MetaFilter posts tagged with underwear

Consent is Sexy

Gordafarin — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:39:53 -0800

Victoria's Secret has a new line of feminist-friendly underwear: PINK ♥s Consent. Except not really -- it's a hoax site created by FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture. The internet's response has been tremendous.

Ye olde breastbags

Egg Shen — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:30:04 -0800

A team of Austrian archaeologists has discovered four bras from the 1400s. It reveals that women wore the garment some 500 years before fashion historians thought it was invented.

How to Undress a Victorian Lady in Your Next Historical Romance

reenum — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:48:09 -0800

Deanne Gist helps romance novel authors learn the mechanics of Victorian era women's underwear.

It's a purr-fect night for a heist.

XhaustedProphet — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:27:24 -0800

When the sun goes down, it's time to hit the streets. Dusty is a cat burglar.

The Secret Life Of Syrian Lingerie

artof.mulata — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:43:10 -0800

"The more religious an area is, the more risqué the underwear becomes. I think that Muslim women have less freedom on the outside so to compensate they have more freedom on the inside." Journalist Malu Halasa and designer Rana Salam have produced a tome on "the most outrageous lingerie in the world."

in case of emergency: remove bra

Potomac Avenue — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 06:39:57 -0800

The Emergency Bra: "We can save not only our own lives, but also a man of our choice next to us."

What Lies Beneath

unSane — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:37:20 -0800

Happy National Underwear Day, everyone.

Underwear!

dame — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:57:31 -0800

Manpacks. The underwear-replacement start-up.

The Pink Chaddi Campaign

homunculus — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:00:20 -0800

The Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women of India want to celebrate Valentine's Day by sending pink chaddis (underwear) to the right-wing Hindu group Sri Ram Sena. The group says it is "not acceptable" for women to go to bars in India, and members attacked a group of women at a bar last month. They have also threatened to attack couples who publicly celebrate Valentine's Day. [Via]

Dance of the Young Girls -- Stravinsky

wittgenstein — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:54:31 -0800

(SLYTP-filter) What choreography goes best with Igor Stravinsky's "Dance of the Young Girls" from his Rite of Spring? If you clicked on this and don't know about the Rite of Spring - start here. More choreography by Angelin Preljocal - here.

Is it cool to work in your underwear - or is it not?

janetplanet — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:07:33 -0800

Is it cool to work in your underwear - or is it not?

The Gays Are Getting Married

brownpau — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:54:48 -0800

It's All Because. Have you ever had those days where you're wondering just why everything about your life is feeling like it's going down the toilet bowl? Oded Gross knows, and he will tell you all about it. In a song.

Intimate reading - corset books

madamjujujive — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:38:50 -0800

Corset books - recycle your underwear as art? To explore issues related to women's body image, Tamar Stone creates books from "corrective" women's undergarments. (via art for housewives)

tyrants gone wild?

ackeber — Fri, 20 May 2005 11:11:37 -0800

Saddam in his Underwear. No, this isn't a flash cartoon.

Make sure it's clean!

lychee — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 03:42:59 -0800

Beyond boxers or briefs: Undergarments vary much more than the current styles we find in the nearest haberdashery department or at Victoria's Secret. Mormons have the temple garment. Suffragettes invented bloomers, the next bold step after pantaloons. But throughout modern Western history, women tended to wear dress-like undergarments, (with or without accompanying drawers) though both 19th century men and women wore the union suit, an earlier type of long-johns.

Of course, there's always the earliest of them all, the loincloth, worn by the ancient Egyptians and Tarzan. Similar is the malo worn by some Pacific Islanders, the Japanese fundoshi (warning: excess of manflesh), and the more elaborate Indian dhoti, the male companion to the sari.

And we mustn't forget the bra! Though not a lower-body garment, it has had a long--if tumultuous--history worthy of quick mention.

Spiky Bras! Wheee!

E_B_A — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:35:12 -0800

Do you like boobs? Do you like spikes? How about boobs that look like blowfish? Spiky Bras is an innovative concept, to say the least. Bras (and other, related underthings) covered with spikes. Why not? Give people the impression you have 300, 400 nipples! But why stop there? They have feathery bras and flowery bras and men's underpants that talk (ie. "I'm a horny 'lil devil!"). This may seem crass and juvenile but nothing is as cool as the glowing cactus that now tops my Christmas list. The site is relatively SWF, that is, if you think looking at pictures of boobs stuffed in bras covered with what looks like white, plastic Hershey's kisses is safe for your workplace.

2004 Captured in Song

debralee — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 04:43:29 -0800

Underwear Goes Inside The Pants (video) is a nice little ditty about the condition of the world in 2004.

Dirty Money

bluno — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:25:53 -0800

"The "Brief Safe" is an innovative new diversion safe that can secure your cash, documents, and other small valuables from inquisitive eyes and thieving hands, both at home and when you're traveling. Items can be hidden right under their noses..." [via Aces]

Free at Last!

Oriole Adams — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:51:25 -0800

Wouldn't this chafe or something? I'm presuming the less than technical language is a result of translating difficulties...or is this a joke? Is, um, family jewel confinement a common source of discomfort for men? (NSFW)

Lesbians move product!

jonson — Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:03:29 -0800

Do men deserve it? A new commercial for lingerie airing in the UK shows an attractive woman getting ready for her date (putting on a number of sexy unmentionables), then walking by all the men at the bar to kiss her equally lovely girlfriend, sitting alone waiting for her. The tagline implies the lingerie is too sexy to waste on men. (warning: Quicktime)

Padded Butt Brief

grumblebee — Fri, 03 Jan 2003 15:01:11 -0800

Padded Butt Brief. Too bad I prefer boxers.

Newbornstranger — Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:02:28 -0800

Well, I know somebody out there in Mefi land will find some use for fifty years of underwear advertising and packaging... I know I did.

Under-Ease:

mosspink — Tue, 30 Jul 2002 09:09:47 -0800

Under-Ease: Say hello to flatulence filters—kinda like Brita technology for the other end.

alan — Sun, 28 Jul 2002 08:30:05 -0800

Dan Savage and sixty nine other (mostly) men want to know who looks best in their tighty whities. [background info]

Decision 2002

nicholm — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 07:54:12 -0800

Decision 2002 Friends! The time for action is now. Will you let your voice be heard?