cookiegirl

I don't see anything about it on johndigweed.com, but it's hardly ever updated ( ) so that means nothing.

torontostar.com Feb. 27, 2003. Printed panty skirts revealed as a hoax You'd think people just wouldn't buy into a prank as transparent as see-through skirts. But buy they did, or at least they tried. Images of skirts purportedly printed to look a whole lot more breezy than they are have been widely e-mailed, written about online and the subject of at least one newspaper story in recent weeks. They have become the latest trend that never was. "They (the pictures) are quite common in Japan. There are a lot of cheap porno magazines that use them," Kjeld Duits, 43, says in an interview from Ashia, near Osaka, Japan, where he works as a journalist and runs a street fashion/trend Web site called japanesestreets.com. "The only time you see these scenes are in photographs in porno magazines. There's nothing like this in the street," Duits says. The magazines use a computer graphics program to combine the image of a skirted woman with another wearing just underwear. The end result looks as if the skirt is see-through. According to Duits, the magazines will usually claim to have taken the pictures using a special camera lens that allows them to shoot through clothes. The pictures popped up in e-mails in Canada in their non-porno context accompanied by the following message: "What you see below are not see-through skirts. They are actually prints on the skirts to make it look as if the panties are visible and are the current rage in Japan." That explanation was evidently enough for the Sunday Mail newspaper in Queensland, Australia, to run a story headlined, "A Cheeky Skirt" that claimed the garments were all the rage in Tokyo. Adding confusion among fashion followers are several eye-popping precedents, notably by Britain's Vivienne Westwood and France's Jean Paul Gaultier. Westwood is famous for printing nipples and pubic hair on fleshtone catsuits while Gaultier's repertoire includes trompe l'oeil T-shirts with rippling abs for men. Snopes.com, a Web site dedicated to picking apart doctored images and other urban legends, had this to say about the Japanese hoax: "We have yet to find a Japanese source ... containing information about — or even mention of — these supposed `see-through' skirts," the Web site says. "In all the example photographs provided ... the images of the panties line up perfectly with the actual positioning of the skirt-wearers' derrieres and legs, indicating at the very least that these pictures were very carefully posed," according to snopes.com. Duits agrees. "It's very obvious that they are not printed." An enlargement of one of the images shows the curves of the woman's bottom extending through the strap of her handbag. The knuckle portion of the woman's index finger is also cut off. Both suggest that the image was altered. Duits says dozens of people wanting to import the skirts have approached him for a connection to the manufacturer. That's left him the task of explaining that the skirts don't exist, not even as a kink item. "I get so many e-mails from all over the world," he says.

what are you talking about?

???

Is anyone else coming to this?

I'm gonna hold out til Friday - payday.

it's a hoax - total b.s.

OMG! Priceless!

PS - continue w/ the pdiddy pics!

I do have to give him that! Sorry I am slightly defensive of my future husband

what, this?

I second that

College déjà vu!!!!

Superstar "No DnB" Krish DJ Unique??

Anytime.

I don't get your sig: Is PPTT your DJ name?

you guys really brighten up my day I would definitely be down for this in a couple weeks -- everything's kinda nutty for my next few saturdays.

rockyblue vicman

:laugh: the look on that smilie's face is priceless