I, Thong

Globalisation is truly remarkable- a successful lace making business from Poland;

"Lace wasn't selling in the quantities it once did, and the tradition was starting to slowly disappear," says Malgorzata Stanaszek, co-owner of KONI-art, the company that stitches the lingerie. "Our friend then said, as a half-joke, 'Why don't you make thongs? They're popular now.'"

Stanaszek, 32, recruited her mother and two sisters into the business, and they started stitching the thongs and selling them on the Internet in 2004. Now Stanaszek says she employs 65 women who work from home churning out lace panties, G-strings, thongs and bras for customers around the world. Orders come from across Europe and as far away as Japan, China, New Zealand and the United States; a Koniakow thong sells for about $20.

"Our company has a global reach," Stanaszek says from her tiny office at the main crossroads in Koniakow's sister village Istebna, a smattering of wooden houses lining the road that snakes along the mountain's crest.

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