What are the main goals? Bantering with various friends, it seems we do this to have an extra protective layer...a layer of warmth...a layer of protection from rough pants...a layer to protect from exposure.
If these are the reasons we wear underwear, why do so many pairs seem to prove incapable of achieving these purposes?
On a trip to Macy’s over the weekend to purchase new underwear, the experience was much more of a game than I expected. Dodging between racks and tables stacked with thin, flimsy, synthetic fabrics priced at unreasonable amounts because the perceived uniqueness of the design and the idea that one will become attractive once inside them.
Slinking from table to table, seeing a pair that may finally fit the cut as plain, cotton underwear with fabric to warm the bum, you think you finally find a normal pair only to turn it over and read some statement attempting to define my character or making some commanding remark.
This bickering makes me feel like a worn out old woman. But I’d rather take that role and knit pick for functionality and simplicity than simply slip into a little pair of these just because they’re the most common things around.
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