new knickers

Another Sloggis fan here. I wear the maxi ones, not the control ones, mainly black but I do have a couple of white pairs. They last for years!

I read that a woman wearing matching french lingerie walks differently. Having alsways bought mine at M&S I can't say whether this is true. I know that sorting the laundry at DDs houses I have to look closely to see what are HIS and what are HERS. Its all black anyhow.

I love high leg pants as anything else seems to cut into the tops of my legs (probably too fat - in fact definitely). Having worn M and S bikini type for years I have recently taken to wearing the thin silky 'on the waist' high leg pants from M and S as they are so smooth that there is no VPL and no bulges to spoil the hip line. (Disguising THAT fat again) They'll probably stop making them soon - that's what usually happens when I find a real 'like' in the underwear line.

I'm a big fan of flesh/nude coloured knickers. I was introduced to them just before my wedding 36 years ago - I didn't believe then that anyone would see white knickers under a white dress but I went along with the recommended nude ones. A few months later, we went to a wedding & the bride might as well have had her white Knicks on over her dress. Since then, I always opt for nude under light and white dresses & white trousers- white knicks show up particularly well under the latter, as do thongs, which DH refers to as "the rose arch affect"! I recently passed the tip on to my young hairdresser who has been extremely grateful & smug in front of her friends; sporting "no VPL " nude under the tightest of tight white trousers!

I think pants are trousers in America. They call our 'pants' panties. I'm another who doesn't like that word.

I really thought I was the only person to use the word 'knickers'. Alima, I'm with you on panties, I absolutely hate that word, my mother always used it, and it made me cringe. I wear either black or white, don't buy coloured ones.

I dislike the word panties too. It sounds so coy somehow. I use knickers or pants.

I'll join the anti-pantie brigade please. I hate the word. I was once sent some to review and with hindsight I spent so much of the feedback form ranting about the terminology I was never sent anything else.

henbane In the past I have bought seam free, wide top knickers from Tesco. They are really comfortable and have worn well - so well in fact that I don't know whether they still make them as I haven't needed to replace them.

Knspol, have you looked at M&S smoothing,non padded lace side bra,s ,great under tshirts and so comfy, they really don't show under tshirts , shame they only do white and nude but for Summer ,for me, that's fine

I remember my Mum calling the big bloomers with elastic at the waist and legs "Passion Killers"!

Yes! Only just discovered them. And you can buy them in Waitrose. No more M and S.

I definitely need to get some new knickers. I wore a skirt (without tights) today for the first time in ages and realised it was mainly my trousers that had been holding them up! I love patterned 'briefs' in bright colours except under white trousers. My Mum always disapproved of black underwear. I never worry about VPL, why would anyone want to look as if they weren't wearing knickers anyway?

I've recently started buying black only bras and knickers. I find white underwear always goes grey. Last year in a vain attempt to buy a well fitting bra I spent a fortune on three white ones. Now they've all gone grey. Any tips on making them white again, anyone?

If I had unlimited money, the thing I would have new every day is flannels. I have two, one for above the waist and one for below, and just love the softness of a new one. Even though they are not expensive I still feel I have to get good use out of each one.

I agree that pants is American for trousers. They also call what we call tights 'pantie-hose' - ugh!

I only wear knickers of any sort if I absolutely have to......I go commando almost all the time
When I do have to cover up, it's black Sloggis for me!

Lilypops - thank you, I have just gone online and ordered one of those m and s bras. I am desperate for a comfortable bra.
HillyN - I feel the same way about VPL and had to laugh at your reason for needing new knickers!

If I wear black they have remains of flaky skin on them. Am I the only one with that problem. It looks like dust.

I am a Sloggi fan (am I allowed to say that?) also M&S.

White or skin coloured, and YES it does feel good when I have new ones on.

Washing all whites together keeps them white....

Sloggis maxi control every time. My absolute favourites.

I confess I have a knicker fetish - bras too No matter where I go I always look at the underwear department and have to keep telling myself I don't need any more as I have several drawers full of all colours! I prefer the no VPL ones from M&S or Sainsburys and usually end up wearing the black and nude colours anyway. I don't really like cotton ones though as jeans don't 'slide' up on them that easily - think that's TMI

I always wash whites separately, at a higher temperature and with a fabric whitener sheet, but I've heard that those colour run sheets help whites stay white if you want to throw everything in together.

I might have to get some myself - last time I did a whites load the first thing I spotted when the machine stopped was a pair of bright pink ones bang in the middle...

PatB8 yes, Sloggi are great. Control pants rule.

Big black drawers every time