You need the limbs of Elle Macpherson to carry this look off. Once I have struggled into it I glance in the mirror and am horrified. While the C-string consists of less material than a gnat’s handkerchief, it is not easy to get on being so springy and slight. 'There’s no room for Noddy to live,' I explain. Most pants in our house have Noddy on them. My two-year-old son Archie wanders into the study and his eyes light up. It doesn’t look big enough for a child’s bottom, never mind one Then I dangle the C-string thoughtfully from my finger. I receive my consignment by post in a minute envelope. However, I have agreed to road test the C-string for a week. But then, after two children, I feel racy wearing a coloured bra.

The beach wearing full ski-gear than wear a skimpy headband as a part of bikini bottoms. The manufacturers suggest that you wear it with outfits that might show a panty line, or even as swimwear so that you don’t get tan lines across your bottom. Think of an unevenly shaped wired headband, and you’re half-way there - the name derives from the C shape. The idea is that you pop it on, and it stays put. The C-string consists of the front part of a thong-style pair of knickers, held up with a little bit of wire at the back. If you’re an ordinary-shaped person, that’s one out of three, and it ain’t the first two. According the promotional blurb, it is 'sexy, elegant and completely unique'. That’s what happens on my first day wearing the 'C-String', a bad dream in underwear form. But it’s not because of my blonde hair: it’s because I look as if I forgot to put on any underwear that morning. I am walkingĭown the road pushing a buggy when I have toĪ passing van driver leers at me and then beeps his horn.

G string try on