Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Open any fashion magazine and you're bound to find a full-page layout of some super-skinny woman, or muscle-rippling man clad in only the bare minimum. According to these magazines, it's no longer be fashionable to wear the flower-or paisley-print underwear that comes in a six pack. Underwear has fallen into the same label-conscious category of jeans; most of them look the same, but everyone wants to have the right name stitched across their waist...
...invention, designed to alleviate the problem of VPL (visible panty line to novices). In the 70's when tight polyester was the rage, the commonly worn granny underwear, which cuts into the tops of your legs, would leave a line that was noticeable from several feet away, a big fashion faux pas. High cut underwear was the start of a solution to this problem, and eventually the thong eradicated the problem completely...
Even if your underwear drawer is currently filled with white cotton panties (or banana-hammocks, for you male readers), there's no need to panic. Although fashion magazines stress the importance of a stylish pair of underwear, when you're up close and personal, few people care what kind of undies you wear, as long as they're clean...
...close friend and collaborator Marc Postman, of the Space Telescope Science Institute, in Baltimore, Maryland, announced the results of a telescopic study they had been working on for more than a year. The young scientists reached the astonishing conclusion that rather than expanding outward in a stately fashion like the rest of the universe, a collection of many thousands of galaxies, including our own and spanning a billion light-years or so, may be speeding en masse toward a point somewhere in the direction of the constellation Virgo...
...example, the former employee said themodels at Julian's last fashion show had not beenpaid. "No model will ever work for him againunless those debts are paid," the executive said...