Feelin' like i got broken glass in my underwear...

So today, Craiggers had a post about how he assumes a guy is gay if (fill in the blank), and it started out being about funny stereotypes and devolved into a discussion about men's underwear (which really isn't that unusual on Puntabulous at all), and it got me thinking: I should do an underwear post.

There were comments from guys who paid up to $40 for a pair of underwear (I'm looking at you Dave S.) that is made of less fabric than the sock I am now wearing on my right foot! And that's all well and good, to each their own. I've paid $30 for a comic book back in the early 80's, and I'm certain Dave S., among others, wouldn't pay a tenth of that for any comic book (although that comic can now seel for upward of $800, and I doubt Dave S.'s underwear would sell anywhere near that...although with some of the freaks out there, who knows. But I digress...) and that's all okay too. It's just since my underwear comes three for like $8 bucks, its pretty likely in the last year I've spent just as much as he on underwear and have 15 pairs to show for it. But to each their own.

Primarily, I have boxers. I've got some older boxerbriefs I've had for a while, but no briefs. As I was growing up, probably until college, when I needed underwear, mom bought me some (she was doing the laundry before then, and when a pair got worn out and ratty, she threw it out, and then bought new to replace it), and she always got tighty-whities. Fruit Of The Loom. At that point, I didn't know I had other options. I saw guys in movies taking off their pants and wearing light blue boxers-ish things, but that was in the movies, that's not something I'd wear!

In fact, as I recall from lockerrooms in high school and middle school, the vast majority of young men in the early and mid 80's worn tighty-whites. I vividly remember when a guy named Mike in 9th grade started wearing boxers: just solid colors, no plaid, or funny stuff on them or anything. Caused quite a stir in the lockerroom cause it was different.

And I saw a movie right around that same time about a bunch of kids kidnapped in Australia and held in a bus buried underground (was supposed to be based on a true story). At any rate, the kids escaped and ended up going into some caves where they had to swim through some water (I don't remember why, just bear with me) and they all disrobed to thier underwear to do it, and one kid, the oldest kid, about 16 or so, was wearing just tight, red bikini briefs. I remember that vividly as well cause I never thought guys would wear bikinis under regular clothes and because...well, I revisited that image frequently over the next several weeks when I had "alone time".

I honestly don't remember when I started buying boxers. But I remember when I did, i just got rid of all my briefs (perhaps mom still has some dustrags around the house somewhere that used to gird my loins....but I really hope not) and wore nothing but them. And have been so ever since.

Something else I realized recently, I coordinate my undies with my shirt. If I wearing a white shirt that day, i pull out white undies; blue shirt, blue undies; green shirt, green undies. The only exception is that one orange shirt I have...I don't have any orange undies, so I just go with black then.

I'm not really sure WHY I coordinate them like that, I just do. Kinda like making sure my belt color matches my work shoes (black or brown) and that I'm never wearing white socks with dress shoes. Its just something I do, almost unconsciously.

However, unconscious or not, I'm fairly certain I'll never pay more than $10 for a single pair of underwear. Unless maybe it's a pair of Dave S.'s.

POLT Listening to "Boogie Shoes" by K.C. and The Sunshine Band

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