

The stripper's G-string is another influence and has been an important part of the striptease artist's-or, more latterly, lap dancer's-wardrobe since the 1950s, when the taboo of displaying the vagina or any degree of pubic hair was paramount.

This tiny bikini-dubbed the fio denta, or dental floss-ensured that the buttocks achieved maximum exposure to the sun and openly displayed an erogenous zone that was a particular favorite in Latino culture. Its sources are manifold the thong bikini designed by Rudi Gernreich in 1974, launched with a matching Vidal Sassoon hairstyle, is one which in turn spawned the more popular Brazilian string bikini brief, or tanga, of the late 1970s.

The G-string, or thong, a panty front with a half- to one-inch strip of fabric at the back that sits between the buttocks, became one of the most popular forms of female underwear in the early twenty-first century.
