Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Pata Palaver

Una moring o!

That's how Honey Dame decided that my hibernation must end and I should resume blogging like a human being. Ok ma, I have answered the clarion call. How far folks? Y'all good? The usual excuses about why I haven't been blogging, apply. Thank you. So I don't have a lot of gist for you today. I only really have some questions. 

Here goes. 

When I was about 15, I got my first thong; a peach, silk affair, from my then best friend JA for my birthday. Since then, I have been a slave to what my mother calls 'pata olokun'. At 15, a thong was a rite of passage. It was one of those things that you got that just made you feel like a real grown up. JA was the first teenager I knew that wore thongs because she had an older sister who had preached to her about the evils of the Visible Panty Line (VPL). So, JA regurgitated the sermon on the mount to me and I got home and looked at all my colourful cotton panties with their prominent seams with disgust, wondering if they knew that they were disgracing me in public. So imagine my delight when I got my first thong. I cherished that peach confection of silk. It was the saviour for my toosh. It would keep me from being scorned in the assembly of women in the know. More importantly, I was saved from the VPL scourge. By the time I decided to retire it, I had worn the threads out of it, fa! 
http://domesouvenirsplus.com/ (My peach thong looked exactly like these ones!) 

The years went by and I acquired more and more thongs (which eventually became known as G-string) and the occasional full panties here and there. I endured my mother's curiosity and scorn about the thong, usually heralded by the question "she pata na le l'eyi bayi? Gbogbo idi e lo wa ni ita yi. O ti wo pata bayi sha?" is this one too pant? You entire bum is exposed. So you believe that you've worn pant? I tried to explain the benefit of the thong to my mother but she stays waving me away. Don't mind her, she's from the 'druss' era.

So my love for the thong continued till date. This post is not even really about the thong but about the derision I have for full panties with seams. I didn't know how bad it was till very recently. Lately, I've been lazy with my pant washing (please, please please, don't judge me jare. There but for the grace of God and washing machine, go most of you!!! ) so gradually, I've used up my stack of thongs and I now have to start on my full panties in the back, back, back of the drawer. I can't tell you how miserable I've been. The other day, I walked past a glass door and I stopped in my tracks, almost causing a human pile up at the entrance of my office. What caused the braking? I saw a panty line PROTRUDING from beneath my trousers. My jacket was too short to hide it. I almost felt like taking off my jacket and tying it round my waist like we did when we got 'stained' in secondary school. I then began to think about it...why was I ashamed that I was basically...wearing pant?? Evidently, that's what it bored down to...I was ashamed to be wearing a full pant. When did I become this person who is revolted by the thought of a pair of knickers lovingly enfolding the entirety of her bum? I would apparently much rather have a string up the crack of my ass.  I know when the conditioning started, what I am not sure of is when it took such solid root.

So, I'm throwing it open to the house. Is the VPL such a terrible thing? Why is there a race to eradicate it? All it evinces is that we have on knickers...nothing more...so why is it so hated? Does it denote any thing else to you? Maybe the wearer is a sloppy dresser etc? There's all sorts of things to wear or not wear these days instead of a full panty; seamless knickers, boy shorts, c-thongs, thongs, going commando...anything seems to be better than having a VPL? Is it just the aesthetics or is there more to the annihilation of the panties that cause VPL? Also on the thong/g-string front, do you like them? Do you find them comfortable or wear them due to societal pressures? 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Visible_Panty_Line_underneath_black_seamless_leggings.jpg
Gentlemen that read the bog, please weigh in. Do you find this offensive? If so why? Would it deter you from striking up a conversation with a woman? 

 Kindly discuss and enjoy the rest of your week.


20 comments:

  1. LMAAAOOOOOOOOOO...I thank God for your life, Sister Cherry! Amean, lookachew, you updated without being pulled by your hair!

    See, this is kind of opposite of my reality. Yes, I have worn thongs a couple of times, but I find them uncomfortable. I always felt the need to dig out the string swallowed in the crevices of the butt cheeks, like, you shouldnt be there, dammit! Also, the surface area for the labia area is always seemingly too small that I wonder why I should even bother wearing a pant at all, if my only option is a thong.

    Maybe I am desensitized to seeing my VPL. Maybe some are more/less conspicuous than others. Some full pants have less VPLs than others and I guess maybe I naturally gravitate towards those ones for when I have to wear form fitting clothes.

    But like you rightly said, VPL only to a very large extent, tells a tale that "CherryWine is wearing a pant....like a normal human being should do!"
    But that little line of tardiness also exists! a comme ci, comme ca VPL may be forgiveable....but something looking like a roll-up of chinchin dough along the butt area is just unsightly! You might as well wear the pata on the outside!

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    1. Feel free too go commando ni tie and cause many to fall to their deaths, sho gbo

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    2. Bwahahahaha Toin is a case!!!!!!

      @HD: I was going to comment on....ahem....the butt swallowing the thong....vis-a-vis wondering whether this was the fault of the butt or the thong. But because it is "hearsay" gist, I will refrain from commenting. Madam HD, you took us to school on material to labia ratio fa! But I get the fact that it depends on the pant and those with a tendency to bunch up are more offensive than the good ol' VPL.

