The British Thong Society: Thong Show

Friday, June 9, 2006

Thong Show

Margaret Royce has emailed us to ask that we help promote her display of West Country thongs which she'll be putting on show at East Lowstead Church Hall on March 14th. As you might know, Margaret has been collecting thongs for nearly fifty years and currently owns a collection of 700. The display covers the pre-war years and will be a rare opportunity for thong lovers to inspect a 1931 g-string thought to have been owned by Bix Beiderbecke.

Tickets are priced at 50p with the proceeds going to the Society's appeal to help send thongs to Africa.

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Our Founder

Sir Henry Peel was one of the greatest minds of the late Victorian age. He was an explorer, discovering some of the remotest tribes of South America, and travelled widely in the East, including China and Japan where he was one of the earliest Europeans to adopt the wearing of the fundoshi.

Returning to England, Sir Henry became a philanthropist, eventually setting up The British Thong Society.

His death in 1927 was one of the widely reported events of the decade. Each year at the small family church in Knots End, Surrey, members of the British Thong Society lay a commemorative thong on his grave to mark the very great things Sir Henry achieved and our abiding loyalty to his legacy.