I'm looking for shorts to wear under skirts, because I've got fat legs that rub together in the heat and give me painful rashes otherwise.
Ordinary sports or fashion shorts are too thick, but everything I can find that is intended to be worn as underwear is made of really tight elastic or lycra - like cycling shorts, or all the 'shapewear' (thigh slimmers, etc). The idea and the look of the thigh-slimming shorts is fine, tight enough round the legs so that they don't ride up and cause even more chafing, but the elastication just makes them super hot and sweaty, and also if they're elasticated tightly at the waist (as even the biggest sizes seem to be), then it just creates up huge bulge over top, which is Not A Good Look.
Years ago I found some cotton shorts, that were meant to be like an underslip, for this very purpose. They were fitted like cycling shorts, stretchy/tight enough that they stayed in place on your thighs, but otherwise just made of ordinary knicker sort of fabric, with just ordinary elastic at the top, no tighter than normal knickers (especially if you go for a big size). But I've not seen them anywhere lately.
Anyone seen these anywhere? Preferably I'd like to be able to try them on rather than order them (I live in a city with plenty of shops, all the ordinary high street and department stores).
(I've tried the various gels, too, which help for very short amounts of time, but not enough to be out for a couple of hours wandering around, at least not on a hot day).
I hate that I seem to be the only one of my friends who has this - they have no idea what I'm talking about, even ones who are fatter than me. But I've always had it, even when I was a size 10 (briefly). Must be something about the way some people are shaped and/or walk, I guess. It makes me feel hideous.