Briefs, Boxers, Boxer Briefs or Trunks: How to Choose
The five types of men's underwear, and a way to choose between them based on your trousers, your thighs and your day rather than a flatmate's opinion.
Underwear Considered
Underwear, swimwear and the rest of what goes on first. Fit, fabric, history and the things actually worth buying, written for men who would rather be comfortable than fashionable.
Underwear
Briefs, boxers, boxer briefs, trunks and everything in between.
83 articles
Swimwear
Swim briefs, trunks, jammers, pools and open water.
13 articles
Socks
Heights, wool, white socks and the business sock.
17 articles
Base Layers
Vests, undershirts and the cheapest upgrade you own.
5 articles
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The Boxer Brief Won, and It Deserved To
Boxer briefs are the most worn design in the West, and not by accident. What they are genuinely best at, and the three situations where something else wins.
The Case for Briefs: Why They Should Be Every Man's Default
Briefs supported your grandfather, dress two billion men worldwide and win on every measure that matters. The full case for making briefs your default.
Speed On In Your Speedos: The Sydney Knitting Mill That Named the Swim Brief
How a 1914 Sydney mill named the swim brief in a staff competition, won eight golds at Melbourne and survived the suit ban that reset the record books.
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Socks · 11 min read
The Sweaty Feet Problem, Solved
The best socks for sweaty feet are wool, not cotton. Why feet sweat so much, what causes the smell, and the shoe rotation habit that fixes most of it.
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Socks · 11 min read
How to Wash Socks, and Where the Other One Went
How to wash socks properly: the right temperature, why softener wrecks wool, what the dryer does to elastic, and the real mechanics of the missing sock.
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Socks · 11 min read
What Socks Go With What Shoes
What socks to wear with shoes, worked from the leather up: Oxfords, loafers, boots, trainers and sandals, with the height, fibre and colour logic for each.
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Socks · 11 min read
The Running Sock: What Actually Matters
The best socks for running blisters start with friction, moisture and heat. Fibre, toe seams, height, compression and fit, judged on what actually works.
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Underwear · 11 min read
The Postbag: Dispatches from the Locker Room
Six letters from the changing room: the unhurried strut, the towel years, a jammed locker, a dentist at the worst moment and eleven years of Tuesday swims.
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Underwear · 12 min read
The Postbag: How I Converted My Mates
Six letters on talking friends into briefs: a wager that went far too well, a five a side team, a wedding crisis and a son who got there first.
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Underwear · 11 min read
The Postbag: Away Games, Sofas and Spare Rooms
Six letters on staying away from home: a two night bag that lasted nine days, a sleepover settled thirty years late, and a hospital gown with critics.
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Underwear · 11 min read
The Postbag: Letters from the Gym Floor
Six letters from the gym, the bike, the five a side pitch, the dojo and the boathouse on what men actually train in, and the editor writing back to each.