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Throw Out Your Slips, Grandmas — It’s Time To Show Your Ass!
Or your breasts — take your pick
I was the last woman in the world to still have a drawer full of slips. I discarded most of them a while ago, but had kept one half-slip.
Surely, I thought, a woman should have at least one, right? We have all had that one dress so transparent that walking by a light reveals whether we’re waxing aficionados or not. And when we wore that dress, we made sure to wear a slip.
Not now. Now, wearing a slip as a skirt is the only way you’re supposed to wear one, and I honestly cannot see myself trotting out in the boring beige slip that I probably bought for $15.99 at JCPenney 15 years ago.
So I guess I can throw it out. All my efforts to conceal my bits were overkill, because now, you see, see-through clothes are in.
You don’t need to buy new clothes, you just need to take off a layer.
Want a fresh look? At one time, you might have bought a new shirt, but now you can just take your shirt off and give your bra a promotion from underwear to outerwear.
All kinds of former underthings are now regular clothes. As I mentioned, if you’re going to wear a slip, fashion…