The male boxer shorts and basic sock have gone the same way.
Just looked at Sloggi, they're defo not M&S prices.
The male boxer shorts and basic sock have gone the same way.
Queue obligatory joke about Russian underpants and fallout?
Howies is worth checking out.
The thing with Uniqlo is their dubious reputation re working condition and child labour.
I've been & looked on Mumsnet so you don't have to. Several posters there reporting swapping from M&S to Sainsbury's Tu knickers and being happy.
(Basically, assume any clothes you buy these days will be made by people in virtual slavery.)
;DI've been & looked on Mumsnet so you don't have to. Several posters there reporting swapping from M&S to Sainsbury's Tu knickers and being happy.
Thank you I appreciate your sacrifice.
Sloggi pants girl here cos they're properly bum shaped, but mine are rather on the holey end of the spectrum (material rot)
Domestic!Sloggi pants girl here cos they're properly bum shaped, but mine are rather on the holey end of the spectrum (material rot)
They've got holes in. You're seriously still wearing those?
Blokes generally stop buying underwear in their mid-twenties and make it last. The female of the species may hold opinions about such matters. They've got holes in. You're seriously still wearing those? Any man in his mid-forties who comes home with new underpants is either having an affair or hoping to have an affair.
I cannot think of any garment where "last season's look" is more irrelevant than underwear. Let's face it: how many people are going to see your baggies? :o
I used to keep a pair for best otherwise known as "pulling". ;)
M&S underwear designs do changed fairly frequently. I suppose this makes things more interesting and therefore tempting to buy.
Blokes generally stop buying underwear in their mid-twenties and make it last. The female of the species may hold opinions about such matters. They've got holes in. You're seriously still wearing those? Any man in his mid-forties who comes home with new underpants is either having an affair or hoping to have an affair.
Well, regarding affairs, I cannot comment on that.
But when their elasticity stops providing zippy snugness and support, they are done.
I'm totally not in agreement with the baggy boxers brigade, with everything hanging free.
That's a direction to injury.
Sports Bras were invented For A Reason.
On the west side of the Pond, there was a time when one's mother would ask, when a child was going off somewhere, whether they were wearing "good underwear" because "if you are hurt, we don't want the nurses and doctors seeing you in the worn-out ones; they might look down on you and not give you proper care". (Mine never asked, but I'm sure that someone did, to get the story started.)In my wife's family it was 'make sure you're wearing clean knickers' whenever they went to the doctors or hospital as children - even for non-nether region related issues.
.......... they'll chop them off and throw them away........Motorcyclist colleague who was unfortunate enough to come off his bike on the A3 was singularly unimpressed when medical staff cut off ~ £2K's worth of Kevlar lined protective clothing from him. Invariably, terminally blunting their scissors....
I think the instructions for my last mammogram advised AGAINST various skin pong products.Deodorant powder can look like calcifications on a mammogram. False positives are best avoided.
I'm informed that they are the drug-dealer's undercrackers of choice.
Haven't used M&S for decades. Underwear from Uniqlo, especially their Heatech thermal stuff, now available in three grades of insulation.I have some of that! But the sizes are different from the Uniqlo ones sold here. Mine were presents from MiL, who got worried by Mrs B talking about the (lacking) insulation of 19th century English houses. Posted from Japan.
My mother worked till the 80s in the textile industry (until what remained of it vamoosed overseas), mostly as a lockstitcher, but I think she did a bit of everything, for stuff that was sold in places like BHS and C&A (remember those). It meant I grew up wearing wonky seconds. It wasn't great in the UK, low-paid piecework, long hours, poor occupational health, her fingers are messed up with arthritis. So if it was like that in the UK, it doesn't take much imagination to imagine what's it's like in Bangladesh or somewhere similar, making clothes that only retail for a few pounds in the developed world.Yeah, but compare it with the alternatives & it's clear why young women queue up to work in clothes factories in Bangladesh. Much easier than farm work, & they get paid real money (& good money by local standards) for a steady job, instead of working unpaid on a microscopic family farm, perhaps supplemented by an unreliable pittance for seasonal work on bigger farms.
Sizing is different in other markets. I once bought a shirt in Japan, the sleeves didn't reach my wrists!Haven't used M&S for decades. Underwear from Uniqlo, especially their Heatech thermal stuff, now available in three grades of insulation.I have some of that! But the sizes are different from the Uniqlo ones sold here. Mine were presents from MiL, who got worried by Mrs B talking about the (lacking) insulation of 19th century English houses. Posted from Japan.
Sizing is different in other markets. I once bought a shirt in Japan, the sleeves didn't reach my wrists!Haven't used M&S for decades. Underwear from Uniqlo, especially their Heatech thermal stuff, now available in three grades of insulation.I have some of that! But the sizes are different from the Uniqlo ones sold here. Mine were presents from MiL, who got worried by Mrs B talking about the (lacking) insulation of 19th century English houses. Posted from Japan.
It's sizing and shaping.Clothes sold in Japan are shaped for slimmer people than here . . .
Clothes are sold to fit local folk and the market fits local anthropometrics.
I've grumbled elsewhere how trousers etc have evolved over the past few decades.
It's sizing and shaping.Clothes sold in Japan are shaped for slimmer people than here . . .
Clothes are sold to fit local folk and the market fits local anthropometrics.
I've grumbled elsewhere how trousers etc have evolved over the past few decades.
I haven't heard of a lot of these new-fangled companies, eg Sloggi.
I've recently bought several pairs of Step One (https://uk.stepone.life/products/boxer-brief?variant=34636917899401) pants. Very comfortable indeed.Bad joke coming in 5,6,7,8...
You may jest, but they are very comfortable. :-DI've recently bought several pairs of Step One (https://uk.stepone.life/products/boxer-brief?variant=34636917899401) pants. Very comfortable indeed.Bad joke coming in 5,6,7,8...
I haven't heard of a lot of these new-fangled companies, eg Sloggi.
My Sloggi knicks are over 20 years old.
My 'collection' dates from 1984-2019. Samples from 1990-2005 have succumbed to elastic failure.
I said goodbye to one of my 1984 BHS pairs last night. The hole was getting too big.Needle and thread? Patch? :thumbsup:
Pitchfork? Bonfire?I said goodbye to one of my 1984 BHS pairs last night. The hole was getting too big.Needle and thread? Patch? :thumbsup:
I said goodbye to one of my 1984 BHS pairs last night. The hole was getting too big.Needle and thread? Patch? :thumbsup:
I like cotton in contact with my undercarriage, thank you.
I like cotton in contact with my undercarriage, thank you.
I think it was George Orwell did a nice explanation as to why folks buy cheap "posh" stuff or "luxury" items rather than decent stuff.What did he say?