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waxjism impulse-bought me a couple of pairs of underpants in the so-called "shorts" or "boxers" style (although they're really more like men's boxer briefs) because they had Star Wars prints on them and they were in the clearance bin.
Unfortunately, I'd never worn that style before but I quickly discovered I preferred them to all the others that I already have. Previously I've mostly bought hipsters, because they are less prone to riding up or giving one a wedgie, but these do that even less.
The reason I say 'unfortunately' is because they are a less popular style around here, and therefore slightly harder to find. The store where I usually buy underwear has like twenty styles of hipsters and exactly one model of 'shorts', for example. Not only are 'shorts' themselves less popular, but a lot of things labelled and sold as "shorts" aren't really shorts, they're more sort of hipsters - the leg holes are cut a little lower than hipsters or the other traditional styles, still not designed (as you can see on the models) to hit on the leg, below the crease of the groin: they want to show some cheek. The key difference is that the good ones (the ones that it seems reasonable to call 'shorts') are shaped like |_n_| - the bottoms of the leg holes form a horizontal line when laid flat - and the bad ones still angle up towards the outside (like shorts typically do not do).
I'm aware that some women just like to wear men's underwear, and men's boxer briefs don't do that, but I can't jive with the extra room at the crotch.
The absolutely most common basic underwear around here, sort of the Hanes and Fruit of the Loom smushed together of Finland, is Sloggi, a Swiss brand which got huge on the strength of good basic cotton underwear but which now sells fewer natural fiber models than synthetic ones. As a result, I've never been able to buy any before, because all the stores just have bikinis and granny panties ("briefs") in cotton.
Only now I was poking around the website of this lingerie store that's having a Sloggi sale, and have learned that not only do they make the exact style I want in cotton, it's their most-sold style!
The style that I've never seen at all before in any store, even though Sloggi is in like ten stores I can think of offhand, is their most popular style!
Perhaps it just doesn't sell in Finland. Finnish women love wedgies??? Finnish women don't GET wedgies because... are their butts a different shape? (I mean statistically, maybe, but this doesn't really seem an adequate explanation.)
(I don't have a preference for Sloggi - in fact they're owned by Triumph, which is somewhat Problematic, like all other big multinational brands probably - just a preference for cotton or bamboo. I'm just interested here because I should have seen plenty of my desired style but I haven't, because - Finnish butts, or something.)
waxjism impulse-bought me a couple of pairs of underpants in the so-called "shorts" or "boxers" style (although they're really more like men's boxer briefs) because they had Star Wars prints on them and they were in the clearance bin.Unfortunately, I'd never worn that style before but I quickly discovered I preferred them to all the others that I already have. Previously I've mostly bought hipsters, because they are less prone to riding up or giving one a wedgie, but these do that even less.
The reason I say 'unfortunately' is because they are a less popular style around here, and therefore slightly harder to find. The store where I usually buy underwear has like twenty styles of hipsters and exactly one model of 'shorts', for example. Not only are 'shorts' themselves less popular, but a lot of things labelled and sold as "shorts" aren't really shorts, they're more sort of hipsters - the leg holes are cut a little lower than hipsters or the other traditional styles, still not designed (as you can see on the models) to hit on the leg, below the crease of the groin: they want to show some cheek. The key difference is that the good ones (the ones that it seems reasonable to call 'shorts') are shaped like |_n_| - the bottoms of the leg holes form a horizontal line when laid flat - and the bad ones still angle up towards the outside (like shorts typically do not do).
I'm aware that some women just like to wear men's underwear, and men's boxer briefs don't do that, but I can't jive with the extra room at the crotch.
The absolutely most common basic underwear around here, sort of the Hanes and Fruit of the Loom smushed together of Finland, is Sloggi, a Swiss brand which got huge on the strength of good basic cotton underwear but which now sells fewer natural fiber models than synthetic ones. As a result, I've never been able to buy any before, because all the stores just have bikinis and granny panties ("briefs") in cotton.
Only now I was poking around the website of this lingerie store that's having a Sloggi sale, and have learned that not only do they make the exact style I want in cotton, it's their most-sold style!
The style that I've never seen at all before in any store, even though Sloggi is in like ten stores I can think of offhand, is their most popular style!
Perhaps it just doesn't sell in Finland. Finnish women love wedgies??? Finnish women don't GET wedgies because... are their butts a different shape? (I mean statistically, maybe, but this doesn't really seem an adequate explanation.)
(I don't have a preference for Sloggi - in fact they're owned by Triumph, which is somewhat Problematic, like all other big multinational brands probably - just a preference for cotton or bamboo. I'm just interested here because I should have seen plenty of my desired style but I haven't, because - Finnish butts, or something.)
