There was a post on a forum I'm a member of the other day where the member related a story which involved a stranger asking if he (he was in drab) was wearing
panties. It later became clear that she actually referred to women's pants or something like that. My question is why is that on every CD or TV website I see (and I will confess to that being quite a few) female nether undergarments are always called panties, but everywhere else pants, knickers, slips, briefs, indeed pretty much anything except panties.
Maybe this is a transatlantic thing, but I suspect that pants is a gender neutral term, and that pantie is quite specifically feminine. After all what man would wear something like these
Janet Reger Red and black floral print satin brazilian briefs.
Given half a chance that is...........................................
2 comments:
It is, indeed, probably a transatlantic thing. On this side of the pond, the generic term for women's underpants is "panties", with terms like briefs, boyshorts, etc. referring to specific designs of them. "Knickers"--to us--are the kind of men's pants that end at or below the knee, once worn by boys who had not graduated to long pants.
Knickers is always the sexiest word to describe 'drawers'
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