London - December 28, 2005

Best of 2005: Our Wish Is Your Commando

Commando Invisible Underwear

Hear that? It’s the tune of 2006. Before we dive in, a shout-out to our favorites from 2005. Feel free to hum along.

Originally published 8/16/05

We interrupt our regular schedule to bring you an important announcement: we can see your underwear.

Yes. You have a VPL. You thought out of sight meant out of mind. You were wrong.

It’s time to go Commando. Not literally, of course. Commando is a genius new line of precision-cut underwear made from a patented fabric that renders knicker lines invisible. Available in black, nude, dark nude and white thongs and shorts, these feel like silky, stretchy opaque tights and slide on like a second skin.

No more butt cheeks sliced in half by demi briefs. (Squeezing two buttocks into tight white jeans is bad enough, but four is simply careless). No more granny pants flattening your bottom so as to make your thighs protrude like small handbags. Commando panties are so undetectable, observers will think you are wearing nothing at all.

Let them.

You’ll be doing the whole nation a service.

Available at VPL, 61a Ledbury Road, W11 (020 7221 6644); Coco Ribbon, 133 Sloane Street, SW1 (020 7730 8555); or online at hqhair.com. To see styles, go to commandointimates.com.

Fancy dressing up some more? Here are a few other groovy bits from 2005:

Bootie Call
Woolenstocks Booties

Sisters of Mercy
Ginger & Smart

Winging It
Angel Jackson Bags and Accessories