Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Boxers or Briefs?


Not wanting to be the butt of someone’s joke; the question lingers: what should you wear under your Dolce suit, wrangler jeans or stubbies? Should you hang loose with the boxers or sit tight with the briefs? It’s a big question and some spend years of their life oscillating between the options trying to find a good fit.

First is the attire made famous by Batman and Robin. Skin tight, form-fitting, body hugging and rarely worn on the outside, is the brief. A guy who still rocks his tightie-whities can be seen as the ultimate momma’s boy, refusing to let go of his childhood says. Moving from briefs to boxers has traditionally been seen as a passage into manhood, but does this mean that Boxers are the way to go?

If you catch a guy wearing boxers, you can assume that he’s the more traditional type, a real "man's man". He wears boxers because he’s always worn boxers, and because that’s what his mother bought for him, along with polo shirts and baggy American Eagle jeans. You can spot this guy on gamedays, when he’ll be wearing his Cal shirt, or in lecture, where he’ll be watchingFailblog non-stop. Boxers go really well with suits and with other loose fitting pants like cargoes and khakis. Interestingly, boxers are the only kind of men’s underwear which can be tailored. Boxers do tend to bunch up sometimes, however they give precious little ‘support.’ Boxers are a poor choice when it comes to physical activities. However, boxers are known for their versatile designs and patterns, coming in an array of wacky and colourful designs.

Perhaps the best of both worlds is found in the ‘boxer-brief’.As the name says, boxer briefs are middle ground between boxers and briefs. The underwear has a cut like tapered boxers, but it fits tightly, just like briefs. Boxer briefs have great advantages; for instance they give coverage and support in a way which sculpts the lower trunk also. This kind of underwear works under with all kinds of clothes, but is especially valuable during athletic activities and under tighter pants. Dark-coloured boxer briefs look especially good when you have a little extra ‘weight’ to hide; the dark colours give the shorts slimming abilities

For the first time ever, four men will be the face of Calvin Klein Underwear. Actors Kellan Lutz,Mehcad Brooks and Athletes Fernando Verdasco and Hidetoshi Nakata are headlining the upcoming “Mark Your Spot” global advertising campaign for the launch of Calvin Klein X underwear line. Model and actor Kellan Lutz, 24, best known for playing the vampire ‘Emmett Cullen’ in the popular Twilight films, is possibly the most famous of the four new faces giving you an impression of the target market for Calvin Klein: hot guys surrounded by crazed girls. You could do worse, no?

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