Hip-T: Extremely Useful Or Extremely Useless?

On Thursday afternoon, my roommate and I were watching TV in the living room when we randomly stumbled upon an advertisement for “Hip-T”.

Hip-T is a piece of fabric that women can wear around their waist over their pants. The advertisement explained that Hip-T is the solution to a big problem that women face: they are embarrassed to bend or sit down because their pants are pulled downwards, exposing their underwear. Hip-T promises to make women confident and comfortable since the fabric covers their waist, while being small and not actually adding another “bulky” layer underneath their clothes.

When the ad was over, both my roommate and I started laughing, because we really found Hip-T to be a useless and unnecessary product. Sure, exposure of our underwear is annoying, and it is clever of the Hip-T’s creators to think of a way to make women’s lives easier. But is it really worth to spend at least $ 8.95 in order to solve a problem that could be solved in so many other ways (wearing a long shirt, a belt, or pants that actually fit)? And is underwear exposure really such a big problem, one that is worth to waste extra natural resources for? I don’t think so. I think that as a society, we need to reevaluate our priorities of which products we actually need and which products are a complete waste of money and resources.

(All information is taken from http://www.myhip-t.com/)