Peel Memorial Service

Today in Knots End, Surrey, members of the British Thong Society will be laying a commemorative thong on the grave of Sir Henry Peel, founder of the BTS. This year's thong has been kindly provided by Mrs. Joan Karlin, who hand stitched Sir Henry's profile onto the silk pouch.

The service will be followed by a ball, in Sir Henry's honour, in the family home, led by a 'thong orchestra'.

Good Luck Herietta!

Henrietta Tarbuck has started her sponsored trek from Land's End, today. Herietta has taken up the challenge as part of the Society's campaign to stamp out thong ignorance in Africa. Wearing only a thong and a digital watch, Herietta hopes to complete the marathon walk in three weeks. Accompanying her on the journey is her father, Terry, who will be following every inch of the way on a bicycle. Unlike his daughter, Terry has admitted that he will be wearing a normal pair of Y fronts.

'I'd be more than happy to support the cause of the thong,' he said, ' but the doctor has warned me against chafing due to a recent operation.'

UPDATE: An Evening With English Thongs

Can we just inform members that there was a typing mistake in the last newsletter. Mrs. Rose's 'Evening with English Thongs' is not taking place on the 24th of January, but the evening of the 25th. We apologize for our mistake.

For those of you who don't get this message, Mrs. Rose has kindly agreed to be at the church hall on the 24th, with her collection of thongs.

Press Release

Recent promotion of novelty thongs in the UK has been drawn to the attention of the British Thong Society. It is clear that the display of this kind of underwear can be detrimental to the long term goals of our society. Although the Society works hard to educate the country as to the healthy benefits to be had by wearing thongs, it is clear that much work has yet to be done to bring thong wearing into the mainstream of British society.

Accordingly, the executive committee of the British Thong Society is today issuing a press release. in relation to the manufacture of comedy thongs.

It reads:

Members of the British Thong Society would like to make it clear that we condone the wearing of comedy thongs. It is the long held view of the Society that publicity relating to thongs in the shape of chickens, snakes, and hairy lemmings, does not accurately represent the views of sensible thong wears in the UK.

Furthermore. In our fight to get the thong recognised as a sensible underwear, we do not think it right to promote, sell, or manufacture items of clothing that do not further that aim. We would like out membership to boycott these novelty thongs and to encourage their friends and family to do likewise. Thongs have been long known to have many medical benefits and reducing them to the things of cheap and vulgar jokes does nothing but mock wearers everywhere.

New Year

A new year and plenty of exciting things in prospect for the BTS. We're got some excellent social events for your new BTS diaries -- they should arrive with you with in the week -- and some fascinating talks in our ongoing lecture series.

Check out the BTS newsletter and for updates here on the blog. If all goes well, we also hope to have the new British Thong Society website up and running at some point in the year.