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Can I just check that everyone puts their knickers on first?

436 replies

binnibonnieboo · 15/03/2026 19:49

Reading a novel, someone puts their bra on, then their knickers. This is so obviously wrong I'm not sure I can read any more. If they get this so wrong, then nothing in the novel is to be trusted! Nobody ever in the history of the universe has put on their bra before their knickers, surely?

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hopsalong · 15/03/2026 22:08

Knickers first in a communal changing room. Not that it matters to me, but it seems respectful to people who might.

Thankfully, those people do not stand round watching me get dressed at home! No fixed order. Sometimes I even put my clothes on without wearing one or t’other. (Never both, oddly. That seems a bit OTT.)

ScarlettSunset · 15/03/2026 22:08

tealandteal · 15/03/2026 21:39

I can almost understand those who have given their reasons for bra first, but to have no specific order! It’s knickers, bra, emotional support vest, deodorant. Then leg moisturiser, socks, trousers and then top/jumper. There is a specific order of when to do your teeth, apply skincare etc in there as well!

You put ANY clothes on and then moisturise your legs?
That is odd to me! I moisturise my legs, and other body areas that I feel need it, straight after a shower, before I get dressed at all....

Conniebygaslight · 15/03/2026 22:08

BookOfBritishBirds · 15/03/2026 19:51

Socks first if it is chilly

Are you a psychopath….? 🤣🤣🤣

JudgeJ · 15/03/2026 22:09

AdaDex · 15/03/2026 19:54

Depends how droopy your boobs are. You might need them out of the way first so the don't get accidentally tucked in your knickers........🤔

Ain't that the truth! If I'm not going out then it's knickers, Full stop! A wrenched should makes fastening a bra really painful at the moment so it needs to be an occasion for me to bother, not even Church this morning warranted a bra.

Conniebygaslight · 15/03/2026 22:09

Sprig1 · 15/03/2026 19:56

Knickers first is the only way. My husband takes his pants off before his t-shirt. Who does that?!

Omg so does mine….

KatsPJs · 15/03/2026 22:10

I actually mix and match - sometimes bra first and sometimes knickers first. And sometimes even socks before anything else!

KeeleyJ · 15/03/2026 22:11

Socks first, generally have them warming up on the radiator 😄.

KeeleyJ · 15/03/2026 22:12

Conniebygaslight · 15/03/2026 22:09

Omg so does mine….

Nothing more icky than seeing meat and 2 veg hanging down from the hem of a shirt 😂

JudgeJ · 15/03/2026 22:13

Bishbashbush · 15/03/2026 20:51

Knickers first! Can usually find comfy pants before I commit to the dreaded over shoulder boulder holder 🙄

Danke Herr Titslinger!

SugarMiceInTheRain · 15/03/2026 22:13

Always used to do pants first but now I have to put oestrogel on, I do bra and top on first, plus face moisturiser, whilst waiting for my legs to dry off enough tp put pants and trousers on. It does feel wrong though! 🤣

ChocolateMunchBunch · 15/03/2026 22:14

Conniebygaslight · 15/03/2026 22:08

Are you a psychopath….? 🤣🤣🤣

Years ago when I was backpacking, a German girl in our dorm always put her socks and shoes on first. Literally starkers, bending down to tie her shoelaces. Just so wrong.

Conniebygaslight · 15/03/2026 22:15

KeeleyJ · 15/03/2026 22:12

Nothing more icky than seeing meat and 2 veg hanging down from the hem of a shirt 😂

Too true…🤣🤣

CocoaTea · 15/03/2026 22:15

Bra first.

Conniebygaslight · 15/03/2026 22:15

ChocolateMunchBunch · 15/03/2026 22:14

Years ago when I was backpacking, a German girl in our dorm always put her socks and shoes on first. Literally starkers, bending down to tie her shoelaces. Just so wrong.

Good God! 🙈🙈🙈

ElizabethsTailor · 15/03/2026 22:17

Linenspots · 15/03/2026 22:07

Knickers over knockers most definitely.

If you can put your knickers over your knockers, you might want to put your bra on first to hoist them up 😁😉

StarlightLady · 15/03/2026 22:18

Bra first. I always work from to down.

MNLurker1345 · 15/03/2026 22:18

@JoeyJava, I asked for your order, interesting
and dare I say it, amusing. Why feeling broken?

There is a level light heartedness about this thread, MN at its best.

And @Linenspots ”knickers over knockers”, nothing more to be said. Did you make that up?

FloofBunny · 15/03/2026 22:19

DirtyGertiefromno30 · 15/03/2026 20:46

I agree with @FloofBunny
The amount of threads with the pooh troll , the peetroll , the oral and anal trolls, etc etc is unbelievable. You name it there seems to be a resident troll here for everything private and intimate . The amount of threads l hide immediately on reading the title it's about 70% of all threads .
However l didn't think this was one of those threads TBF.

Edited

Yes, there's a lot of prurience around here, and most are too innocent to see it.

brunettemic · 15/03/2026 22:20

ChaChaChaChanges · 15/03/2026 19:51

I like to start at the top and work down.

I’m picturing a cold winters day where you’ve put your woolly hat on before anything else 😂

ItsNotYou852 · 15/03/2026 22:20

Stepsisterfromhell · 15/03/2026 21:57

Bra first, of course.
Choose the bra for the outfit.
Then match the knickers to the bra.
It is the common sense way to do it, like jam before cream.

But surely you choose all the clothes first, lay them out on the bed bfore, then dress? You can't go drifting around the bedroom willy nilly choosing clothes as you go (and still knickerless) can you!

Everynamehasgone99 · 15/03/2026 22:20

I do sometimes but i feel really weird about it, and a bit like im doing something illegal.

Renamed · 15/03/2026 22:21

Now that trousers are all wide leg, I put on my socks and shoes before progressing to any underwear *

  • disclaimer - I do not do this
SuperSue77 · 15/03/2026 22:21

Whichever one I pick up first!

Renamed · 15/03/2026 22:23

Renamed · 15/03/2026 22:21

Now that trousers are all wide leg, I put on my socks and shoes before progressing to any underwear *

  • disclaimer - I do not do this

Oh god there’s already an example on this thread of someone really doing this!

BauhausOfEliott · 15/03/2026 22:23

binnibonnieboo · 15/03/2026 20:44

Sorry but this is even madder than bra first! Knickers, bra, vest, top. Jeans, socks. There is no other rational order. Who puts the jeans on before the bra? Leaving the top naked? Madness!

Correct.

Similarly, I once had a conversation with friends about whether we wear knickers in bed (really covering all the pressing issues with that conversation, clearly) and I said ‘Well, I usually sleep naked but sometimes I need to wear a non-wired bra in bed for support, so on those nights I wear knickers’ and my friend said ‘Well, you don’t need to wear knickers just because you’ve got a bra on’. Er… YES I DO, because I’m not a fucking psychopath.