Vagina is in right now. Not in the Janet Jackson “You wanna smell my punani?” kind of way that it’s always been since God made woman, but in as in it’s a fashion trend.
Labia cleavage is what I call the new look sweeping through bathing suit designs (not to mention pudendal clefts) like wildfire these days. It’s the trend that makes high-leg bikini bottoms look like the swimwear version of mom jeans and, let IG tell it, it’s here to stay.
As these things usually go, celebs were among some of the first to let their other set of lips show in revealing swimwear, and slowly but surely the trend became commonplace among your average college student, RN, and neighborhood grocer who can now be seen sporting a one piece that leaves nothing but one’s clitoris to the imagination. And honestly, my opinion on that is mixed. Not that anyone asked for it, but I’m going to give it anyway.
For instance, Nene worked the hell out of Tammy Rivera’s swimsuit line early this spring when she gave just a tease of labial fold in the pic below and even Tammy herself makes you want to get in the gym and buy a lifetime supply of fake flat tummy detox teas if that’s what it’ll take to look like that in one of her designs.
But on a practicality level, my mind can’t help but wonder how does one move, let alone swim, in such a design? I know, I know these swimsuits aren’t about swimming they’re about looking cute, but again how does one walk without indecently exposing their entire nether regions? And the maintenance? You got to have a fresh wax with this — like not a stray pube in site from the rooter to the tooter. A Brazilian once per month is about all I can take. What’s the upkeep required to have all this flesh on display? And are we letting women try these suits on in retail stores ‘cuz no amount of plastic panty liner protection will stop germs that close to a woman’s insides from bouncing from one vajayjay to the next.
Something inside me (that’s not a string of fabric) wants to say if you got it flaunt it, but that’s just because I can’t think of any other non-cliché way to wrap this post up. Plus I remembered every woman’s got vagina lips and, if I’m being 100% non-shamingly honest (since everything is considered shaming now) I don’t want them to flaunt it on the beach, on the ‘gram, pretty much anywhere outside the house that involves my eyes. These ladies look great, but what’s good for the goose isn’t always good for the gander. Ooops another cliché.
What do you think of the labia cleavage trend?
