The “Whale Tail” (update: dec 22, 2008)
It’s a good thing I am now at an age when I can no longer wear too-superlow hip hugger jeans without the villagers showing up at my doorstep with torches. (the fight usually breaks out because they have to compete with the other group of angry villagers who are there at my doorstep every night with torches.)
But I recently heard a term paired with the fashion of ultra low riding jeans. “Whale-Tail.”
I didn’t know what it meant, so I googled it, and I got this:
“An unintentional display of a thong etc above the waistband of hip-huggers, or low-rider jeans.”
Refusing to leave well alone, I typed in “etymology” and “whale tail.”
And it’s true what they say: you learn something everyday.
(note: aren’t those plaid curtains just darling?)
You were showing a bit of whale tail when you were down here. I remember thinking the thong (or whatever it was) looked terribly uncomfortable.