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The G-String, called “the ultimate triangle” by semiotician and fashion theorist Roland Barthes, has a dazzling history going back to ancient cultures in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Learn how this tiny garment and its cousins, the thong and the loincloth, served artists, athletes, and warriors before becoming the symbol of the stripteaser; how it has appeared in literature high and low; and how it evolves to both reflect and influence culture and the ways in which various bodies are perceived, celebrated, censured, and policed. From the decent to the indecent, from the vulgar to the divine, the g-string has always simultaneously revealed and concealed more than meets the eye.

Jo Weldon is the author of The Burlesque Handbook and Fierce: The History of Leopard Print (both, HarperCollins). She has been performing burlesque, creating burlesque costumes, and teaching burlesque costuming for three decades. She has been a team member at the Burlesque Hall of Fame and BurlyCon since 2004. Her work has been featured in The Village Voice, The Financial Times, The Guardian, and The New York Times. She is currently a scholar in residence at the New York Public Library’s Center for Research in the Humanities, studying the intersections of sex work, fashion, and culture through literature, film, and visual art.