Naked Underwear Day

Did you miss National Underwear Day? I guess there is also an International Underwear Day too, or else people in other countries don't wear underwear. Yuk! How did this underwear holiday get started? Freshpair, a big underwear seller, founded National Underwear Day on August 5th, 2003. Originally it was a New York City model event with massive underwear giveaways, and a Times Square runway show. But that has expanded. My native New Orleans does it big that day.  Parade happy New Orleans has a big underwear parade on August 5th.

Besides an opportunity to see shapely and not shapely people in their underwear. The New Orleans parade attempts to set a new Guinness World Record for the 'Largest Gathering of People Wearing Only Underpants/Knickers'. Why, I am not sure. But goals are goals. At least wearing only your underwear in August won't freeze your butt. I suspect that most of the participants are younger people with more pleasing body images. I hope so. If you ever saw the Naked Bike Ride participants, for instance, you'll most remember not the hot, sexy babe on the bike, but rather, the old, fat fart. Train wrecks leave lasting images.

National Underwear Day aside, the most common question men and women get is, "What kind of underwear do you wear"? The boxer versus briefs subject reveals a personality trait, I suspect. Real men don't wear briefs. And can you imagine the wine steward who uncorks that $1000 bottle of wine at the city's most expensive restaurant wearing briefs underneath his tuxedo? This is not to say that whatever a man wears underneath is suit is clean.  A woman would never wear "dirty underwear". But a man takes it as a badge of honor to do so.

As for women, they seem to refer ":lacy underwear" more than men. It's supposed to impress the man who is at heart uninterested in how lacy a woman's underwear is. Most men are only interested in getting the lady's underpants off, not in looking or feeling them. This explains why There are no Victoria Secret stores selling only male undergarments. Men are practical about underwear. We wear it for comfort and protection, not for show. What really distresses us is when our women buy us and force us to wear those underpants with hearts on them or Santa's picture at Christmas.  They should keep their silly underpants to themselves!