wasn’t until the fall of 2017 that the bodysuit resurfaced as an intense trend on the runway. Fashion designers embraced the resurfacing of the bodysuit, specifically the thong bodysuit. In the book, The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell explores the idea of products experiencing a, “tipping point”. One term that explains the trend of the bodysuit is the power of context, which ultimately demonstrates how people are influenced by outside sources as to what they do, wear, or buy. Although the thong