When I got out of high school in the early/mid-2000’s virtually all of my peers wore boxer shorts. Almost none of the guys I graduated with wore boxer-briefs/trunks, and only a few very nerdy guys wore tighty-whities. Even when I finished college in the late 2000’s, still virtually everyone wore boxer shorts. Boxer-briefs/trunks were a little more popular, but tighty-whities were almost exclusively for nerdy guys only.
It seems like sometime around 2012-2015(ish), the opinions and attitudes changed and young adult guys started transitioning more to boxer-briefs. A lot of guys who generally wore boxers started picking up boxer-briefs. By 2020, boxer-briefs seem to be dominant among guys under 40, and boxers are the outlier. Not to the degree that briefs were when I graduated from high school or in college, but a minority nonetheless, so much so that I would suspect that 18-23ish guys today have never worn boxers.
Nowadays, it seems like the standard straight guy under 40, not metrosexual/into fashion, will wear dark solid color boxer-briefs as their default underwear. In the decade of the 2000s, the default would have been plaid boxers.
Have you noticed this happening in your part of the USA or your country?
Note: please remember this forum only allows discussion of people (including yourself) who were 18 at the time you’re referencing them. So you can’t talk about yourself or anyone else before they turned 18 even though they’re older than 18 now. That’s why I started my topic with when I got out of high school, since myself snd my peers were 18.
It seems like sometime around 2012-2015(ish), the opinions and attitudes changed and young adult guys started transitioning more to boxer-briefs. A lot of guys who generally wore boxers started picking up boxer-briefs. By 2020, boxer-briefs seem to be dominant among guys under 40, and boxers are the outlier. Not to the degree that briefs were when I graduated from high school or in college, but a minority nonetheless, so much so that I would suspect that 18-23ish guys today have never worn boxers.
Nowadays, it seems like the standard straight guy under 40, not metrosexual/into fashion, will wear dark solid color boxer-briefs as their default underwear. In the decade of the 2000s, the default would have been plaid boxers.
Have you noticed this happening in your part of the USA or your country?
Note: please remember this forum only allows discussion of people (including yourself) who were 18 at the time you’re referencing them. So you can’t talk about yourself or anyone else before they turned 18 even though they’re older than 18 now. That’s why I started my topic with when I got out of high school, since myself snd my peers were 18.