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opinion
18 articles tagged opinion.
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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 · 10 min read
Against Black
Black underwear is the colour men buy when they do not want to choose. A warm argument for keeping two or three pairs and retiring the rest.
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Underwear · 10 min read
Against the Novelty Pair
The problem with novelty underwear is not that it is embarrassing. It is that the joke gets printed on the cheapest blank in the factory.
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Underwear · 11 min read
Against the Sports Brand Tax
The logo sits on the waistband, the part that fails first. A case against paying a multiple for cotton underwear with a sportswear name on it.
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Underwear · 11 min read
Against the Multipack
A multipack turns one fit decision into six identical mistakes and stops you learning anything. The case against it, plus the one time it is the right buy.
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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
Why Men Are Frightened of Colour
Black, grey, navy, repeat. How men's clothing lost its colour, which excuses for the black drawer hold up, and why coloured underwear is the place to start.
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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
The Locker Room Strut: A Field Manual
A field manual for carrying yourself in a changing room: the approach, the bench, the pace, the eyes, the towel and the exit. The advice underneath is real.
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Underwear · 11 min read
How to Convert Your Friends to Briefs Without Losing Them
How to get a friend to try briefs without losing the friend: why arguing backfires, the one moment a man is receptive, and the gift that actually lands.
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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 · 11 min read
The Unwritten Rules of the Communal Changing Room
Eye discipline, bench space, the phone rule that genuinely matters, and why you get dry before you dress: changing room etiquette, finally written down.
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Underwear · 11 min read
So Someone Asked Why You Wear Briefs
A ladder of possible answers, from one word to the full lecture nobody asked for, and an honest account of the time I climbed all of it.
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Underwear · 11 min read
The Emergency Pair: A Tribute
In praise of the emergency pair of underwear at the back of the drawer, the one nobody chose, and the drawer arithmetic that makes it unnecessary.
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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.
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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.