So I have started knitting what I hope to be a lovely lacy mo-hair shawl.

I’m just using Patons lace yarn, which isn’t super pricey and knit’s rather nicely. But will hold up better with frogging a few times better than the reeeeally nice dark gray alpaca I bought.
I’m also working beads into it. I love knitting with beads. I have no idea why, it’s a pain in the rear really. I have to hook each one on a tiny crochet hook and place it on the right stitch in the pattern. I’ve done it before by stringing them on the yarn ahead of time, but the mo-hairs fuzz gets stuck in the beads and bunches up.  Not pretty.

So I play with it for a few days and proudly hold it up to my partner and he asks
“Is it a thong?”
me- “……………”
him-“you know, the front part?”

I am pretty used to this as someone who has made things all her life. But still a thong? Yeah, it’s a triangle, but I’m starting from the bottom tip.

So I shared it with some more friends and the terms bikini and underwear followed.
These are my friends.

I have since added a couple of inches, I’m struggling with how complicated to make this thing. My partner still thinks it will make a nice undergarment. He very nicely modeled it as loin cloth (over his clothes) for us.
Now I’m trying to come up with names for  the pattern and all I can think is “what is a fancy word for man-thong”.
I googled loincloth, because why not  and have found  pareu and  intimate things.

Huh.