# Business casual pants for a fat girl that won't cause crotch-stink after 8 hours? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 10, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-casual-pants-for-a-fat-girl-that-wont-cause-crotch-stink-after-8-hours/574184 "2011-03-10T15:46:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-casual-pants-for-a-fat-girl-that-wont-cause-crotch-stink-after-8-hours/574184/61 "2011-03-12T01:15:02Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Or, some of us just don’t want to think about someone’s sweaty, stinky crotch? That’s a wee more TMI, no matter the weight of the OP. I, for one, sometimes spend hours thinking about “someone’s sweaty, stinky crotch.” ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-casual-pants-for-a-fat-girl-that-wont-cause-crotch-stink-after-8-hours/574184/62 "2011-03-12T01:36:07Z")
Threads like these make me kinda want to ask questions about my vag, too. But then, I’m drunk. And I’m still not going to. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-casual-pants-for-a-fat-girl-that-wont-cause-crotch-stink-after-8-hours/574184/63 "2011-03-12T02:11:12Z")
> [@Landlord withholding deposit in IL. I could use some advice](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/landlord-withholding-deposit-in-il-i-could-use-some-advice/573742/22): > > Okay I just checked my mail. She claims now that I caused the rollout bed to smell bad so she plans on replacing the whole thing (which is categorically impossible, her sheet stayed on it the 3 months I used it, and I put a futon mattress+another sheet of my own on top of it). But even if I had caused the bed to smell, which I didn’t, she would only have cause to replace the mattress, not the whole frame+mattress assembly. Are you sure it’s not something medical? You posted another issue about body odor here. Maybe you want to get checked out just to be sure? ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-casual-pants-for-a-fat-girl-that-wont-cause-crotch-stink-after-8-hours/574184/64 "2011-03-12T10:01:10Z")
Wanna know something funny? I always assumed you were skinny. You know, because of the two oblique angles. (I assume you have two vertical sides for some reason.) No, really! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-casual-pants-for-a-fat-girl-that-wont-cause-crotch-stink-after-8-hours/574184/65 "2011-03-12T10:22:37Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Are you sure it’s not something medical? You posted another issue about body odor here. Maybe you want to get checked out just to be sure? Didn’t she say she had [hyperandrogenism](http://www.fpnotebook.com/gyn/Endo/Hyprndrgnsm.htm), citing it as why she has a problem losing weight (a symptoms mentioned in the link)? That link also mentions a problem with malodorous perspiration. It calls it “male sweat problems”, but earlier it used male to mean similar to that of a male, rather than occurring on a male. And there are antiperspirant/deodorants for this purpose. If it’s not the genital itself, you can actually get by using with underarm deodorant, though I’d use a weaker one first to make sure you don’t get a rash. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-casual-pants-for-a-fat-girl-that-wont-cause-crotch-stink-after-8-hours/574184/66 "2011-03-12T20:03:49Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > No, but calling them that is in the US. It’s probably been more than 60 years since people commonly used the term. Knickers in UK and Australia and probably the rest of the British Commonwealth means underpants. And wearing them is not quaint. Please wear them. Or at least don’t try on clothes without wearing them… ---
**Author:** ![Lightlystarched](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Lightlystarched](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightlystarched)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-casual-pants-for-a-fat-girl-that-wont-cause-crotch-stink-after-8-hours/574184/67 "2011-03-12T20:21:56Z")
I have one pair of pants that seem to get stinky too. All of my nice work pants can be worn at least twice (and sometimes thrice) before needing to be washed, but I have this one pair of black slacks that just seem to get funky. Which is too bad because they are so comfortable, I just can’t bring myself to pitch them. I only wear them on days I know I won’t be seeing many people, or leaving the desk much. I just went and looked at the tags. My nicer pants are 68% cotton, 30% polyester and 2% rayon. The stinky ones are 95% polyester. I guess manmade materials just don’t breathe and tend to trap body moisture. All those guys in the 70’s on the disco floor must have been rank. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-casual-pants-for-a-fat-girl-that-wont-cause-crotch-stink-after-8-hours/574184/68 "2011-03-12T22:45:05Z")
A few years ago, I walked across the parking lot with a co-corker for lunch. While we were eating our fast food, it starting raining. She was stuck, couldn’t go back to work. White cotton pants and nothing under 'em, it seems. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-casual-pants-for-a-fat-girl-that-wont-cause-crotch-stink-after-8-hours/574184/69 "2011-03-12T22:48:19Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > I just ordered some stuff from Old Navy, and the fine print on the receipt said that anything from Old Navy Plus Sizes or from Piperlime (their shoe brand) can be returned for free. [I was going to say they’ll take it back at the brick & mortar store](http://oldnavy.gap.com/customerService/info.do?cid=3325&mlink=null,2178773&clink=2178773), but that excludes stuff marked ‘return by mail only’. Go ahead and guess which group of products are so marked. Yeah, I’ll wait… :mad: At least the returns are free. ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-casual-pants-for-a-fat-girl-that-wont-cause-crotch-stink-after-8-hours/574184/70 "2011-03-12T23:57:56Z")
