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boxer briefs
8 articles tagged boxer briefs.
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Underwear · 11 min read
The Best Boxer Briefs You Can Actually Buy
Six boxer briefs worth owning, from German cotton that outlasts your trousers to a cheap synthetic that is genuinely good. Each with its honest weakness.
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Underwear · 11 min read
Underwear for Big Thighs: The Chafing Problem Solved
Why the leg rides up, why it burns by mile eight, and the four variables that fix it: inseam length, leg retention, fabric friction and seam placement.
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Underwear · 7 min read
How a Boxer Brief Should Actually Fit
Ride up, bunching behind the knee, constant adjusting: the style is not the problem. How boxer briefs should fit, in four checks you can do standing up.
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Underwear · 7 min read
The Trunk Is the Sweet Spot
Shorter than a boxer brief, more covered than a brief, and quietly the right answer for a lot of men who have never tried one. The case for the trunk.
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Underwear · 5 min read
Launderette: The Sixty Seconds That Rewrote Men's Underwear
The history of boxer shorts is an advertising history: a Times Square billboard in 1982, a launderette in 1985, and the hybrid that arrived in 1992.
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Underwear · 7 min read
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.
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Underwear · 6 min read
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.
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Underwear · 4 min read
The Great Rebrand: How the Boxer Brief Won the Argument
Boxer briefs vs briefs: the popular style kept the brief's support and the boxer's name. How a rebrand won an argument the brief had already settled.