To only want to wear big granny pants (tho some way off being granny)

[girlwithapearl]

Maybe it's just me, but I cannot bear a pair of knickers which doesn't actually cover my arse AKA the dreaded g-string. Was reminded of this at the weekend when DH took me out for dinner to celebrate wedding anniversary. Wore slinky dress which necessitated pants that, quite frankly, barely cover anything. As we were walking along the street, I just wanted to keep hoiking them out from between my butt crack. Not great. Couldn't wait to get my big granny pants on the next day. I think in M and S parlance they are known as full brief.

I love my big pants too. I bought some great big ones a size too big to wear after c-section and I've never looked back.

OH hates them though, he calls them 'apple-catchers'

Also, I used to get cystitis a lot in my younger thong wearing days, and never do now!

I haven't quite reached full brief territiry yet- but I'm definitely halfway there. I think the ones I wear are called high leg briefs.

I do have a couple of thongs lurking at the back of the drawer and made the mistake-once-of taking one to wear at karate. I'll leave it to your imagination the feeling of a thong wedgie whilst performing kicks and stretching......

I've got a pair of M & S magic knickers which are great for tummy-sucking and bottom covering purposes but they kept rolling up the thighs, which was a tad uncomfy.

plumprump i wear the high leg briefs too , dh calls them " homer Simpson jocks "
he is always nagging me to wear skimpy knickers

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I don't think my dh would notice, tbh. If they're not overtly 'sexy underwear' he blanks them out.......

Hate g strings and things. Have a couple of pairs and one each about once.

I prefer bigger pants - high leg type variety rather than the full briefs, and preferable in either white or black ctton, and I do like the M&S seamless ones. They are far more comfortable and generally more practical. Have som nice shorts styles one too, which are similar.

Think DD is taking after me, lol. She is only 7y but already has a huge preference for bigger pants, rather than little skimpy efforts. She always goes a size bigger than she needs too, lol

But why big pants? I am not a fan of G-strings either, but surely there are plenty of options on the spectrum between thongs and granny pants?

Boy-ish pants? French knickers? low-rise briefs?

There must be a middle ground

I love my big pants - so comfy and all encompassing! Coupled with a lovely vest so no midriff/back shows and I'm ready to face the day everyday!

minervaitalica - but you then have to watch out for the ones that cut your tummy in half.

minervaitilica there is no middle ground that doesn't go up your bum in my experience.

I have tried thongs, high legs, shorts, sloggi (not the full ones). All made their way up my bum after about 1 minute. I have now completely given up and live happily in big pants.

I suspect it has something to do with my sagging bottom strange shape

G-strings and thongs are torture devices! My DDs call them "wedgy knickers"

Sod the VPL and go for the big knickers - the more voluminous the better!

I like boyshorts, because they go pretty far up on the tummy, but also extend a little down the leg, which is warmer, and also has the effect of no panty line under skirts.

I'm a recent convert to m&s lace no vpl shorts - sexy and comfy. Asda do similar ones too.
I always wear big knickers, I only own one tiny pair - see through chiffon tie side frillies, tie sided so they can come off esily when wearing basque/stockings. Hubby like to work "around them" though, it took him 3 times of me wearing them to realise they untied!
He wears jersey boxers but had to wear pants for the 1st time in 30 years recently when he had the snip, he HATED them but I think they look quite sexy, I tried to persuade him to take some on holiday but he didn't.

Agree re: tummy cut in half - big problem for me too (pre and post DD!). I just get for the ones with an elastic that is not that tight - sloggis are a no no as far as I am concerned

I have quite a few knickers that do not go up your bum actually - low rise, black cotton, bought in Italy. But they are not supertight around the bum though so if you like them that way they are not for you!

Cotton boyshorts/grannies for everyday wear. Keep the other stuff for "special" occasions.

If need no panty lines - go commando baby!

I am 29 and i love my 'belly smackers' i have never owned a thong or g-string and don't intend to. My friend says they are like cheese wire up your bum! No thanks i like my comfort too much.

Never understood why VPL is such a no no tbh - so people know I'm wearing knickers bf deal

Can't believe we've got this far through this conversation without reference to Caitlin 'Arse-Trinkets' Moran's seminal piece on the subject last year - here she is full flow on the topic of 'sexy' pants:

'Women, this manner of underwear cannot be an act of sanity. Why are we starving our bottoms of the resources ? like an extra metre of material ? to stay comfortable? Why have we succumbed to pantorexia? It is, of course, all a symptom of women?s continuing, demented belief that, at any moment, they might face some snap inspection of their ?total hotness,? and have to reveal their underwear to a baying crowd, possibly featuring George Clooney. In this respect, women have communally lost all reason. Ladies! On how many occasions in the past year have you needed to wear sexy pants? In other words, to break this right down, how many times this year have you suddenly, unexpectedly, had sex in a brightly lit room, with a hard-to-please erotic connoisseur? Exactly. On those kind of odds, you might just as well be keeping a backgammon board down there, to entertain a group of elderly ladies in the event of emergencies. It?s more likely to happen.'

The full rant is here and should be printed in 48 pt Times New Roman font and pinned up over every woman's knicker drawer.

i haven't had any kids, but i wear m&s midi briefs (not quite granny pants). oh says they're sexy.

and if i have a special occasion, i wear even bigger knickers: this is because they have NO vpl at all!! they cover all the way from your waist to your thighs, they rest on the bit that bends, so there is no line there either! how is a thing that digs in somewhere along your bum and across your belly invisible?
no! big knickers every time!

i agree with miss sunny - I just can't bring myself to do granny pants - and I don't find thongs uncomfy - i suppose i'm used to them.
Byt then I have to match bra and knickers or I don't feel right so i guess I'm a bit weird!! grin

i agree with miss sunny - I just can't bring myself to do granny pants - and I don't find thongs uncomfy - i suppose i'm used to them.
Byt then I have to match bra and knickers or I don't feel right so i guess I'm a bit weird!!

I have some big pants which are sexy in a kind of 1940s way. Sadly I lack the burlesquey legs to go with them. Mine are pale blue and ovoid, which mars the effect.

I loooooooooooooooooooved Caitlin Moran. There's another article she wrote about aging which I personally believer EVERY woman in the world should read, every time she gets concerned about a wrinkle or grey hair: amazing

Also. It's too near poo, really, isnt' it? I'm as fastidiously wiped as the next person who has to poo and pants up in under 14 seconds to avoid 3 yr old meltdown - but I don't like the idea one jot. I'm struggling to imagine a situation in which I'd be happy to have string rubbing on my anus.