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The [[American burlesque]] entertainer [[Gypsy Rose Lee]] is popularly associated with the G-string.<ref name=Quinn>{{cite book|title=Mama Rose's Turn: The True Story of America's Most Notorious Stage Mother|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JRacAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA239|author=Carolyn Quinn|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|year=2013|isbn=9781617038532|page=239}}</ref> Her [[striptease]] performances often included the wearing of a G-string; in a memoir written by her son Erik Lee Preminger she is described as gluing on a black lace G-string with [[spirit gum]] in preparation for a performance.<ref name=Preminger/>

By the late 1980s G-strings had become widely available in the [[Western world]], and they became increasingly popular during the 1990s.<ref name=Opiyo>{{cite book|title=Research on Gender and Sexualities in Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9egvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA80|first=Valerie|last=Opiyo|chapter=The 'G-String' as a Space for Sexual and Political Imagination|editor1-first=Jane|editor1-last=Bennett|editor2-first=Tamale|editor2-last=Sylvia|publisher=Codesria|date=2017|isbn=9782869787124|pages=80–81}}</ref> Men's G-strings had developed from garments worn by [[physical culture]] and [[bodybuilding]] models,{{sfnp|Cole|2018|page=115}} and in 1994 a men's G-string was the best selling design of HOM, a luxury men's underwear brand then owned by [[Triumph International]].<ref name=Cole/> Other underwear brands, such as [[Sloggi]] and [[Jockey International]], also introduced men's G-strings.{{sfnp|Cole|2018|page=109}} The fashion for men's G-Strings declined somewhat in the early twenty-first centrury, but recent years have seen a resurgence in their popularity. In Africa the G-string has become a fashionable item of clothing for young women, and they are often visible above the back of [[low-rise jeans]] as a [[whale tail]].<ref name=Opiyo/> As [[lingerie]] they are sometimes worn with a [[babydoll]].{{sfnp|Martin|Lehu|2009|page=360}}

In modern [[strip club]]s the strippers often wear G-strings and the customers often give them [[Gratuity|tip]]s by placing [[banknote]]s in their G-strings.<ref>{{cite book|title=Behind the G-String: An Exploration of the Stripper's Image, Her Person and Her Meaning|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GH2FAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA9|first=David A.|last=Scott|publisher=McFarland Incorporated|date=2003|isbn=9780786418497|page=9}}</ref> The wearing of G-strings in strip clubs is required in some [[Jurisdiction (area)|jurisdiction]]s under laws that prohibit public nudity.<ref>{{cite book|title=Raw Judicial Power?: The Supreme Court and American Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D-nBAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA234|first=Robert J.|last=McKeever|publisher=Manchester University Press|date=1995|isbn=9780719048739|page=234}}</ref> Some regulations cover the design of G-string allowed. These regulations have in many cases been determined by liquor boards and can differ significantly over a short distance.<ref name=IH/> The constitutional legality of such regulations has been upheld in two cases by the [[US Supreme Court]], when it had to rule on whether [[First Amendment]] rights were being infringed.<ref name=Guarnieri/>