peculiar first post Lauren.
And, while \I don't really think you can stop her, I have one word for you. Thrush.

LaurenConway · 22/07/2010 15:56

They're not seen as sexual things anymore? Well that's a lot off my mind.

And I thought they were 'old hat' too, but it seems their slowly sneaking their way back into girls panty draws.

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GetOrfMoiLand · 22/07/2010 15:57

Thongs don't give you thrush if you wear cotton ones.

If you choose knickers made from manmade fibres you have more problems than thrush!

ZeppoMarx · 22/07/2010 15:57

And, with the phrase 'panty draw' comes confirmation that you are in fact a man. Lame.

LaurenConway · 22/07/2010 15:59

How does that make me a man? Just proves I've been married for way to many years. I've also been taught the offside rule

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GetOrfMoiLand · 22/07/2010 16:00

lol at 'panty draws'

RedArsedBaboon · 22/07/2010 16:00

fuck off you filthy pervert.

GypsyMoth · 22/07/2010 16:01

lol

LaurenConway · 22/07/2010 16:03

All this because I said 'panty draw'?

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paisleyleaf · 22/07/2010 16:03

What RAB said.

RedArsedBaboon · 22/07/2010 16:03

yeah, you let yourself down in the first few mins of a trolling thread. Prat

GypsyMoth · 22/07/2010 16:03

knicker drawer is more usual term

traceybath · 22/07/2010 16:04

panty [vomit emoticon]

LaurenConway · 22/07/2010 16:06

I don't get it. In Cornwall that's what we call them

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beanlet · 22/07/2010 16:06

drawer, not draw -- and panty is vile.

GetOrfMoiLand · 22/07/2010 16:07

Lol at 'in Cornwall'

I am from Devon and down there we call 'em knickerbockers.

TBH I am not convibnced that this is a troll really

paisleyleaf · 22/07/2010 16:09

I hope for 15 year old Riley Conway from Cornwall that it is!

LaurenConway · 22/07/2010 16:12

I admit, knockerbockers do sound better lol

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Purplebuns · 22/07/2010 16:15

How does 'Panty draw' identify her As a man or a troll?
Or a filthy pervert just for having these concerns?

traceybath · 22/07/2010 16:16

Panty is just such a porntastic/creepy word.

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