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It is the season for them again. I love long underpants! They're so comfy and flexible compared to stiffy ol' trousers. Often at home I don't wear anything else, and sometimes I just want to jump and dance with them. I hope my flatmates don't mind. I especially love the ones with stripes and funky patterns.

Long underpants: discuss.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 24 December 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

I'd never EVER wear'em. Unless I wanted to *desexify* myself for my husband. ;-) Do they even exist for women?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 24 December 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

WHy do you desexify? Is thy mate too amorous?

― Mike Hanle y 3000 (hanle y 3000), Saturday, 24 December 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)

Heh, no, I said *unless* I wanted to make myself less sexy. But I don't. Especially not now. I already feel very unsexy with my big belly. :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 24 December 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

If long underwear would unsexify you to your mate, I guess logic states that short underwear will intensify sexual power! Why is the belly big? Pregnancy or beer excess? Forgive my asking! I am curious. Do you feel unsexifilous when you see your mate in long underwear?

― Mike Hanle y 3000 (hanle y 3000), Saturday, 24 December 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

They exist for women too, though I guess thick pantyhose (the non-nylon type) is what many prefer. I don't think they're unsexy at all - asexy, maybe, but definitely cute.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 24 December 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

behold! (scroll down)

http://www.whitesquall.com/bargoons.php

― Mike Hanle y 3000 (hanle y 3000), Saturday, 24 December 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

Mike, I'm pregnant. And ate too much as well. My husband does not wear long underwear. :-)

It's practical, I know, but I find it very unsexy. Don't think I'd appreciate my husband wearing long underwear.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 24 December 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

I'd rather my husband wore long underwear and kept all snug and warm than turned into a big sniffly freak plagued by chills all winter. I don't find underwear sexy at all, so practical wins just by virtue of being practical.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 24 December 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

In ye olden times long underwear was unsexy: baggy, itchy, woolen, scarcely ever removed and therefore full of scurf. What could be more offputting to amorous feelings than the escape hatch on the back end of a union suit?

Nowadays, all that is a thing of the past! Modern, clean, ultra-refined long underwear is made from space age fabrics and available in sleek, form-flattering designs. Don't like "boiled lobster red"? Not a problem! Long underwear now comes in a rainbow of colors and prints; from the ultra-feminine to business casual, they've got your style.

So, forget about your outdated notins of long underwear and catch up with the future. Buy some today... and smile.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 24 December 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

http://www.whitesquall.com/images/bargoon_stripes.jpg

Yeah, I'd totally find a girl wearing long undies like these cute.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 24 December 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

I want some stripey long underwear, mine is just plain dark blue silk, apart from my russian stripey sailor's tops.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 24 December 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Surely 'space age' dates that to some decades ago.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 24 December 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

oh man I would love some stripey long underewear. I have like five pairs of these, they're very nice but they don't come in stripes.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 24 December 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Ho! My parodic intentions are exposed, like the codpiece in my long underpants.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 24 December 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

I would like to have some temple garments. KNow any mormons?
I hate to think of hygeiene of the olden days. People constantly smelled like shiot and they didnt know

― Mike Hanle y 3000 (hanle y 3000), Sunday, 25 December 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but everybody smelled equally like shiot, instead of today where you have one or two odd stinkers to louse up a perfectly good atmosphere. It must have been better or worse for that, but I still can't decide which.

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 25 December 2005 05:24 (twenty years ago)

For Halloween this year, a male friend of mine showed up in long purple thermal underwear with a hand-drawn anime girl getting a facial emblazoned on his chest. He was a "blowjob fairy." And damn it if he wasn't the hottness.

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Sunday, 25 December 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

TS re: terminology -- "long underwear" vs. "thermal underwear" vs. "long johns" vs. "gatchees" (this last one comes from my grandmother, no idea where she got the term)

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Sunday, 25 December 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

Got Cheese?

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 25 December 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)

A must for New York winters (and yet more abominable climes).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 December 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

long underwear is the ultimate secret weapon against the cold.

― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

Got Cheese?

Will mice?

Seriously, I realize my hatred has resulted in legs with a rash. :-(

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

A must for New York winters (and yet more abominable climes)

Word up-- I'll be wearing my thermals again when it dips back down to 10 degrees F.

― Chris F. (servoret), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

mine's all white, i think i need to buy some fun stuff

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

I have never seen the need for long underwear. My feet get cold in the winter, sure, but not my legs, wtf.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

i wear it only out of necessity - they never seem to fit right - too tight (and i'm a thin guy) and the waist area always seems to not go up high enough or something. plus they make me itchy and my leg hair all matted and nasty feeling.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

they're good if you're spending a lot of time walking around somewhere very cold. like mountains in winter. or montreal. or siberia.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

my legs totally get cold! I break out the long underwear like the first day it gets below 50, it's so cozy. Although by spring I'm so happy to put it away.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

You are all SISSIES. Or live in the North Pole, one of the two.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Actually, this is something that's become more of a problem for me since a lost a bunch of weight a few years ago. Before that, I was a lot more tolerant of the cold-- even in my pre-chunkage days I didn't feel the need to layer up all the time.

― Chris F. (servoret), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

You are all SISSIES. Or live in the North Pole, one of the two.

