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fit
19 articles tagged fit.
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Underwear · 11 min read
Underwear After Surgery: What Actually Helps While You Heal
What to wear while you recover from an operation: waistbands away from the wound, when support is prescribed, and getting dressed without bending.
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Underwear · 11 min read
Incontinence and Underwear: A Practical Guide Without the Euphemisms
What men actually wear when they leak, said plainly. Pads, pouches, washable pants and sheaths, the underwear underneath, skin, odour and laundry.
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Underwear · 12 min read
Vanity Sizing: Why You Are a Different Size in Every Shop
No brand has to agree with any other on what a medium is. Why your size changes shop to shop, and how to buy by the measurement instead of the letter.
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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
The Best Trunks You Can Actually Buy
The best trunks for men, judged on the only thing that matters: whether the leg stays put. Six pairs from Swiss cotton to supermarket, weaknesses included.
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Underwear · 11 min read
The Best Underwear for Big and Tall Men
The best underwear for big and tall men: why waistbands roll, why sizing up rarely fixes the rise, and which brands grade width and length separately.
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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 · 11 min read
Underwear After Weight Loss or Weight Gain
Your body changed and the drawer did not. Underwear size after weight loss or gain: why hips beat waist, and why a stretched waistband never recovers.
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Underwear · 11 min read
How to Buy Briefs in a Shop Without Dying of Embarrassment
Buying underwear in person means bad light, sealed boxes and sizes that disagree. Four things your hands can learn that a photograph cannot, in ten minutes.
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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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Socks · 11 min read
Why Socks Fall Down, and How to Stop It
Why do my socks fall down? Dead cuff elastic, a plain knit leg, the wrong height for your calf, a size too big or hot washing. Each has a fix, most free.
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Socks · 11 min read
Sock Sizing, Explained Properly
Sock sizes bear only a loose relation to shoe sizes. What size socks to buy, how to read the three competing systems, and the heel test that settles it.
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Socks · 11 min read
No-Show Socks That Actually Stay On
Why no show socks slip off, and the four things that stop it: a deep heel pocket, a gripper in the right place, a snug size and a properly shaped back tab.
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Underwear · 11 min read
Slip: Why European Briefs Fit Differently
European briefs sizing explained: what a Swiss, German or Italian slip changes in the rise, side seam and front panel, and how to buy without guessing.
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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 · 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 · 5 min read
How a Brief Should Actually Fit
Four checks that tell you a brief fits: where the waistband sits, what the leg opening does, how the front sits, and the sizing mistake most men make.