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  2. I honestly dont mind seeing pant lines. I feel any type way when i see them unless one rides up waayyy higher than the other, then it looks weird but then again, that might be the OCD part of me wanting to have the pant properly aligned.
    In my case, boy shorts for the win.

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    1. If it were an option of boyshorts over regular pant, boyshorts for the win, most def. You, like HD , seem to be averse to the bunching up and not the VPL. My own OCD extends to the VPL. I now have to teach myself to not be so finicky!

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  3. G-strings!!!!!???? me no like..those things always hurt my butt mehn...don't even get me started on the thousand times i have to pull it out of my butt crack and its even more embarrassing when it's in public.....there are briefs you can wear that won't show the VPL...CherryWine i don't know how you feel comfy with G-strings tho but nah mehn i know they were not made for me..

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    1. I seriously don't get it when people say g-strings hurt their butts. The stringier, the better sef. Lol. Lol. Why are you pulling strings in public now, Chantel? Why?? Lool.

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  4. Hahaha, I died from reading this.
    I'm a guy, and tbh I don't have issues with the VPL, unless it's super obvious. I don't find it unappealing, let's just say I like subtleness. As for the strings, no issues with them, since I'm not the one putting it on.
    I will choose that ahead of butt crack being exposed.

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    1. Thank you for giving the male perspective. It seems no one has any real problems with the VPL. So it's all in my head. Lmao at you are not the one putting it on. There are some for guys too, so don't get smug! Additionally, the point of the thong may not be to expose the butt crack, but it doesn't "exactly" cover it too. Lol. Thanks for reading and commenting.

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  5. LMAO, i went through similar at that age. When i bought my first thong (in fact when i mentioned wanting to buy my first thong), my mothers response was from now on you underwear shop alone because she wanted nothing to do with it lol. Like Toin, im only uncomfortable with VPL when its entering into wedgie zone and one side is higher/lower than the other.

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    1. Bwahahahaha...mothers! The look of horror on my mother's face anytime she walks in on me in one of those, is always priceless. Thanks for the comment hun, it's been a minute!

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  6. Welcome back!
    I hate hate hate hate VPL! Even some thongs under some fabrics still show VPL! Even some boy shorts still show VPL! So my newest best friend especially under dresses are spanx( or cyclers as we used to call them back in the day) and I love them, but sha be careful of the VSL around the thighs.

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    1. Lol at VSL. It seems lines are simply unavoidable in the female dressing. I got some cheap spanx once from primark, i think I threw them away in annoyance. They start to roll up my thighs after about an hour of being worn! so you see a think, as HD put it, chinchin dough line. I was beyond pissed!!! Thanks for commenting Nene.

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  7. Hia so if we no see VPL e mean say e possible say she wear pata olokun, I been de always look am say maybe dem no wear pata fa. Hmmm Cherry this na better expose. I really don't care anyways what matters is the hygienic condition of the private part so pata nla, olokun, bum short, boxers etc as long as e clean though I guess the seamless look is the whole aim. The one that gets my goat is when a lady's boot is open, those days of low waist everything that left ladies boot exposed were crazy.
    P.S. Honey Dame thank you for giving Cherry her groove back.

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  8. I think VPL draws more attention to the bum (I'm guessing attention to the bum is what people are gunning for these days). I don't like VPL, it gives the people away as sloppy dressers.

    My my calls thongs Pata omo awon alaigboran (Stubborn girls' pants), lol.

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    1. I think it depends on the way you look at it sha. If you're wearing a thong or a full panty with atight outfit, either ways, you draw attention to the bum. It jiggles with a thong and you see the lines with a full panty. I think that's why I don't like the VPL either: it just looks sloppy. It doesn't keep your private business-private, in a manner of speaking. I almost died laughing at pata awon omo alaigboran!!!!!!!! Mothers!!!!!Thanks for reading and commenting babes!

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  9. Hahahaha!!! Best post off blog rounds tonight! Thongs it is! Somehow full-on pants seem to identify with post menupausal older women these days...Not to talk about the appeal that thongs do to a well rounded bum in motion....and the ectasy of sliding it to a side during those heated moments....could go on and on...but thongs it is.....seeing pant lines are not sexy in any way. If thongs don't work, I'm sure there are other options that don't involve pantline exhibitions.

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    1. I guess it is safe to say you are the thong's numero uno fan. Loool. Ehmmm but...what heated moments? What ecstasy? Pray tell. I guess there's a clean divide between those that mind the VPL and those who don't. Thanks for reading and commenting

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  10. I don't like VPLs. Sometimes it might just be a small line here and there not the full outline but some other times it's the whole outline of the panties like a map. It makes me cringggg..
    I also don't like thongs that much. I used to be uncomfortable with the something in the middle consciousness. But that's history. They however are savers when wearing some fabrics/outfits.
    A fair mix of thongs and seamless full panties should do.

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