More Fallout on the Spanx/VPL Front

From the WSJ:

Pardon Me, Your Slip Is Not Showing
Petticoats Head for Extinction In Today's Immodest Era; Transparent Looks for FallJuly 24, 2008; Page D6
Bridget Brennan has a drawer full of slips that "are celebrating at least a decade of being stuffed in the back of the same drawer." Ms. Brennan, the 42-year-old founder of Female Factor Corp., a Chicago consulting firm, says the slip has become irrelevant to her life.
When did we give the slip the slip? Once de rigueur, slips have disappeared from our culture to such an extent that when I put in a call to designer Nanette Lepore about them, she told an assistant, "I have never worn a slip in my life."
The slip -- once an all-purpose weapon against visible panty lines and sheer, clingy dresses -- has lost its usefulness for several reasons. One is technological. Thong panties and shape-squeezing Spanx undergarments dispense with unsightly panty lines. But the real truth, I believe, is that the end of slips coincides with a diminished sense of modesty. Our social mores no longer conform to a world where nice girls wear skirts that don't cling.