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Aid the economy: Buy your man underwear for Christmas
 

By Linda Bryant Smith
Herald Columnist
If you'd like to do your share in helping our economy recover, here's an idea: Give the men in your life underpants.

Go out on this major holiday shopping weekend and buy the guys some tightie whities or bodacious boxers.

No, this old gal's not totally wacko.

I have a logical line of reasoning based on economic forecasting secrets of former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. H...

Obama expresses his opinion on men exposing their underwear
 
Change to believe in: Obama's clothes
By Clyde Haberman
Friday, November 14, 2008
NEW YORK: Two robbery suspects, hands cuffed behind them, were taken from a police station house in New York a few days ago. Like many young men, they wore baggy trousers. They wore them low, very low, so low that the beltless jeans of one suspect slid down almost to his knees.
Guilty or innocent, he looked ridiculous. President-elect Barack O...

‘Smalls’ used to mean ‘breeches’ but around 1943, according to The Oxford Dictionary of Slang, the word began to be applied to underwear. This euphemistic usage does suggest that many people feel slightly embarrassed about what they wear under their clothes, an awkwardness that can extend to the business of buying pants.
 
This is the case for some, but for others it is just a bore having to spend your precious leisure time traipsing round shops when you would rath...