Trig Brother Question 7: Items Of Underwear - Search And Destroy

Nocture of Elvis Presley's Gravestone!

Although this was my question I never got to answer it due to pathetically early shock eviction on the grounds that everyone figured I was one of the few people mentally stable enough to deal with it (only kidding, fellow TB players!).

So: Search: well fitting bras, thongs, basques (girls); anything but boxers and string vests (boys).

Destroy: hideous sports bras, French knickers (what are you supposed to wear them under? It makes no sense!), anything greying or oozing elastic, boxers, string vests.

Destroy: MALE THONGS. Especially on Italian men over the age of 50, with waist sizes higher than their age. And gold medallions. (I wonder if anyone's thinking of the same Bloom County comic strip that I'm thinking of...)

String vests I'm down with, but the boxers backlash I find a bit baffling. When boxers first got popular there were loads of articles on the fashion pages of papers saying wow yeah, boxers, they're great, much better than those horrible briefs, now our men look good.

But now it is impossible to find a woman with a good word for them. Not that I imagine the women of ILE are going to lose much sleep over this but I say they are CLASSIC - nothing else I have ever tried is as comfortable.

Sorry, Tom, boxers just aren't sexy. As most men have better legs than most women it makes sense to show them off in something nice and tight. Even y-fronts are better than boxers.

What about tight boxers? Where do you draw the line?

Of course I have yet again been guilty of relationshipthink - i.e. abusing my attached position to pick underwear on comfort grounds not on the grounds that I might have to show it to some stranger later tonight. Oh well. I'll be sorry when Isabel runs off with some bloke in a tanga, no doubt.

Tight boxers are not boxers they have a different name. I cannot remember it off the top of my head despite being an underwear expert, something like jockey shorts or whatever.

I will put in a good word for boxers. I don't want to see some tight covered bulging package - argh. Men fall out of tight underwear far too easily and it just looks disturbing, give me boxers or give me death. Plus, if they buy them in a large I can steal them and use them as sleep clothing.

Anyhow, underwear.

Search: Boxers, particularly funny ones and seasonal ones and flannel ones; thongs on women only, particularly low riders; push up bras.

Destroy: non-thong underwear for women, thongs on men, all men's underwear besides boxers, sports bras (do they ever actually help?), any non-push up bra.

Tight boxers = trunks, I believe.

I have a good word for boxers and that word is CLASSIC! Fear not, Tom, I'll have a boxer bloke over a briefs boy any day. As for Calvins, wannabe Calvins and Maximus pants, no, no, no!

Destroy any pants for boys that have cartoons on them. Destroy designer bras for not going bigger than a C cup. Actually, DKNY (and Victoria's Secret for that matter) go upwards of a C, but you might as well wear nothing. Big girls need scaffolding.

Have I said too much?

Destroy: sports bras as they always seem to squash my breasts to the side.
Search: anything by Agent Provocateur.

I think boxers are made in too many silly prints, white ones are so fresh, so clean...sorry.

Search: cosabella thongs, gemma and lejaby underwire bras. H+M snoopy embroidered set. H+M is fall apart cheap but fun.

Destroy: any bra the underwire pops out of, bras with water push up pads.

Speaking of water push ups, have you tried the air ones? Let me tell you - WORST BRA EVER. That bears repeating:

WORST BRA EVER - MIRACLE BRA AIR LIFT

It actually makes this crinkly plastic noise when you hug people, I tested it myself. I wanted to pop it and then bring it back to the store like that - "This is what I think of this bullshit!"

So, yeah, destroy airbras.

Lesley - on the Outkast tip - "naaw I don't want to see your thongs / I kinda dig them old school cute regular drawers" (from "I'll Call Before I Come"). I kind of agree, cause they look good on everybody. Thongs can work but they can also not.

Racy underwear on uptight people = dud.

Sorry, but regular underwear look just as bad on certain people as thongs look on certain people.

I'm going to say destroy Chastity Belts and Corsets...as I think this post should try and mention every form of underwear.

Corsets are fantastic, what are you talking about?

There was this stupid segment on Inside Edition (Deborah Norville = DUDDIO) about this suction device that's supposed to enlarge your breasts. I guess it goes around the tit and sucks all the air out from the cavity containing the tit, thereby expanding the tit. You're supposed to use it for about 10 weeks, with it sucking on your tits for about 6 hours a day so they distend and expand. Brilliant.

Oh, wait, I'm sorry. Using the wrong word. Please replace "tit" with "boobie".

Dunno, never worn one, but was led to believe that they were really painful and caused health problems...I mean the old school Victorian ones!

Well, they do, but it looks wicked good.

All underwear should be destroyed.

Boxer-briefs are good for when you get dressed up in slacks or a tux, and don't want that extra boxer bulge all around.

Burn destroy obliterate: tighty whities. Ugh. My Dad would walk around the house in those things. Gag.

Search: Boxer Briefs

Destroy: Thermal Underwear

Just go 'Commando'.

I just almost died trying to put on my corsets by myself. I think I broke my rib. I swear, the things I do for entertainment when I'm home sick.