I think it's both for me.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

CHECK

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

It's minus 17 degrees in here at the moment, these are total necessity. These days, when I'm at a friends place, I often just take my pants off and stroll around in my long underwear, because it's so much comfier. Thankfully my friends understand.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

I just want to state this is not a EUROPEAN custom. If I catch my husband in long underpants (sans/with pants), he's out.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

xpost TELL US MORE, PLZ, ABOUT THE PANTLESSNESS

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

BLACK SILK LONGJOHNS, PEOPLE!!!!!!
I am wearing them now. They are warm, comfortable and THEY DRIVE MY HUSBAND MAD WITH LUST!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/129/364334148_2de38ffa64.jpg?v=0

It's a hardy northern european thing. i shall be rocking these this weekend on the fens (probably under a boiler suit).

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

they don't work very well with "trousers," unfortunately. and anyway, if yr not being active when you're wearing them, the warmth and circulatory effects can be a wash at times.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

I love a man in longjohns. It's all about the erotic fun of a boy-girl slumber party.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

They work great with trousers in a base mid shell combination. (or base shell if it is warm enough)

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

by trousers i mean suit pants, e.g. i suppose it wouldn't be a problem if yr wearing ice-climbing stuff over your suit pants, but now really

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

They work perfectly well with jeans.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

absolutely. jeans /= trousers in my universe, but perhaps this is not true elsewhere.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe longjohns work better if you're thin or if you don't mind looking and/or feeling like a sausage, but they wouldn't fit under most of my jeans.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

Well, obviously it helps if you prefer the baggy style.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

If it's cold enough, baggy is more than a style. It's a survival strategy.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

it's mainly my feet that get extremely cold, so for a pair of really heavy wool knee socks works better than long undies for me.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

Only in burqas. xxp

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, long wool socks are often the way to go, but also often itchier

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

My boss did this the other day, came in and said something about how she was wearing longjohns, but she was still cold. And I was like, that's because your pants are skin tight. Trapping air is the name of the game.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

I repeat. SILK. Very thin. Fine under dress trousers. Really.
As for feet—my son worked at a ski slope, running the chairlift. He swore by that capsaicin stuff.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

silk somehow escapes the static electricity effect?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

yes it does because it's not the sort of polymer you can charge up.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

i knew there was a reason i regretted dropping science (as it were), thanks

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

long wool socks are often the way to go, but also often itchier

there's an amazing kind that costco sells by the 3-pack that isn'tt itchy AT ALL. kind of fleecy, actually, and since they're for men i can pull them up nearly to the knee. i love them, although they're a total fashion disaster.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

My achille's heels, cold-wise, are my hands.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

Mainly because I keep taking my gloves off to do this and that because they're so clumsy. Then I have to ball my hand up inside the main part of the glove, and when I get back to my car I can barely use my keys. It takes about 45 minutes for full coordination to return. I am very skinny, that might be a factor. My hands go numb inside the house if the heat's below 65 or 70.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

cue the string section.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

Fingerless gloves instead of or as well as bigger gloves is the way forward.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Don't your fingertips freeze, though? I've never understood how that could possibly work.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

they loose less heat, your fingertips will stay warmer for longer. It's all part of the same system (I'm assuming you have a hat on in these situations).

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

but they wouldn't fit under most of my jeans.

i could fit like another me sized person in my jeans.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going out in all my layers right now. The dog is whining at the door. It's amazing how he is comfy in such a wide temp-range. Fur coats rule!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh. Wind in face. WIND, I HATE YOU.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

When I wear these I tend to get erection.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Thursday, 8 February 2007 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

Huh.

I have been misreading this title as "Lost Underpants."

― CM@her (cmaher), Thursday, 8 February 2007 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

I like the all-body longjohn lumberjack undersuit things. Me & my pal moved to a house w/a FIREPLACE, and we were so excited we went out and bought matching full-body red thermals and sat around the fire. Oh man those things are great, buttflap or no.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 8 February 2007 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

Union suits!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 8 February 2007 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

I have a union suit. My mother gave me one with my name embroidered on it too. It's ridiculous and undignified but very warm and kind of Civil War-like.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Thursday, 8 February 2007 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

That plumb makes me wanna go out and eat some johnny cakes.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 8 February 2007 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

They are available at every RANCHING SUPPLY STORE for some reason?

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 8 February 2007 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

because the buttflap is crucial for the brokeback brethren.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 8 February 2007 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

I want to get some longjohns before the next cold snap.

― Tuesdays With Morimoto (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 8 February 2007 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, I've been wanting one of those for years, but they're kinda hard to find here.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 8 February 2007 05:55 (nineteen years ago)

Beth:

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/content/Item/91/27/66/i912766sq01.jpg

― Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 8 February 2007 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

^ I have a pear and love them

― Charmmy Kitty's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (ex machina), Thursday, 8 February 2007 06:11 (nineteen years ago)

i love pears

― Charmmy Kitty's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (ex machina), Thursday, 8 February 2007 06:11 (nineteen years ago)

I also have silk long underwear which are grebt. So much better than the triscuit-textured cloth ones.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 8 February 2007 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://nexus.n.ml.org/synnex/chrisandsock.jpg

― Charmmy Kitty's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (ex machina), Thursday, 8 February 2007 06:29 (nineteen years ago)

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