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boxers
7 articles tagged boxers.
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Underwear · 11 min read
The Boxer Short Is a Pyjama
Are boxer shorts good underwear? They are cut from the same pattern as pyjama shorts and sold on a health claim the evidence never backed. Where they belong.
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Underwear · 11 min read
In Defence of Christmas Pants
Novelty Christmas underwear is one of the last things a man owns purely for pleasure, and it is usually badly made. How to enjoy the joke and buy well.
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Underwear · 11 min read
Things Men Say About Briefs, Ranked by How Wrong They Are
Eight myths about wearing briefs, ranked from the ones with a real point to the one stated with most confidence and least support. Fertility ranks worst.
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Underwear · 11 min read
A Letter to My Nineteen Year Old Self, Who Wore Boxers
Twenty pairs in the drawer and four he actually liked. A letter to a younger man on switching from boxers to briefs, waistbands, multipacks and false comfort.
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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 · 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 · 6 min read
In Praise of the Loose Boxer
Boxer shorts support nothing and fail under tailoring, yet remain the best thing in the drawer. What they are good at, and whether woven really beats knitted.