Old Man Pants

[Spanielmadness]

Lighthearted - of course my DP can wear what he wishes and I would never tell him what he can or can’t wear...........

My DP and I have a debate - I think the slips he wears and declares so comfortable are ‘old man pants’. He disagrees and feels that any young man would be pleased to wear such a comfortable pant.

So please, wise ones of mumsnet - AIBU to declare these ‘old man pants’?

Kinky - are they on your car dshboard ?

My dad who is nearly 80 has a good selection of pants. My ds who is 38 does not.

No man under 60 would wear them - except my dh who says that nothing else is supportive enough!

Deffo old man pants, my 70 year old dad wears them. DH wears cotton boxers and DS wears trunks

They are what are known in this house as ‘man knickers’.

60 year old DH wouldn’t be seen dead in them.

Awful. He would not be getting any of the old in out.

My dh (under 60) also says nothing else is supportive enough. I will brook no interference in the sort of pants I wear (are you listening Mum?), so dh can wear whatever he feels are comfortable and supportive.

I have tried for decades to get him to try other pants, but having got him out of Y fronts, and having tried him in boxers, trunks etc, he always reverts to slips. Who am I to disagree?

My toddler wears similar pants. I thankfully don’t know what my dad wears but my OH would never wear these.

They are old man pants

Also man knickers 😂

My DH wears underpants after boxers caused some sort of complaint I can no longer remember. Anyway at the time I decided the problem was boxers were not supportive enough and bought him some Sloggi underpants and he liked them so much he made a permanent switch. They aren't particularly sexy but then neither are my high waisted Sainsbury’s knickers.

Ex-DH always wore these. I don't think they were "old man pants" when we first married, but that was in the 1990s! I did try to get him into boxers or those trunk-type things, but he wouldn't.
I think that yes, these days they're old man pants. When I was young old man pants were big y-fronts!
He also used to wear little Speedos on the beach, I hope to God that he doesn't still do that.

They look perfectly all right to me, but I know nothing about trends in men's pants!

What I think of as old man's pants are those awful white Y-fronts; the Jockey shorts things. Horrible.

old man pants

My dad (late sixties) wears these, as do my young children (5 and 7), with the addition of colourful dinosaurs/space monsters/pokemon and so forth. My husband (early forties) would recoil in horror.

LOLing at them possibly being on the car dashboard

Oh dear god those are awful

Have you been in my husbands knicker drawer?
I put away several identical pairs this very morning (although we don't usually display them on the car dash).
Oh yes, and he's 60 too, so deffo old mans pants.

It's what OH wears. He finds them comfy, that's what matters.

He doesn't tell me what knickers I should wear and I don't tell him.

The days of ripping each other's pants off in a frenzy are long gone...!

My son, who is considerably younger wouldn't be seen dead in them. I think DH purchases said pants from Matalan - just in case anyone was thinking of treating the man in their lives........

They are awful.

Let him wear whatever is comfortable/ he wants to wear. We would all be horrified if our partners posted a picture of our comfy pants on social media and a load of blokes commented that anything other than a lace thong were granny pants.

What's wrong with them? They're inoffensive, fairly plain pants. What's a man supposed to wear?

DH wears quite good pants - just Calvin Klein trunks - but my mum buys them for his for Christmas which is a bit odd....

Yup, my DH (in his 50s) wears those kinds. He thinks they're supportive and comfy.

And like FiveLittlePigs, he doesn't tell me what underwear l should have, so I leave him to his choice.

They are horrible. I prefer fitted trunks. But then I'm sure most men probably think my huge knickers aren't a turn on. Luckily I'm single so no one has to put up with knickers and I don't have to be a judgypants of men's undergarments.