Day-of-week underwear of yesteryear

My goodness, but that woman is fond of her underthings.

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ERMEGERD!!! PERNTIES!!!
rattypilgrim

This must be Underwear Wednesday!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Trent-Baker/100000123865597 Trent Baker

Fond? She looks kinda hysterical.
- TrollyMcTrollington
  
  They must be of the remote-controlled vibrating variety.
Freedonia

You’d have to be *crazy* fond of panties to wear them on your boobs like that.
- Jake0748
  
  I was gonna say.. she even uses her panties as a bra.
franko

well, look at them — wouldn’t YOU be??
Christopher Vaughan

She looks kind of zombie-ish.
Jake0748

Panties by the box… hmmmm….
- mappo
  
  Where else would you put them? On your boobs?!
Eark_the_Bunny

OMG, pantsu on Boing, Boing!
voiceinthedistance

Yesterday a post about Medieval boob sacks, today it’s daffy drawers.

Only the acetate tricot panties mention being “sanitized”. Should we draw any conclusion about the hygienic nature of G, K, L, M and N panties from this?
- http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan
  
  Yesterday a post about Medieval boob sacks, today it’s daffy drawers.
  
  Yes, we do rather seem to be scraping the bottom of the apparel don’t we?
grimc

Anybody know if ‘boobpanties’ is slang for a bra? If not, can it be?
- noah django
  
  *i’ll* certainly be saying it from now on
- robuluz
  
  Yes. Yes it can.
https://twitter.com/PhoetrySlam Cyran0

Is this the point where we have a sexy underwear party?
- ocker3
  
  Too many houses are being built without dimmer controls for their lights, a key component of a good underwear party with so many people being so self-conscious about their bodies. Of course, if you start it out as a trench-coat party and make sure there’s plenty of wine and nibblies, who knows what will happen!
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karnuvap/ Karnuvap

I had a set of Day-of-The-Week underwear and, if you think about it, you had to bring washday forward by one day each week or go commando on washday.
- AnthonyC
  
  Wait, do people really do wash the same day each week? I just sort of wait until I almost run out of clothes and/or need something specific to wear again.
  - IronEdithKidd
    
    Single guy, eh?
    - flosofl
      
      O.O Are… are you a wizard?
      
      (single guy who employs the exact same laundry strategy)
    - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness
      
      I always thought of wash day as a single person thing, including single guys. It’s a good way to deal with the logistics of the laundromat. Families with their own washing machines seem to wash things when needed without any set schedule.
      - chgoliz
        
        I’m about to admit something I’m somewhat ashamed about….
        
        I am an excellent housekeeper. Like, people call me Heloise and ask my advice regularly.
        
        The reason to have a “laundry day” is so that you can do full loads for each:
        
        - light/cold
        - light/warm
        - dark/cold
        - dark/warm
        - white/hot
        - linens
        - towels
        - delicates
        
        Each of which need different treatments regarding additives, amount of water, spin cycle, drying or hanging time, etc.
        
        Throwing things in together one load at a time will wear out your clothes, fade them, tear them, and in general make them look old and grungy very quickly.
        
        /heloise mode
    - AnthonyC
      
      Yes, but when I lived with my last girlfriend I did our laundry and used the same strategy.
      - http://twitter.com/fossilfuels Funk Daddy
        
        and she thought “he’s doing it wrong, but fuck it, someone is doing my laundry!”
      - AnthonyC
        
        @twitter-212575908:disqus Could be, but I suspect not.
      - IronEdithKidd
        
        That strategy does not work once a kid enters the scene. I followed your method when I was only responsible for myself. Now that I do laundry for 3 people, I find it’s most efficient to blast through it all in a single day.
      - AnthonyC
        
        @IronEdithKidd:disqus I can believe that. Certainly the *amount* of laundry would go way up in that case, and you get more surprise bursts of laundry from various accidents.
      - Donald Petersen
        
        Married dude with 2 kids here. If I had to deal with a laundromat, I have no doubt I’d have a set wash day, but since I have my own washer and dryer, it gets used whenever necessary. We do catch-up loads most Sundays, but otherwise it’s just when the hampers get full. And even more often when someone falls ill. We have enough clothes where we could go longer than a week without washing, but we’d never survive two weeks.
  - CH
    
    I cannot be bothered to be organized enough to have some laundry day. For me it’s “Crap… the hampers are getting full, better start doing laundry again”. And then I do a few days of back-to-back laundries until they are empty.
Hirsty

Pantieboobies!
http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers

Call me crazy, but providing the granny panties in question are not that horrid beige colour, I think they’re rather flattering.

I propose we rename granny panties to encourage a reuptake of practical knickers.

Not “period panties”, either.
- CH
  
  Yeah… I was looking at those lace panties… not bad looking. And I do get excited about comfortable panties! And comfortable bras!
  - Chentzilla
    
    … and I’m not even a girl!
- IronEdithKidd
  
  This must be the real reason undies for ladies come in so many shapes – none of us can agree upon what’s comfortable. If you wear these undies, your pants better be taller than they are. That would put the top of the pants somewhere in the vicinity of my sternum (I’m short waisted). No thanks, that’s discomfort city and would look damned silly.
kansas

I got the kid version from my grandmother on many special occasions. As with most of the sets in this ad, there was no pair for Sunday.
- Donald Petersen
  
  My 5-year-old has a week’s worth of those, but they do include Sunday.
  
  “The world has changed. I feel it in the air. I see it in my panty drawer.”
bcsizemo

LSD, it’s a hell of a drug.
David Carroll

I think Eduard Khil would have liked this ad.
Sebastian Lambinon

Her teeth are so bright white you can follow them to the back of her mouth.
- anwaya
  
  Radium fluoride toothpaste. If you look really carefully, you’ll see her left earring.
http://twitter.com/DJ_Solar_Bear Jason Carl

I”m that kind of fond of those underthings.
Paul Renault

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http://www.mcphee.com/shop/products/Girl-Squirrel-Underpants.html
Pope Ratzo

She’s having a vision, I think.
http://twitter.com/BonzoDog1 BonzoDog1

A buddy of mine once swiped a napkin dispenser from Burger King and then loaded it with a week’s supply of folded BVDs and set it on top of his dresser. It’s a good option for OCD types who hate the disorder of a conventional undies drawer.
http://twitter.com/wche Wil Che

Only the “G” set has 7 pairs, but the rest have just 6 pairs. Reminds me of that scene in “When Harry Met Sally” where Sally talked about how she broke up with her ex- because he became suspicious of her missing “Sunday” panty. According to Sally, it’s because of God that they don’t have the panty for Sunday.
rocketpjs

So do people go commando to church? Or do they have special ‘Jesuspanties’ that they only wear on Sundays? My god, what would jesuspanties look like? Is this what I was supposed to be learning in SUnday school?

As for laundry, we have 2 kids. Every day is laundry day, anytime is laundry folding time. It’s like digging a hole in sand, by the time you finish and put everything away there is another full hamper or three.
- Preston Sturges
  
  Maybe they would look like the Landover Baptist Chastity Thong
  
  http://www.cafepress.com/landoverbaptist/429363
  
  (Satire)
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    Every time that I follow a link to Landover Baptist, I think that it’s real for a few minutes before I realize. It’s just so accurate.
  - chgoliz
    
    My favorite: Speak to me in tongues!
lev36

I’ll have what’ she’s having…
Preston Sturges

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I remember these–of course, I was five.