Please don’t tell me G-strings are making a comeback

OPINION

THE greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing women that G-strings are comfortable to wear.

It began, the way so many trends do, with a Kim Kardashian post on Instagram. I hesitate to call it a “selfie” because, frankly, I’m not sure you can take a photo of your own bum from such an angle yourself.

Still, there it was, underneath her lemon yellow athleisure two-piece: an old-school G-string, poking out over her leggings, and then up over the hips, in the style of late 1990s pop stars and dilettantes. A “whale tail”. The only thing missing was the lower back Celtic tattoo.

The ’90s aesthetic was no accident — the G-string itself was from Tom Ford’s 1997 collection for Gucci, no doubt languishing away in a closet somewhere before being plucked into prominence by KKW. Which is to say, it was not the modified lace ones we see today. This was full-blown, almost literal string with a Gucci emblem redolent of the NeverEnding Story snake talisman.

Fine! So what? So Kim is wearing a G-string? It doesn’t mean the world will.

But then she kept posting them.

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