Great Underwear Search of ’08 — Update 1

Well folks, back to the old draw­ing board.  Surely you didn’t think it would be that easy?

I put the Alfani briefs into the wash last night (don’t worry, I had a full load of whites to run).  This morn­ing I got the report:  the waist­band fit fine but the actual briefs were loose.

You know, I really don’t get clothes’ man­u­fac­tur­ers.  Do they not use real peo­ple to come up with the designs for their clothes?  I’d hon­estly for­got­ten how dif­fi­cult it is to find clothes designed to fit human beings instead of mannequins.  All of those years of dress­ing my kids in Hanna Ander­s­son togs really spoiled us.

The Son, though slim, has a fairly clas­sic physique.  He’s not overly skinny (like his cousin) and, unlike so many males (includ­ing his own dad), he has a rear end.

I can only imag­ine what this Great Under­wear Search of ’08 is going to entail — both in time and money.     At least we’ve already done the work of ensur­ing that clas­sic briefs are def­i­nitely the style of choice.  Tra­di­tional boxer shorts were rejected sev­eral years ago — loosey, goosey is sim­ply not for The Son.  I have to admit I still don’t fully under­stand his rejec­tion of boxer briefs — they’re so sim­i­lar to the slid­ing shorts he wears for base­ball and bas­ket­ball and he’s had no trou­ble adjust­ing to those.  I would have thought that boxer briefs would be per­fect:  the same fit with­out the cup.  But no.

If any­one out there has any brand sug­ges­tions, please speak up.    

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