[Here.](http://www.antimonkeybutt.com/) This will help. It eliminates the usual chafing and sweating issues. If you are still stinky then you have a medical issue to be addressed. Used properly this completely prevents stinky man nuts, and I work outside, physically, underwearless in florida. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-casual-pants-for-a-fat-girl-that-wont-cause-crotch-stink-after-8-hours/574184/71 "2011-03-13T00:36:16Z")
That is the greatest product name ever, Acid ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-casual-pants-for-a-fat-girl-that-wont-cause-crotch-stink-after-8-hours/574184/72 "2011-03-13T00:37:48Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Or, some of us just don’t want to think about someone’s sweaty, stinky crotch? That’s a wee more TMI, no matter the weight of the OP. Nope no worse than the many instances of pimple porn around here. Although those threads haven’t come up much lately. The idea of the …stuff coming out. That is much much more disgusting than an unpleasant odor. Maybe it’s because I GET what the OP is talking about. Polyester is the devil, Rayon is it’s stinky sister, and adding cotton blend underwear to the mix would have my stuff a little less fresh than I’d like. It’s the warm environment, the friction of the britches. I would say it’s even worse if the pants are loose, not tighter. At least for me. But I’m 100% every day now so don’t worry I won’t go stinking up the place like the OP. I think it’s not coming from the inside of our vaginas, by the way. It’s between the legs, in the creases. Sometimes underboob can have the same smell if you’ve gone braless and slovenly a few days. Which I will fully admit to doing. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-casual-pants-for-a-fat-girl-that-wont-cause-crotch-stink-after-8-hours/574184/73 "2011-03-13T01:17:48Z")
> [@Darth\_Nader](#): > > A few years ago, I walked across the parking lot with a co-corker for lunch. While we were eating our fast food, it starting raining. She was stuck, couldn’t go back to work. Wow, so you had to stop up bottles single-handedly for the rest of the day? Bummer. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-casual-pants-for-a-fat-girl-that-wont-cause-crotch-stink-after-8-hours/574184/74 "2011-03-13T01:18:23Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > Nope no worse than the many instances of pimple porn around here. Although those threads haven’t come up much lately. The idea of the …stuff coming out. That is much much more disgusting than an unpleasant odor. > > Maybe it’s because I GET what the OP is talking about. Polyester is the devil, Rayon is it’s stinky sister, and adding cotton blend underwear to the mix would have my stuff a little less fresh than I’d like. It’s the warm environment, the friction of the britches. I would say it’s even worse if the pants are loose, not tighter. At least for me. But I’m 100% every day now so don’t worry I won’t go stinking up the place like the OP. > > I think it’s not coming from the inside of our vaginas, by the way. It’s between the legs, in the creases. Sometimes underboob can have the same smell if you’ve gone braless and slovenly a few days. Which I will fully admit to doing. \*cotton \*dammit, 100% cotton ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-casual-pants-for-a-fat-girl-that-wont-cause-crotch-stink-after-8-hours/574184/75 "2011-03-13T02:34:03Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Wow, so you had to stop up bottles single-handedly for the rest of the day? Bummer. Huh? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-casual-pants-for-a-fat-girl-that-wont-cause-crotch-stink-after-8-hours/574184/76 "2011-03-13T02:56:44Z")
He spotted a typo I made. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Last\_of\_the\_Puritans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@The\_Last\_of\_the\_Puritans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Last_of_the_Puritans)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-casual-pants-for-a-fat-girl-that-wont-cause-crotch-stink-after-8-hours/574184/77 "2011-03-13T03:04:23Z")
Okay; I totally get where she’s coming from, and I’m a size ten. Here’s my fresh pants recipe that works for me even in the hottest Southern summers: 1. I make sure I keep my bits shaved and trimmed as the hair holds odor; 2. Apply anti-perspirant to the bits as soon as I step out of the shower when my pores are open; 3. Dust with cornstarch in all appropriate areas; 4. Spray feminine deodorant not only on cotton panties, but on _pants_ All of my work pants are wide-legged trousers, most comfortable cut. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-casual-pants-for-a-fat-girl-that-wont-cause-crotch-stink-after-8-hours/574184/78 "2011-03-13T03:07:05Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > \ Sometimes underboob can have the same smell if you’ve gone braless and slovenly a few days. Which I will fully admit to doing. Sometimes underboob odor can also be yeast that can be treated with miconizol cream. Speaking of yeast, Monistat also has an anti-chafing powder-gel that is da-bomb for those hot,sweaty parts. I wish they would market it under a different name, though, because most of us associate “Monistat” with yeast infections and this product has nothing to do with yeast. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-casual-pants-for-a-fat-girl-that-wont-cause-crotch-stink-after-8-hours/574184/79 "2011-03-13T03:39:44Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > Sometimes underboob odor can also be yeast that can be treated with miconizol cream. > > Speaking of yeast, Monistat also has an anti-chafing powder-gel that is da-bomb for those hot,sweaty parts. I wish they would market it under a different name, though, because most of us associate “Monistat” with yeast infections and this product has nothing to do with yeast. It also doubles as a makeup primer. The crotch-rot product aisle at Target is not as close to the cosmetic department as one would think, however ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-casual-pants-for-a-fat-girl-that-wont-cause-crotch-stink-after-8-hours/574184/80 "2011-03-13T03:50:12Z")
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