Well, just in time – the sale is on at LoveFifi. I received the email yesterday that informed me that Fifi’s personalized panties are now on sale. Here is an excerpt from Fifi’s email:

“Communication is the most important thing in a relationship. You must always say what you mean and express yourself to the one you love.

Chocolates and roses are nice and all, but we think you should tell that special someone how you feel in a very special way.

Our best personalized panties are on SALE. These styles come in both regular and PLUS sizes … We’ve got all you girls covered.”

Communication through underwear…hmmmm. As if your choice of underwear type did not say enough about you. I guess the truly thoughtful go the extra step to communicate on their underwear.  Is this the new frontier in communication?

I fancy myself to be a “communicator” and I am willing to do what it takes to communicate at the highest level, but doing so on my underwear requires some thought as there is obviously a word limit. I don’t fare well with word limits and I can’t imagine you would want to get cut off mid-sentence on your underwear. But I guess, if I thought about it long and hard before the fact I could concisely say what I mean and express myself on my underwear…particularly if I could use both sides. I could just put (over) at the end of one side so the reader would know there is something on the other side.

The question is what to communicate?  Also, what size print should I use? You don’t want to go too small – the visual of someone needing to grab their reading glasses to be able to read your underwear communication just seems wrong. Probably don’t want to go too big either as then it will have the same magnifying effect on your visual size as big prints on fabric do…your underwear should not make you look heavier (albeit, there is not much creative clothing camouflage going on by the time you get down to that layer).

In the few moments I was pondering the things I might caringly communicate on my underwear that were 100 words or less I came up with a few dozen things I might say. I won’t share those things here as that might diminish the impact of sharing them so intimately on my underwear.

Having completed the mental exercise of what I would say and in what font size I decided it was time to look at my color and design options at LoveFifi. Oh my…they did not have quite the style I was envisioning. The word limit will have to be decreased both based on the size of the canvas available and the personalization limitations imposed by LoveFifi – 12 letters or numbers including spaces. How can LoveFifi even call this “communication” – 12 letters or numbers including spaces? That is barely a word or two, depending on how prolific your vocabulary is.

Really Fifi? Where did you acquire your notion of communication? The only way that 12 letters or numbers including spaces is adequate to communicate is if the pair of underwear already speaks volumes prior to the written words. Oh wait, they do speak volumes (what little there is of them) – none of which require lots of words, but they will definitely communicate with the one you love. I guess the question then becomes, with underwear like those – who needs words?

Day two hundred and one of the new forty – obla di obla da

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