My parents brought them back after their last trip to the motherland, and I wear them all the time (I may or may not have a pair on now, HA! Especially in pregnant women’s, it is designed for pregnant women and the baby is not easy to drop in. In the same way people channel power by wearing G-strings and other revealing undergarments, I’m now teaching myself how to feel confident in the covered-up lingerie that makes me feel my best.

Funny thing, I have an aunt from the Philippines who’d give me smaller So-En underwear when I was a kid and I love ’em! For now, all we can see is that by 2018, granny panties were becoming so culturally ubiquitous that it was impossible to find a red carpet photo sans a celebrity showcasing them under a sheer skirt.

The high rise underwear offers slight support to smooth out tummy and reduces the appearance of muffin top. If you aren’t as concerned with that, definitely check out Duluth Trading and pick up a few different styles there! Posts focusing on the transition into living with your new little one and any issues that may come up. The history of women’s underwear is a three-way Venn diagram, overlapping unevenly between fashion, technology, and culture.

Also that because my clothes are larger, I can't put as much into my washing machine�� so I'm going to put a couple of pieces of clothing on my washing line along with these huge knick knocks to show them that I'm not exaggerating�� They are all going to be in fits of laughter when I show a photo of my washing line on whattsap. Just look at the current exposed underwear trend, be it the nostalgic nod to minimalist ’90s undergarments seen on Miu Miu’s Spring/Summer 2023 runway or fuller-coverage underwear worn under see-through pieces by fashion it girls like Jenna Ortega, Lori Harvey, and Olivia Rodrigo. The Platonic ideal of underwear changed from the barely-there thong to an oversize brief with a navel-hugging elastic waistband and a silhouette designed to hold in paunch.

and thanks for the tip- I wonder if I will have the guts to ask my MIL to bring me panties back from the Phillipines. Then tap pants, looking like silky short shorts, ruled the underwear world until the 1940s and ’50s. Although my more modest underwear comes in clutch when I’m menstruating, I truly feel most like myself in brief, and the idea of investing in cuter ones is an appealing one. Thanks to a host of reasons — the rise of athleisure, the rejection of some particularly pernicious strains of hypersexualization, a reframing of what our society interprets as sexy — granny panties are taking up space in women’s underwear drawers in a way they haven’t since the ’50s.