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Throw Out Your Slips, Grandmas — It’s Time To Show Your Ass!

Or your breasts — take your pick

Michelle Teheux
6 min readNov 3, 2022

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This lady, I believe, is likely on her way to a funeral. Photo by H.F.E & Co Studio on Unsplash

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…

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Michelle Teheux
Michelle Teheux

Written by Michelle Teheux

Lover of literature. Former newspaper editor. Fascinated by everything. Contact: michelleteheux@gmail.com. To buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/michelleteheux

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