Legally, into a public area, or downtown, may I just go for a walk in my Fruit of the Looms? Riding a public transit vehicle? I suspect shoes are required, per health laws, maybe even a shirt, to go into some establishments, so I could carry those with me and put them on when I got to the establishment. I was curious about that, when I saw some dork with his underwear showing. I mean, I’m sure that indecent exposure standards are pretty uniform, and there is some case law about this. Could be wrong, tho.
I’ve seen more than one girl show up at the 7-11 in thier boyfriends underwear and no one batted an eye. But maybe thats because they were stareing, I know I was.
In Spain you can go in your underwear or buttnaked, as you prefer, so long as there isn’t a local ordnance forbidding it. That doesn’t mean that you can force a store or restaurant to serve you, most would frown on having someone sit on their chairs with nothing in between, but you definitely can walk around in your underoos.
Who said the brief swimming trunks (bikini) would be legal cover? In some places they are only legal at swimming pools and the beach. (or maybe private property).
True, though it’s not like there are hordes of naked people running around…well, except for the UVM Naked Bike Ride every winter…oh, and a few years ago when some Middlebury teenagers decided to “test” the lack of a public nudity law and hung around naked in a park…oh, and the few unofficial nude beaches that are here and there…
It certainly depends on location. Some places have made it illegal to have your underwear showing at all thanks to the fade of wearing the pants in the falling off position.
Being private property they can call the cops to have you removed if they don’t like how you present yourself. You can be ticketed for trespass if there is no law against how you dressed.
There may be a bit of a double standard here. Some years ago it was not uncommon to see women wearing for evening (1) a slip as a dress, (2) thong underwear visible at the lower back/waist, peeking over the top of lowrider pants, or (3) a bra or camisole worn as a top, sometimes under a jacket. I’ve even seen younger women wearing a lacy camisole as a shirt under a jacket at a conservative place of business.
I can’t imagine men getting away with the same kind of thing. In some places, there have been attempts to ban men wearing baggy pants with underwear showing, although this may be considered bannable as a gang-related look. For the men, I wonder if briefs are not allowed as outerwear because they tend to be (errrm…) vented?
I’ve wondered that too. When I’m at home, I always wear a pair of loose cotton shorts, sans underwear. There’s no fly, and the cotton’s slightly thicker than the material of my boxers, but otherwise there’s really no difference. I’ll walk the neighborhood, hop in the car and run errands, etc., but for all intensive* purposes, they’re just like underwear.
