Men's fashion: Boxer shorts resist

"Underpants are to vaudeville what toga are to tragedy", said director and screenwriter Carlo Rim, recalling the way in which theater and cinema have used them as a comic spring - see the acrobatics of Jean-Paul Belmondo, hanging from a helicopter in a white model with red polka dots in Le Guignolo (1980)… Nowadays, if it is an exaggeration to say that underpants are a source of jokes, they are clearly not the most popular male underwear: in 2017, a Statista study estimated that 12% of French people favored this form against 58% preferring boxers and 26% briefs.

The lightness of being

Nicolas, 30, is part of this minority. For him,

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The offer is plethoric, from the entry-level with Uniqlo to specialists like Éminence or Sunspel, up to the great luxury, supplied with a matching buttoned pouch at Hermès, or made to measure by Charvet. “The 'luxury' models are tempting, admits Nicolas. But an underwear...