To only ever wear granny pants

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For the last few years I have only worn grey white cotton Bridget Jones style knickers (I must stress I have many pairs - I don't keep wearing the same pair). I first discovered them during pregnancy and I just can't give them up. Dh mocks me and regularly suggests I should get some more alluring underwear, I also have vpl sometimes but tbh I don't really care because they are comfortable and don't give me thrush. AIBU not to make more effort in the underwear department?

I love my shorts-knickers.

(I also love my Evan's comfort shorts. I'm a size 14 -ok probably more a 16 post Easter Egg binge- and have legs that touch at the top. In the warmer weather I find this uncomfortable and always resorted to trousers or tunics and cropped leggings until I found the comfort shorts.

Another apple catcher gal here!

yep sloggi bigguns, in poudre

sooooooooo comfy and don't rub on cs scar or dig in

Just last week I threw out every pair of knickers I owned & replaced them all in an M&S frenzy. I couldn't go back to frilly little things though; the new ones are all full, big pants or shorts (not just any big pants, new M&S big pants...)

DP appears happy. I am happy. My CS scar is happy

I don't know what to suggest OP other than the fact you get used to whatever you wear and therefore feel comfortable in them.

If we all wore slippers everywhere for a month, we'd feel really uncomfortable in shoes.

If you're happy in your pants then go for it....if you're not then try something else for a few months and then the granny pants will eventually become the uncomfortable ones.

I feel like I'm letting the side down, but when I inadvertently bought granny pants a few weeks ago I rushed straight back to exchange them. I do have some of the Sloggi short style draws but other than those I like my fancy French underwear. I don't do cheese wires though.

When I was at school we had to wear navy blue sort of 'over-knickers' that had a little pocket in them for a hanky. The plain white 'under-knickers' (just ordinary granny pants) were called 'white linings'. Cue much puzzlement when the school clothing list first arrived. And it all had to be bought from DH EVans in Oxford St. Must be why I prefer the -very- full briefs to this day. Although these days I stick to just the one pair at a time.

Lacy knickers usually have cotton gussets so they should be ok for those with tendency to getting thrush, I would think?

I wear lacy French knickers or thongs and they are v.comfortable and as someone mentioned, dry really quickly.

God Topshelf we had over-nickers in navy for sports, stupid short skirts too.
I always wear full pants now...well after having twins I need somewhere to tuck-in the spare bits!!

just bought some today. Like to think of them as sort of 50's retro and quite stylish (who am I kidding?). Comfortable, warm and don't cause all those muffin like bulges under your clothes - what's not to like? Anyway, nothing attractive about thongs and skimpy pants on a 40 something with a few wobbly bits.

Boy shorts are the thing. You can get them in cotton. No wedgies, no rooting around, no visible lines under trousers. You can get them in lace or basic sporty styles and everything in between.

I wear boy short bikini and tankini bottoms too.

I would love some nice lacy numbers - the type that don't cut you in half. But they are sooo expensive. Is there anywhere that sells them cheaply?

Ooh, I love the big pants too. Although I would usually wear them with something like this. I love a good bralet and big pants combo.

OneOfMyTurns - M&S can be quite good for nice lacy bits (that are also comfy). Or Topshop. My personal favourite though, is La Perla, which I have gone mad on recently. Not cheap, but amazing and well worth the money.

Boy shorts here. Preferably with retro cartoon characters on. Nothing like facing a bad day ahead and putting on your Wonder Woman or She Ra pants on and feeling all empowered and RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! all day in them :)

I'm wearing my shera jammies right now.

My knickers are usually belly warmers nice pretty things though.

She Ra jammies??! Where from?

Ebay but I've just looked & they are not there any more

I found them though here

Sloggi all the way here. I used to get black but Matalan don't have them anymore.

Apart from Special Pants, which rarely see the light of day, i wear Sloggis. In fact Sloggies was my MN name, until I had an online stalker, such was my joy in them! I am inspired to try She Ra and M & S pants, given previous comments. Lesly33 have you been reading Mallory Towers?!

Jubilee I know, and Ethel Austin used to do them cheaply also....

YANBU

sloggi are great

yuck, I love nice underwear. Id feel like a tramp in big granny pants. Id be as likely to wear those as i would to go around in a tracksuit with uggboots/crocs.

I was sitting in on a conversation between 2 male colleagues (mid 40's and mid/late 50's) who were laughing/commiserating about that fact that 'women over a certain age' (i.e. their wives ages) only wore 'apple catchers'. I laughed as I'd not heard the term before but then found myself disagreeing..only to realise that it then meant it could only mean that I don't wear them! I had nowhere to go after that....

YANBU. Wear what you like - it's still a free country (just). But I couldn't bear it myself due to having had to wear thick navy cotton waist-highs during my formative years as dictated by my convent school. I've been rebelling ever since. I've just bought eight pairs of silky black Autograph high-legs (I'm a short-arse) in the M&S sale to replenish my stocks and they're surprisingly comfortable.

But I gather many men find those big pants strangely erotic - or should that be strange men find those pants erotic?