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Whale tail is the Y-shaped rear portion of a
thong
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Viewed from the front, the thong typically resembles a bikini bottom, but at the ...
or
G-string
A G-string is a type of thong, a narrow piece of fabric, leather, or satin that covers or holds the genitals, passes between the buttocks, and is attached to a waistband around the hips. A G-string can be worn both by men and by women. It may ...
when visible above the waistline of
low-rise pants,
shorts
Shorts are a garment worn over the pelvic area, circling the waist and splitting to cover the upper part of the legs, sometimes extending down to the knees but not covering the entire length of the leg. They are called "shorts" because they ...
, or
skirts
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At its simplest, a skirt can be a draped garment made out of a single piece of fabric (such as pareos). However, most skirts are ...
that resembles a
whale's tail.
Popularized by a number of female celebrities including
Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera (; ; born December 18, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality. Known for her four-octave vocal range and ability to sustain high notes, she has been referred to as the " Voice of ...
,
Victoria Beckham
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,
Mariah Carey,
Paris Hilton
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and
Britney Spears, displaying whale tails became popular in the early 2000s, together with the popularity of
low-rise jeans
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and thong panties; but quickly waned within the decade.
Low-waisted trousers, such as low-rise jeans or
hip-huggers, and higher-cut thongs led to greater exposure of the whale tail.
[Garchik, Leah (2004-08-23). ''"Daily Datebook"''. '']San Francisco Chronicle
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'': F8. "A Hollister spy says the thong visible from the back of low-rise jeans is called a "whale tail." The trend was also associated with the trend of sporting lower back tattoo
Tattoos on the lower back became popular in the first decade of the 21st century, and gained a reputation for their erotic appeal. The tattoos were sometimes accentuated by low-rise jeans or crop tops. Their popularity was in part due to the i ...
s.
The word was selected by the American Dialect Society
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in January 2006 as the "most creative word" of 2005.
History
The rising popularity of low-rise jeans led to increased exposure of thong tops in the early 2000s. Britney Spears has been portrayed as a major contributor to the whale tail's popularity.[ Her whale tail display has been referred to in such creative literature books as ''Married to a Rock Star'' by Shemane Nugent,] ''Thong on Fire'' by Noire, ''The Magical Breasts of Britney Spears'' by Ryan G. Van Cleave, and ''Off-Color'' by Janet McDonald. ''The Oregonian
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'', a Portland, Oregon
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, newspaper, wrote in 2004 that an abundance of whale tails had become a distraction on the campus. Social commentator Ann C. Hall identified this campus trend as an "apparent intersection between everyday campus fashion and soft porn".[ The layered clothing trend of the early 2000s was partly led by the whale tail style that incorporates hip-hugger jeans, ]crop top
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s and high riding thong
The thong is a garment generally used as either underwear or in some countries, as a swimsuit. It may also be worn for traditional ceremonies or competitions.
Viewed from the front, the thong typically resembles a bikini bottom, but at the ...
s popularized by celebrities.
Rise
By the mid-2000s, whale tails became common to celebrities, providing opportunities to the paparazzi
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.[Websites like th]
Whale tail World
listed out their own version of top celebrity whale tails Whale tail display spawned a new accessory—clip-on jewelry for the visible straps. Jess Cartner-Morley of ''The Guardian
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'' claimed that following pop star
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s in the hipster trousers gave rise to the "low-slung jeans, whale-tail G-string era". On 17 September 2004, a writer for the ''Chicago Sun-Times
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'' stated, " Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera
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regularly were photographed with thong straps riding high above their low-rise jeans. And even usually tasteful Halle Berry succumbed to the thong craze by attending an awards show with bejeweled thong straps peeking out from above her miniskirt
A miniskirt (sometimes hyphenated as mini-skirt, separated as mini skirt, or sometimes shortened to simply mini) is a skirt with its hemline well above the knees, generally at mid-thigh level, normally no longer than below the buttocks; and a ...
