Just look at this awesome underwear made from banana fibers.

Just look at it.

Aussiebum (Thanks, Mom!)

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Anonymous

Enhancing?! Not with those tiny bananas.
Master Pokes

A bannana hammock made of bannanas…and my eyes…they burn!!! At least my appetite for lunch has diminished. Thanks for the diet help.
GoDownMoses

I like how they use pygmy bananas to give sense of scale/proportion.
- Cactaur
  
  Thanks to repealed EU regulations they now can be less than 14cm and have abnormal curvature.
remmelt

Seriously though, there’s not much banana to hammock there, right? Shape also seems to be a problem, see the weird angle/point in front. Photoshop disaster?
dainel

Why is it shaped like that … “The material is too thin, I can see the outline of the thing underneath. Go put on a cup.”
Moriarty

I’ve never owned any banana fiber clothes. Besides sheer appropriateness, does it have any advantages over, say, cotton?
- LeavingHalfway
  
  It’s just rayon, processed from the fibers of the banana tree trunk, instead of from any old cellulose (same for all those “Made from Bamboo!” fabrics). Also, it’s then blended with cotton for this one.
  
  So… no, not really.
Ratdog

Good to see some more banana posts.
WalterBillington

Looks like the tap’s still on.
webmonkees

Already have the ad figured out. Like the body spray ads, only with monkeys. “Aussiebum. Glad to see you.”
mmbb

putting the fruit back in the loom, love it!
mmbb

oops, just noticed (Thanks, Mom!) in your post. how does that make you feel? would you like to talk about it?
sparkdale

Aren’t bananas becoming endangered?
sing it, baby

This and a Mets cap would make a dame fine superhero outfit.
lewis stoole

***warning***
allergen alert:
clothing processed in a facility that packages nuts

http://www.instantrimshot.com/
- sando_art
  
  WINNER!!
Anonymous

A definite Photoshop disaster. The “V”-form of a crotch is defined by the folds at the place where the legs are jointed to the torso. This picture actually shows two “V”-s – one in the pants and one above the waistband. If you mentally continue the lines from the upper set until they meet and then allow some distance below that point for his anatomy, you’ll have the lowest point of the crotch – but the crotch in the picture ends about 50 px below that. Look also at the skin colour and the lightning difference of the legs and the torso. They just cut the picture of the model at the waistband and put another torso above it, without bothering with the details too much.

That said, I’d like to meet a guy who wears underwear as low-riding as this picture tries to suggest – it does look very good (provided he has no paunch). Sometimes I think that if men continue to show the practically negative vanity I’ve seen in their underwear, we should boycott them by wearing nothing but loose pinkish drawers printed with little yellow flowers and orange stripes. Or maybe little yellow bananas.

P.S. My captcha reads “published kidney” – oddly appropriate, if you’d just turn him around.
Lobster

I’m a little late. Anyone make any “banana hammock” jokes yet?
igpajo

They cracked a joke about that on the last SNL’s Weekend Update that went something like “They’re great if you’re okay with monkey rape!”
HatOfEdshu

Somewhere out there Ray Comfort is fanning himself and thinking about baseball.
hisdevineshadow

Since it is made out of banana fibers does it make it “yellow stain” resistant?
Axx

Does that guy have a banana in his pocket, or….oh nevermind.
eeblet

Wow, am I the only appreciator of fine, er, hammocks? Despite the gross photoshopped image above, I found most of the underwear to be modeled very, um, nicely.
Stefan Jones

You can tell they’re ready for the laundry when they develop black spots.
- Felton
  
  Heh! But they always feel so starchy.
phillamb168

Banana hammock!
SomeDude
To me, the greatest thing about this post was the collection of links appended to it, in the “Previously on boingboing” section:
I don’t want to go out on a limb here, but I can’t escape the feeling that someone wants me to behold banana-related things.
bellebouche

Climate change a-go-go.

I can only assume that it was unseasonably chilly down under when the photo shoot took place. It might account for the piccolo status of the hapless model.
Pantograph

Just look at it.

Thanks for the offer but I’d rather not if it’s all the same to you.
jacquesphoto

so are these the crotch-enhancing undies that you hear about from time to time?