Exactly! In the 70's and 80's growing up, hs and college, NO ONE wore boxers where I lived. Only your old grandpa did. Then, incredibly, the 90's arrived and voilà: boxers. I suspect preppy kids maybe wore them already, but not the rest of the country. How we left briefs for boxers is a mystery I'll never be able to understand.
I do remember people, incl women, wearing men's boxers as outerwear. I guess it was supposed to be shocking.I don't know if this was an oddity of where I went to college, but there were a couple of years in the 80's when it became a fad to wear regular grandpa boxer shorts as shorts, males and females. If you were going to class, you probably wore something under them, but at parties, probably not. It was a crazy fun time.
Does anyone remember wet boxer short contests at bars during spring break?
Oh yes, he's special... perfect for frotting./..