." Actresses Gillian Anderson
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, Natalie Portman
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, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall
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and Tara Reid
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, MTV's Molly Sims
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, model Kate Moss, singers Beyoncé Knowles
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, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Janet Jackson, LeAnn Rimes and Britney Spears have been associated as propagators of the trend by ABC
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In France, clothing brands started creating the thong or ''le string'' in styles that encourage a projection above low-hung jeans, such as designs that had small jewels or luminous stars sewn into the "tail". In India
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, thongs peeked out of low-rise jeans in page three parties and university bashes. India
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n model Shefali Zariwala displayed a whale tail in the MTV Immies-winning music video "Kaanta Lagaa" and shot to fame and public debate in 2003. In Japan, clothing company Sanna's brought forward an extreme low-rise hip-hugging jeans design with built-in thong whale tails. R&B artist Sisqó
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rhapsodized about whale tails in his "Thong Song
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"[—"I like it when the beat goes da na da na/Baby make your booty go da na da na/Girl I know you wanna show da na da na/That thong thong thong thong." ]Pornographic
Pornography (often shortened to porn or porno) is the portrayal of sexual subject matter for the exclusive purpose of sexual arousal. Primarily intended for adults, film director Mike Metropolis made three films based on whale tails—''Whale Tail'' (2005), ''Whale Tail I'' (2005) and ''Whale Tail II'' (2006)—with Mark Ashley in the lead. Another movie titled ''Whale Tail: Thong Dreams'' was released in 2005 featuring Sunny Lane and Kirsten Price. In 2003, web content developer Gavin Hamilton created the site whale-tail.com with content featuring whale tail display. The domain name WhaleTail.com sold for $6,600 in October 2004. The website has been quoted by ABC Radio, ''NY Times
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'',[ '']FHM
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'' (UK) and ''Fuel Magazine'' (Australia), and has been nominated as a Best Adult Web Site by Australian Adult Industry Awards
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in 2008.
Legal debates
In 2004, Louisiana
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, USA
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State Representative Derrick Shepherd proposed a bill (HB1626), also known as the ''Baggy Pants Bill'' to Louisiana House of Representatives. The bill proposed that "it shall be unlawful for any person to appear in public wearing his pants below his waist and thereby exposing his skin or intimate clothing" and that violators would be subjected to three eight-hour days of community service and a fine of up to US$175. The measure died in the face of opposition from the American Civil Liberties Union
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. The bill was proposed again in 2008 and was rejected by a state Senate panel.[ In two Louisiana towns, Delcambre (a maximum penalty of US$615 fine or up to six months in prison) and ]Opelousas :''Opelousas is also a common name of the flathead catfish.''
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(a maximum penalty of US$500 fine or up to six months in prison), wearing low slung pants that reveal buttock cleavage or undergarments is considered a misdemeanor. Garments that reveal underpants were banned in four other Louisiana towns including Alexandria
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and Shreveport, where violators face fines of US$150 or 15 days in jail, as well as Hawkinsville, Georgia
Hawkinsville is a city in and the county seat of Pulaski County, Georgia, United States. The population was 4,589 at the 2010 census.
Hawkinsville is known as the "Harness Horse Capital" of Georgia. The Lawrence Bennett Harness Horse Racing f ...
.
In February 2005, the Senate Courts of Justice Committee of Virginia
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voted unanimously in a hastily convened meeting against a bill proposed by Delegate
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Algie T. Howell Jr. ( Norfolk, Virginia) to impose a US$50 fine on any person who publicly and intentionally "wears and displays his below-waist undergarments, intended to cover a person's intimate parts, in a lewd or indecent manner" in a public place. The bill (HB1981), also known as the ''Droopy Drawers Bill'', was earlier passed by Virginia House of Delegates
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by a 60–34 vote. Atlanta, GA, Dallas, TX, Baltimore, MD, Charlotte, NC, Yonkers, NY, Duncan, OK, Natchitoches, LA, Stratford, CT, Pine Bluff, AR, Trenton, NJ, Pleasantville, NJ, as well as three other Georgia
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towns, Rome
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, Brunswick and Plains
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have seen attempts to ban underwear peeking over the pants.[ School dress codes sometimes also banned some low-rising pants or visible underwear.]
