# About the Pope?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-pope/820016>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 22, 2018, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-pope/820016 "2018-08-22T02:41:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-pope/820016/21 "2018-08-22T22:48:24Z")

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> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> Do elderly men always wear boxers? I know, I know I’m sheltered.🙂

It seems to switch back and forth by generations. About the time boys begin buying their own underwear, about when they become adolescents, most seem to want to do the opposite of what their father & his generation did. So the style switches around.

As a baby-boomer, boxers were ‘what old men wore’, so I wore briefs. Now, young millennials think that of briefs, so they wear boxers. And there’s a group of compromisers who wear boxer-briefs.

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**Author:** ![yo\_han\_go](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yo_han_go/32/130_2.png) [@yo\_han\_go](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yo_han_go)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-pope/820016/22 "2018-08-22T22:49:11Z")

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So what wears Pope under the long skirt? I believe applies the same as for the Scotsmen. The future of Vatican. (God have mercy on my lost Catholic soul). Well, at least at some point in history that was true.

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-pope/820016/23 "2018-08-23T01:14:21Z")

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Actually, there is a factual answer to this:

According to [WWD](https://wwd.com/eye/people/pope-francis-simple-style-statement-10235021/), the Pope wears the same thing as most other men.

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> Under the sober cassock, Francis wears a shirt, a sweater and pants. In spring time, he wears the “pellegrina,” which is a short mantel open on the front, sewn on the robe, always white.

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-pope/820016/24 "2018-08-23T12:15:07Z")

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> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> Do elderly men always wear boxers? I know, I know I’m sheltered.🙂

Depends. My dad and my maternal grandfather wore thighty-whiteys, but they were from Spain, where Abanderado sold those by the truckful for decades before those fancy colorful foreign things made a dent in the market.

We actually refer to both tighty-whiteys and wife-beater shirts as Abanderados, like the brand (_Abanderados_ for the lower half, _camiseta de Abanderado_ for the upper).

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-pope/820016/25 "2018-08-23T12:32:24Z")

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> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> Do elderly men always wear boxers? I know, I know I’m sheltered.🙂

> [@Nava](#):
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> Depends.

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