Perv.
Well, I mean, they’re underwear, right? Would you go out in public in your underwear, a la the Naked Cowboy?
I am female and had female roommates in college and they also took off their pants quite often when back in the dorms. Of course, I lived with the most immodest girls ever. Sorry, I cannot talk to people while they are sitting there in their underwear. Ever heard of robes or dressing gowns?
I always go outside in my boxers. They look enough like gym shorts that no one could tell the difference, and I have few neighbors anyway.
I don’t even walk around inside my house in my boxers. I’ll always put on at least a pair of shorts and a T-shirt. I feel this is best for all involved.
I never usually leave my bedroom without being dressed unless just me and my GF are home, my boxers allow Little Control-Z to make appearances sometimes.
I’m a woman, but I have boxers on right now - I work at home, in my jammies.
The other day, I needed to go outside and check the mailbox in the middle of the day. I says to myself “eh, just go in your boxers. No one will notice. Even if a car drives by, they’ll be going too fast to notice.”
So I go outside in my boxers and my dirty t-shirt and my messy hair. Right at that moment, as I am waddling down the driveway, two guys from the maintenance department from the school down the street come driving by on a GOLF CART, going 2mph past me and my dumpy boxers.
They got a full view of my fuglyness, in slow motion.
I don’t think I am going outside in my boxers anymore.
Not male, and don’t wear boxers. But I have an anecdote which is relevant.
In high school, I was involved in the production of a Musical. Less than a week before opening night, we had what was supposed to be the big technical rehearsal where the pit orchestra was added, and all the lighting/sound details were worked out. But, due to a family emergency, the director was not available, and the pit orchestra was told to stay home. As many of the other details that could be worked out were, though.
Midway through the rehearsal, the male and female leads had departed to the dressing rooms, when they were summoned back.
Out comes the male lead wearing only a pair of white boxer shorts. The female lead took longer to return, and was fully dressed. She also did not want to touch the male lead–not even his fingers–or stand near him. The rest of us thought he was worth admiring, and she was being silly.
That was not the only time during that week when I saw the male lead in his boxers–although the rest of the times he was changing clothes more actively. Between a near total lack of modesty and many rapid costume changes, he usually changed clothes offstage but not in one of the dressing rooms.
I once spent most of a day out and about in public wearing just boxers and a t-shirt. It was at a tropical resort and the airline had misrouted my luggage, containing my regular shorts. I safety-pinned the fly and went about my leisure.
Between the two extremes of tighty whities and actual shorts, boxers are much closer to shorts than they are to being underwear. That’s why I feel silly putting on my gym shorts over my boxers just to go up for the mail. If my boxers were solid gray or black, they’d be nearly indistiguishable from my workout shorts. Is it that little white stripe down the side of my gym shorts that makes it ok to walk around in public wearing them?
Along the same lines, I don’t understand why the audience hoots and hollers whenever a stage performer is suddenly de-pantsed and appears in boxers. They act like wike we’re being treated to nudity or something when all we’re really seeing is the actor suddenly wearing shorts instead of pants.
I’ve never had my privates make unscheduled public appearances out of gym shorts, but they do out of boxers all the time. There’s a big difference between being underdressed in gym shorts and being in jail in boxers (for indecent exposure).
I’ll go as far as the side of the house to take out the garbage or recycling, but only if it’s early (or late) enough that my neighbors are unlikely to be out and about.
Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I only think of tighty whitey briefs as underwear. So going out to the mailbox in boxers seems normal to me. It’s the same as a swim suit to me.
Oh, now, that might be going too far. Ever gotten a pair of cotton boxers wet?
Like swimming or in the rain, ya bunch of comedians.
Pretty much. Boxer shorts don’t look like real underwear to me. They look like thin, flannel (or whatever material you happen to prefer) shorts. I would never consider seeing a neighbor outside in his boxers (or her in boxers) inappropriate. I wouldn’t go to the store in them, but I don’t feel weird at all going into the front yard or backyard with nothing but boxers and a tee shirt on. I won’t go shirtless outside, though.
Underwear haiku:
I will check the mail
And even run to my car
But with my bath robe
Depends on the boxers and how they fit. Loose and plaid, well - those look like shorts. Tight fitting and white boxers?
One quick story - in my youth, I once went home with a bunch of (other) Gay guys and we were going to go out to hit the bars. I said I wanted to take a quick shower so I went from the bedroom, to the bathroom and back, in white boxer shorts. From the living room you could have seen me dash. No big deal.
About five years later, after some drinks in a bar, one of the guys there that night told me he had fantasized about me for a couple of years after that - it seems my dash showed just enough of a “peek” to pique his interest.
So again, depends on exactly how those shorts fit.
Hear! Hear!
I would expect anyone in England wearing only underwear to be a massive focus of attention, with the police bieng called.
Unless they were streaking, of course…
Hello glee! Hope to see you (fully clothed as usual) in Las Vegas next year!
Somewhat related - the oddest story I know about boxer shorts actually happened at the Coleherne Bar, on Old Brompton Road, in Earls Court in London about 1985. A quite busy Gay bar - I was there one Sunday afternoon and the place was packed (so to speak) and I was standing in the back of the bar.
A young guy came in, went to the restroom and came back out and stood in the bar.
You might think that uneventful except that while he was in the restroom, he had taken off all of his clothes, except his boxers and white socks and black shoes.
That alone might be considered odd, but it got even stranger.
He had folded his clothing, very neatly, in a pile and held it in a stack in front of him and simply stood there, in the middle of the bar, holding his clothes; no drink, no conversation with anyone. He just stood there. After about 20 minutes, he went back to the restroom, got dressed and left the bar.
I always wondered what was going through his head that evening.
::Guinness Book of Records:: The smallest penis in the world is recorded as belonging to madmonk28 a member of the SDMB.
Unfortunately no measurements have been taken as he is very shy, it is however extremely tiny according to one of his friends who saw it, and laughed
I’d never wear them to a job interview.