STRAPLESS PANTIES are here!

*Warning: PIRATE RADIO presentation*

CHEEKY: The Shibue Couture strapless pant might be the smallest underwear EVER

Bridget Jones famously chose granny pants, but today women are opting for barely there C-strings and even strapless knickers.

Underwear fashions are constantly changing but more and more women are choosing smaller and more desecrate lingerie.

In fact, in the last 15 years undies have downsized from granny pants to postage-stamp sized scraps of fabric.

And many celebs have even been caught going commando to avoid the dreaded visible panty line.

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In the Nineties fear of VPL teamed with Sisquo's Thong Song saw women everywhere reaching for dental-floss thin G-strings.

Then in the Naughties, a new trend emerged as Bridget Jones picked a pair of enormous bum-controlling knickers to seduce Hugh Grant's Daniel Cleaver.

This prompted sales of the big pant, and Spanx also saw a resurgence recently after Kim Kardashian revealed she was a big fan.

But the larger pant didn't last long and soon the G-string's slutter sister the C-string was born. 

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Billed as the future of lingerie, it is essentially a strip of fabric that sits in between your legs and is held in place by a wire "tail".

The idea is that you pop it on and it stays put. Think of it as a headband for your groin.

They also do a men's version so you and your partner can get his and hers matching strings.

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OUCH: The new C-string is the G-string's sluttier sister

But if these are too dowdy for you there is now an even tinier underwear option - the Shibue Couture strapless pant.

Supermodels Kate Upton and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley are big fans of the plaster-sized panties.

The cast of Fifty Shades Of Grey also wore them during filming and they have even taken the catwalk by storm.

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BARELY THERE: The Shibue Couture strapless pant is like a fabric plaster for you groin

But are they really a practical new solution for the modern woman?

The "non-line strapless panty" is essentially a fabric sticker for down there.

It is one stage away from going knicker-free, but helps you avoid any embarrassing accidental flashes.

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And if you need to go to the toilet you can simple peel it off at one end and then stick it back on again when you've finished.

We wait with bated breath for the next stage in skimpy lingerie - get ready to go commando...