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Hello Kitty waiting to get on a school bus - suggests a fairly obvious marketing strategy.

'They’re trying to create a trend. ... maybe I won’t bring my kids to that store if they have displays like that,” said Presgraves.

Thongs have a practical use, of course - to avoid panty lines when a woman wears closely fitting skirts or pants. But popular culture has appropriated them into the modern fashion.

Another Leesburg mother, Tracy Donnelly, was so shocked by the display, she bought a few thongs (intending to return them) and stood outside the store, asking mothers what they thought.

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