A friend of mine on here pointed me to something in a later part of this thread, but i got to reading the whole thing, even the parts it got off track from the original poster, Lots of thing started clicking in my mind, and my Dad and Uncle and me and my boys all are pretty comfortable talking underwear. I remember my
Dad and uncle talking about their underwear trends and stuff and i don't think my Uncle ever throws anything away till its in rags, because he has a couple big storage boxes, the rubber maid kind, full of underwear from different pionts in his life when he made a change for one reason or another.
The original question being stated was for "older" men, over 40. I had the chance to assemble a group of 9 of us yesterday to discuss underwear and trends and popularity and stuff. My dad, a 1988 high school graduate, my Uncle a 1991, one of their school pals from somewhere similar in age, his name is Cory. Myself, im 28 and a former college athlete and assistant coach in college and now to youth. I do have 4 teenage boys, obviously not mine biologically, but the fact i have 30 plus pair of mens underweear come through my laundry every week does add to my knowledge. The rest of the group were late teens, 18, 19, or early 20's. One a total stud bull rider who also played football in high school, one a high school wrestler, the rest are either current or former basketball and or mullti sport athletes. I say that because it seems to make a difference in underwear preferences and opinions.
I have only ever really felt a few guys considered anyone elses choice to be childish, but for that opinion in underwear, its definitely the guys my age and a bit older, so mid 20's to 39, i'll say.
My uncle says he never knew any of his pals to switch to boxers, he had never even seen a guy in boxers till he saw a couple in college too ashamed to walk down the hall to shower in normal underwear as he called it.
Were white breifs ever cool, yeah, they were, and are at times with certain segments of young men now. My Dad and Uncle both say White briefs were def cool and popular, the guys who wore white briefs, were not ashamed to hang out in them, skinny dip in them, so to speak, go shirtless on the farm and let the waistband show, and just be seen in them in general. This would have been 80's and at least first half of 90's.
One thing my Uncle has told me about was when some of the local boys who had gone off to college would come back to the farm over the summer to help out and after a hot day, they would go to the barn in the shade and get out of their blue jeans and hang out, cooling off, in their white briefs. Those briefs so full of sweat they sagged and gapped and he could not wait till he was one of them, he said they alway had this gap between the legs and the crotch of the undewear that showed some ballsack and pubic hair, and for someone praying for their turn to hit puberty, that was a huge thing.
My dad actually dissappointed my Uncle when he went underwear shopping for himself once and started wearing Jockey H fly briefs, but got the light grey or heather grey ones. In his mind they just were not as cool as the plain old cheap cotton ones, almost like he was a phoney farm boy or jock or had betrayed himi somehow. The other gentleman in our conversation yesterday was actually the one who was with my Dad when he bought those Jockey briefs. Dad had needed to go actually buy a couple extra jockstraps, Cory invited hmself to come along not knowing Dad's reason for going shopping. Dad finally had to tell him and Cory who still played football in college was like, I have plenty of jocks, coach gives us all we want, spend your money on these breifs and we'll do some swapping back at the room. Cory's statement to my Dad back then they say was that those briefs are easy to grab your dick for a quick wank. Easy access fly and all.
Dad must have like those breifs, as that is all i ever saw him in growing up, he had white ones, tons of the grey ones, a few black a few navy blue, not remembering much else color wise, i would say he seemed to like the grey best and white second best though.
an older guy on my football team, old enough he turned 18 before senior year started, (he used to buy cigarettes and resell them to make cash) (no, i don't nor never did smoke, but others did), he shows up late summer when the real practices start, his locker two down from mine. He had always been trendy with AE underwear and stuff, this was like 2011, and he was opening a new package of white Jockey Y front briefs, size 34, needed those to cover his nicely muscular ass. Every day that season he come in, stripped naked of his nicer underwear, put on his white Y fronts then his football pants. Never did get him to try a jockstrap. He must have had a dozen total pair of those briefs, he would leave them and toss them in the white cart and they would get washed at school. Others must have liked his idea, several were sharing in his briefs before long, they def didn't soak up as much sweat as the American Eagle boxer briefs of the day. So in that niche setting, white breifs became popular again.
