How do people not have a knicker line?

[SaltyLemons]

I see women in leggings or jersey trousers with short tops and they don't have a VPL. how?!?! Please tell me I don't have to resort to thongs

Thongs are vulgar.

No underwear is really unhygienic both for the individual and anyone else who has to use the same seating given all women have discharge and whatever.

Just wear normal underwear. I've never understood the notion that one is supposed to be ashamed to be known to be wearing knickers.

I’m the same and cannot understand the hate for them! 🤣

Thongs are not vulgar and are "normal underwear."

I don't wear them so no knicker line.

This reminds me of my Mum's oft-quoted saying while patting my bum as a child:

'Must be jelly cos jam don't shake like that'.

I think VPL depends on whether your bum is more like a peach, a jelly, or squishy like jam.

Peachy = no VPL ever.
Jelly = prone to VPL but seamless can work.
Jam = squidgy bulges, VPL guaranteed.

Nowadays mine is jam, regardless of my knicker choice.

Big pants that sit on the waist and stop beneath the bum. Sorted. Also, good quality leggings shouldn't show your knickers.

I've been here for too long because I clicked on this thinking it was a whole new chapter in MN laundry-line etiquette.

i was going to say, I just peg my knickers at the end of the line furthest from sight

Thongs are bad for hygiene, aren't they?
I just have a VPL and people can deal with it.
But you could try those knickers that come right down your leg. I'm sure M&S do some, and probably Primark and John Lewis among others too.

Bad in what way?

I think they act like a 'wick' and draw bacteria that are supposed to live in the anus forward towards the vagina, and maybe vice versa as well.

Knicker lines are fine these days. We are allowed to wear knickers again.

If l wore 2 sizes too big they’d come up to my tits!

I'd definitely be probing for data on buying habits too if I knew someone in that line of work.

Interesting though. And @rumblegrumble I'm with you. Way more comfy. I assumed most (under 50s at least) would be the same.

Learn something every day!

These big cotton ones from Matalan in a size 18, I'm a 14. I just keep buying them, the thing in the same style is also very comfortable, but two sizes up again.

£7.50 for a 4 pack.

www.matalan.co.uk/lingerie/lingerie/4-pack-lace-trim-bwn-full-black-white/14709914.html

😂😂😂

I just have a knicker line.

Nobody's perfect! I've never had any comments about it.

I once had someone comment on mine. They asked if I had rope edging on my pants.

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Some people!!!

Maybe we should start a thong appreciation thread 😂

I would like to assure those who are concerned about hygiene that I do tend to wear something overtop if I'm sitting in public places. Obviously. (And in any case, I don't emit so much discharge that it drips through my underwear onto furniture. I didn't know that was a thing 😕)

I don't think the problem is seeing knicker lines per se. It's more than the lines create lumpy bumps, with the flesh under the knickers being a slightly lower level to the flesh outside the knickers. So you get lumpy bum cheeks. It's not the seams as such that are the problem.

I was once told that wearing a summer dress without knickers was a risk to others, because there was only one layer of fabric between me and the outside world. 🙃

I don't see why. I buy the shorts style which sit well below the navel, even two sizes up.

I can't imagine caring about a knicker line tbh. And I think thongs are the work of the devil.

Never yet worn a thong that was comfy. They ride up and just feel unhygienic

https://www.belladinotte.com/chantelle-soft-stretch-no-vpl-full-brief-black

I wear these knickers pretty much all the time. No VPL. I have about ten black pairs and a few printed ones (leopard, zebra) and wear them with black bralette/crop top things from Thought.

In the summer I wore quite a few pairs of pyjama style trousers (stripy or gingham wide-leg) and bought nude thongs and matching bralettes from Primark for with those. I’m a 10/12 and sized right up to large in them, so they were really comfy!

Per pp I don’t actually care if people know I wear pants, really.