Are You a “Bobbin”?

They were sitting around at their favorite table, Erendira, Sara, Lisa, Shelly, Corey, Keisha, Ahmad, Wendy, Hank, Naomi, Tommy.  Erendira was going through a microbikini catalog and discussing possibilities with Sara.  It was a frequent activity of BSC girls who wanted to be as naked as possible during the breaks but couldn’t, or wouldn’t, commit to being “Absolutes”.  Erendira was pointing to an unusual “suit”, a one-piece that consisted of a single string going into the crotch, coming up on the other side, then up to a ringed string around the neck and splitting in front into two strings that went to little circles that clipped onto and covered the nipples.

“I couldn’t wear that, I hate thongs,” Sara said, pushing her tray away and resting her huge breasts on the table.  “I feel like I’m sitting on a cheese slicer.”

“That’s how you get as close to naked as possible,” Erendira said.  “At my high school almost all the girls wore thongs.  I got used to them.”

“I’d rather design my own,” Sara said, and she did.  Some of the girls were endlessly inventive and shared their designs for various strings and slings that covered the “legal minimum”.

“You couldn’t wear that in Bakersfield,” Lisa said, referring to Sara’s home town.  Lisa and Wendy had been collecting local ordinances regarding what was considered indecent exposure.  They had most of the big cities in California and many towns; they had even gotten college credit for their efforts, which were on file at the library.

At the main campus, with a lot more girls, there was more of a “scene” as to planning non-semester wear.  There was even a newsletter devoted to passing around designs.  The college was aware of the possibly perverse motivation for this inventiveness -- it might merely spring from a desire to wear clothes, no matter now minimal -- but it was tolerated.  A related activity at the main campus, though possibly with the opposite motivation at heart, was what had become known as “Bobbins” -- as in, “are you a Bobbin?”  The idea was to plan to “wear”, during college breaks, the most ridiculous objects so as to cover the “legally necessary” body parts.  The name started when one girl thought up the idea of gluing sewing machine bobbins onto her nipples.  Other innovations were wine corks to cover the vaginal opening, scotch tape used as a thong, and bras made of twine onto which potholders had been sewed.  The idea was to show how ridiculous it was to require certain body parts to be covered -- anything at all would do, so why not have fun with it?  There were even rumors of parties at the main campus where girls would wear these things, a clear violation of BSC policy, but it sounded like a lot of fun.