Now famously known as Nipplegate, whose nip was seen on national TV during Superbowl 38, due to a “wardrobe malfunction”?
Wardrobe malfunction stories in major US consumer and business publications, newspapers, and major TV and radio broadcasts. Journalist Eric Alterman described the incident as "the most famous 'wardrobe malfunction' since Lady Godiva." The American Dialect Society had a number of related terms for word of the year nominations in 2004, including "Janet moment" ("unplanned bodily exposure at a public function"), "boobgate" ("scandal over Janet Jackson's exposed breast"), "nipplegate" (like boobgate, "but used earlier in squawk over Jackson's possible nipple ring") and "wardrobe malfunction" ("overexposure in a mammary way"). The term has been translated into other languages to describe similar incidents, including "garderobedefect"
Wardrobe malfunction Daniels warns, "With so many people involved in the wedding party, a wardrobe malfunction is guaranteed to happen." In "Cheer!: Inside the Secret World of College Cheerleaders", Kate Torgovnick warns of wardrobe malfunctions while cheerleading. Wardrobe malfunction A wardrobe malfunction is accidental exposure of a person's intimate parts due to a temporary failure of clothing to do its job. It is different from indecent exposure or flashing, as the latter are deliberate, although some "malfunctions" are alleged to have been planned. There has been a long history of such incidents, though the term itself was only coined in the mid-2000s