I wear big comfy pants. I’d like to understand why people wear uncomfortable looking underwear

I don't get women who find bras uncomfortable and prefer taking theirs off all the time (and I have small boobs)

Or people who buy jeans so uncomfortable they cant' wear them when working from home.

Comfort is a very individual thing it seems! I don't love thongs, but I can completely understand if they are someone else's favourite. I find granny pants even uncomfortable in bed!

I'm 50 and don't wear lacy thongs but find cotton hipster shorts and Brazilian cotton pants (which are fairly brief but not thongs) very comfortable.

Personally I like wearing small pants now I don't have to think about periods! Like having a small handbag or no bag at all now I'm past the mum carrying everything phase.

I've never ever worn big tummy warmer pants, even when I was pregnant. I don't find them comfortable at all and certainly wouldn't want to risk something poking out the top of my jeans or skirt.

Every day I learn something new from this forum. Today it is that some people find thongs comfortable. Just, how?

😂 only in the MN universe
a woman who finds thongs the most comfortable CHOICE for them and who is perfectly cabable of wiping their own arse really sets the pearl clutchers off on here

But I do think that thoughtful dressing (if you have that luxurious choice) makes the world a nicer place

WTF are you on about? what is thoughtful dressing? i've never heard so much clap trap in all my life. I think you need to think less.

I hate thongs on me, also hate seeing thong swimwear on others

Nothing wrong with my hygiene.
I just hope all the thong wearers keep theirs up to scratch.

How bad is your hygiene that you would think that things need to be binned after one wear? Ugh.

I've posted on a few threads this morning, not just ones about underwear - although why as a woman you think I don't have a right to a view on womens underwear is beyond me. Unless of course it's because my views don't chime with yours so I should just keep quiet?

What you have done, admirably, is demonstrate the advisibility of frequent name changes on MN. To stop other posters, such as yourself, stalking them.

People do a lot of stuff that I don't understand. Because everyone is different, and we can all choose what we prefer.

I couldn't care less what kind of undercrackers folk wear. It's a personal thing and nobody else's business.

Just do you, OP.

Sloggi are my friend!

I started getting all my pants and bra tops from Boody (soooo soft). I will now never go back and if they go out of business I will cry.

When I was a teen it was all the rage to wear thongs. I remember once my mate saying "my pants are going up my bum" I said but you wear thongs and she said "yeah that's the one thing I can't stand about them, they go up your bum" I think she thought they weren't meant to...

I’m not stalking anyone. Like you, I’ve seen two threads and posted on them. I merely noticed you on both because you’ve been noticeably weird, angry, judgmental and insulting across multiple posts on both of them.

oh, jealousy!

Of course, it all makes sense now 😂. Why else would anyone have an opinion on what other women are wearing.
😂
What's next? Black is acceptable but red makes us look like harlots? 😂

I’m also a comfy pant wearer. I only bust out my sexy ones when I know I’m likely to be having some sexy time. I’ve never understood thongs. I used to wear them as a teenager cos I thought that’s just what all girls did but it was like having a permanent wedgy. I suspect the women who wear them wear them cos they like feeling sexy or something maybe?

Absolutely this.

There’s a certain type of person on Mumsnet who seems to think that any woman who likes clothes, underwear, makeup etc is just a shallow fool making herself miserable to please men. Heaven forbid women might just want to express themselves through their style and have their own aesthetic preferences, eh?

The implied connection between plain/non-revealing clothes and moral/intellectual superiority is essentially the same message spouted by misogynist fundamentalist religions that oppress women. It’s Handmaid’s Tale stuff, frankly.

Well do you know I was actually wondering why there are two threads about women's underwear started on MN today. I wonder if there is some agenda.

Perhaps you should look at why you are stalking my posts from thread to thread before you start pointing the finger at me for weird MN behaviour.

BTW I'm not telling women they are unhygienic. I am saying that thongs, at the very least, have the potential to be unhygienic. There is a big difference. And is a widely held view .

And perhaps you should be addressing your point about being obsessed with women's knickers to the OP's who started the threads rather than singling out individual posters who post on their threads

also heard that narrative from fake-concerned bitter people crying over poor girls feeling they have to wear uncomfortable sports bras and tight shorts at the gym. Newsflash, if we wear them, it's because they ARE more comfortable, not restrictive, and you are less hot.

Pretty much the female equivalent of what men wear.

Why does it sting so bad to know that many women happened to look good in the process, because they like the clothes or find them more comfy, and it has NOTHING to do with male gaze.

Pretty sure many gay women don't wear clothes based on local men's opinion.

I mean the clue is in the 'looking' part of your sentence isn't it? You don't get to tell someone else her knickers are uncomfortable if you're not the one wearing them!

I just really feel that people's underwear choices are a matter for them.

Thongs still cover the vulva, you just don't get a VPL. I find them comfortable, I dont even feel them.

I’ve never felt comfortable in thongs even as a teenager so I could never understand it, as I’ve got older I’ve just accepted we can all experience human bodies differently, what we like, what feels good to us. Like how we all have tastebuds but like different foods

@SomethingblandYou’re on another thread today too making weird, angry judgements about women who wear ‘sexy’ lingerie. On that thread you seem to think they’re all vacuous and porn-addled and pandering to dodgy men. On this thread you’re telling women they’re unhygienic and weird.

Anyone would think you’ve got some serious issues around other women, because all I’m seeing is a weird internalised misogyny around women who don’t meet your very specific, pseudo-feminist ideals.

My suggestion to you is that you should perhaps find something more important to worry about than other people’s knickers.

It's not just me saying they have the potential to cause infections!

The advisibility or not of regularly wearing thongs - and actually tight underwear in general - is a long standing and well known debate .

I don’t find big pants comfortable, nor do I like thongs, Brazilian pants or shorts or high rise pants.

I only wear one specific type of knickers that cover my bum but don’t have hard elastic that digs into my thighs.