Decline
The trend of wearing whale tail-revealing jeans started to dissipate somewhat in the mid-2000s when American clothing designers started shifting focus from low-slung jeans and exposed midriffs to high-waisted trousers and cardigans.[ Jess Cartner-Morley, fashion writer of '']The Guardian
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'', claimed that the whale tail and the muffin top (the bulge of flesh hanging over the top of low-rider jeans), "twin crimes of modern fashion", had led to the decline in the popularity of hipster jeans. She quoted Louise Hunn, editor of the British edition of ''InStyle
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'', as saying—"When a look goes too mainstream, people start wearing it badly. And then the really fashionable people run a mile". While the thong still represented 24% of the US$2.5 billion annual market in women's underwear, it stopped growing by end of 2004.[ Some vendors, including ]Victoria's Secret
Victoria's Secret is an American lingerie, clothing, and beauty retailer known for high visibility marketing and branding, starting with a popular catalog and followed by an annual fashion show with supermodels dubbed Angels. As the largest ...
and DKNY
DKNY is a New York City–based fashion house for men and women, founded in 1984 by Donna Karan.
History
Karan worked for 15 years at Anne Klein, including 10 as its head designer. In 1984 Karan and her late husband Stephan Weiss were offered t ...
, started selling thongs that do not result in whale tails. Adam Lippes, founder of the lingerie line ADAM, said, "Women got tired of it. And they got sick and tired of seeing string hanging out of the top of every celebrity's jeans."[
]
Resurgence
In 2019, publications including Vogue
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** ''Vogue Arabia'', an Arab fashion magazine
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and the Daily Record began referring to a revived interest in the trend, with influencers such as Kim Kardashian
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, Hailey Baldwin
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and Dua Lipa prominently wearing it.
Socio-cultural analysis
Attributing whale tails to mainstreaming of the sexualization
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of young women, '' The Santa Rosa, California Press Democrat'' termed the trend as " stripper chic". Post-modern
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thinker Yasmin Jiwani
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and co-writers described the trend in ''Girlhood: Redefining the Limits'' as an attempt to redefine girlhood while acknowledging the debate around it. The book termed the trend as the "slut" look popularized by Britney Spears. Some experts even dubbed visible whale tails as "thong feminism" for young girls. Other experts accused marketers of "outrageous selling of sex to children".
One conjecture assumes that the style of exposed thong may have "bubbled-up" from the street level to the high street
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s, like the jeans and t-shirt
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look of James Dean. Another assumes the fad was initiated by glamor model Jordan
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in England and singers Mariah Carey and Spears in the United States. The phenomenon has been compared to the phenomenon of visible bra
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straps. Saying that "just as Madonna made bras a public garment in the 1980s, Ms. Lewinsky, Paris Hilton
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and Britney Spears transformed women's panties into a provocative garment intended for public display", the New York Times claimed that the thong, with straps worn high over the hips and exposed by fashionable low-rise jeans and "Juicy Couture
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" sweat pants, had become a public icon.
Word of the year
"Whale tail" was selected in January 2006 as the "most creative word" of 2005 by the American Dialect Society
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, a group of linguists, editors, and academics. It received 44 votes to '' muffin top'' 25, ''flee-ancée'' (a reference to runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks) 15, and ''pinosaur'' (a very old Wollemi pine
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tree near Australia's Blue Mountains) 6.
While discussing these new coinages, Sali Tagliamonte, associate professor of linguistics at the University of Toronto
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, observed that young women in North America were ahead of young men as influencers. The use of the word to indicate an underwear phenomenon has shown up in serious mainstream news media, sometimes in reference to the pop stars who made the fashion trend popular.[ Wayne Glowka, member of the ]Georgia College and State University
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faculty and head of the New Word Committee of the Dialect Society, said about the happening, "Language is just going on its merry way, creating many new words. It's time for men to win something."
See also
* Buttock cleavage
* Camel toe
*Crop top
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* Muffin top
* Sagging
*Underwear as outerwear
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*Upskirt
Upskirting or upskirt photography is the practice of taking nonconsensual photographs under a person's skirt or kilt, capturing an image of the crotch area, underwear, and sometimes genitalia. An "upskirt" is a photograph, video, or illustrati ...
*Wardrobe malfunction
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References
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