She pulls her blouse down over the bra strap, showing me where.
"When I was growing up, it was thought to be unbelievably sluttish to even have a bra strap showing," Mirren said.
There she was, clinging to a chimney with her bra strap showing, and all anyone did was wonder if she had a dog.
A few years ago, Time magazine reported that 40% of American high school girls wear thongs to school, a great many with the underwear strap showing above their jeans.
I'm tall so I have a lot of my dresses made, which I think can come off as a little stuffy so I always keep something amiss; a homemade up-do, a bra strap showing, or scuffed flats.
And at one point I told the costume designer, 'You can see my bra strap in this top; shouldn't we pin it?' And she said, 'No, sweetie — Nicki is all about her bra strap showing.' I was like, right, OK, different mind-set".
The strap showing on the exposed shoulder looks great.
In a world where Britney promises that she'll be a "Slave 4 U," middle-school girls wear low-riders so low their thong straps show, and fourth graders are "dating," it's little wonder kids are beginning to have sex -- including, Dr. Hutcherson said, oral and even anal sex -- at very young ages.
We could let the straps show -- a look every woman in my mother's bridge club would tell you is universal code for "cheap, tacky skank".
