![]() ![]() Of course, fellow commenter ApolloRockOfLove fires back with what would appear to be the commonly held opinion : “No, because I’m not five years old.” They’re comfortable, and when it’s 100 degrees out, it’s nice to not have extra material.” I personally wish there wasn’t this stigma against them. I don’t wear plain, old white Hanes or whatever. I wear briefs sometimes, but Calvin Klein or American Eagle - stuff like that. ![]() “I think there’s a difference between ‘juvenile’ tighty-whities and other briefs. Responding to a post asking whether any men still wear tighty-whities, redditor DoublePostedBroski admits to occasionally sporting them : When actor Bryan Cranston asked Breaking Bad writer Vince Gilligan why his character sported tighty-whities while stumbling through the New Mexico desert, his response pretty much summed up the current cultural opinion toward these outdated undergarments: “ Tighty-whities are funnier than boxer shorts.” (That said, that particular pair of tighty-whities would go on to sell for nearly $10,000.)īut despite tighty-whities being stigmatized as both dorky and childish - two qualities that most men don’t want associated with their junk - some guys defiantly continue to wear them. These days, tighty-whities act almost solely as a punchline. But while tighty-whities remained popular for a few decades, they lost much of their appeal in the 1970s and 1980s, when underwear transitioned from something that men traditionally hid underneath their trousers into flashy ( and often fun) fashion statements. This new design was welcomed by men at the time, many of whom were still sporting incredibly uncomfortable knee-length flannel drawers well into the 1930s. The image inspired Kneibler to design the first-ever pair of tighty-whities: Snug, legless underwear featuring an overlapping Y-front fly. In 1934, Wisconsin hosiery company executive and designer Arthur Kneibler received a postcard that depicted a Frenchman wearing a bikini-style bathing suit. ![]()
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