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Holiday Boxer Shorts - Christmas, Halloween, Valentines, St. Patricks day, Fathers day, Golf, Paintball, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Baseball
I was kicking boxes left and right when suddenly, a swift side kick launched a white wad from the opening of my sweat pants across the fitness room. I stopped, paralyzed by confusion. When I caught my breath, I zigzagged through a obstacle course of fan kicks to retrieve the object I had just catapulted.
Underwear. It was a pair of underwear that had presumably wedged its way into my pant leg during the wash, and hid out in there, clinging to the side, while I got dressed and did the workout warm-up.
The best part: These sneaky little guys were not mine, but rather the undergarments of one of my roommates, a guy.
Now, a normal pair of boxers, with their bulk, would have struggled to pull off such a magic act. But these were boxer briefs. Or half boxer briefs, with all of their wear holes.
No lie -- I haven't done kickboxing since.
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Had the underwear missile been a less horrifying pair, maybe I would have earned my way up to front-and-center group-fitness status. Maybe I would be an instructor.
I used to tease the men in my life about their ratty boxer shorts, which had enough holes in the crotch to look like a salad colander. Elastic stretched out or tearing off. It seemed off-balance, with how much money I spent at Victoria's Secret. I feared I attracted men with unspeakably weird habits.
Then I met Eric Schwers, and I learned that this is a common problem with cheap men's underwear. Phew. The big-scale underwear companies seem to be making boxers and briefs of lower and lower quality, he says, which explains the growing popularity of men's fashion underwear.
Schwers, of Boulder, owns the men's fashion underwear and swimwear line Baskit. With the relocation of Baskit from Canada to Boulder, this city may soon become the underwear capital of the nation, Schwer's publicity folks say.
Before underwear, Schwer worked for seven years in homeland security on government classified assignments in the international drug trade, human slave trafficking and airline security. He has lived in five countries, worked with the British government and is a specialist in criminal behavior.
But he got sick of that, so he now designs underwear.
Schwer upgraded the Baskit line, now featuring 180-gram organic cotton, a two-ply waistband and a "better formed pouch." I don't want to talk about the "pouch" thing anymore, but apparently guys like it. Most importantly, the higher quality cotton (most men's underwear is made with 100-gram cotton) means it won't dissolve in the wash. So if a pair happens to sneak into your pant leg and make an surprise public appearance, you might not also want to dissolve.
Not to mention, you can get cute pinup girl pictures printed on the underwear. And pinup girls would be a great conversation starter.
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