Underwear Facts:
- Married men change their underwear twice as often as single men.
- In 1935, the first men's briefs appeared. They had a Y-shaped front and overlapping fly. They were originally termed 'jockeys' because they offered a similar amount of support as jock straps.
- In 1925, Jacob Golomb, founder of Everlast, designed elastic-waist trunks to replace the leather-belted trunks then worn by boxers. They became known as 'boxer trunks' and were the original prototype for the modern men's boxers.
- The modern boxer brief style popular in men's underwear is actually very similar to the bottom half of the two-part union suits worn in the 1910's.
- The loincloth is both the simplest and the most popular form of underwear. It was probably the first undergarment worn by human beings.
- King Tut was buried with 145 of his favorite loincloths.
- Italians wear red, Argentineans wear pink, and Brazilians wear brand new underwear on New Years Eve.
*Based of sample size of 125,000
- In 1991, the average bra size in the United States was 34B; today it's 36C.
- The 'bikini' was invented in 1946 by two Frenchmen who named it after the tiny Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the site of atomic bomb testing, because the 2-piece swimsuit was miniscule in size.
- The thong first gained popularity in Brazil, in the 1980s as a swimsuit style. By the 1990s, thong underwear became popular and today it is one of the fastest selling styles.
- Panty hose, which combined panties and hose into one garment, made its first appearance in 1959, invented by Glen Raven Mills of North Carolina. The company later introduced seamless panty hose in the 1965, spurred by the popularity of the miniskirt.
- Bras did not exist until 1913 when Mary Phelps Jacob tied two handkerchiefs together with ribbon. In 1928, Maidenform introduced modern cup sizes.
In the late 19th Century, the standart undergartment for men, women and children was the unionsuit.
