Boxer Shorts

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 6159

It seems that a number of recent fanfics have depicted the 
characters running around in their boxer shorts. (It is no more 
immodest for them to sleep in t-shirt and boxer shorts than in a 
nightgown, altho' my friend Lee yelped in horror, as if she had never 
heard of such a thing, and told me that decent people wear pajamas or 
nightgowns or nothing; I told her that when I lived in a college 
dorm, where wearing nothing was not entirely practical, I slept in a 
t-shirt over underwear.)

But it occured to me that authors less than half my age may not know 
that the Marauders DID NOT wear boxer shorts during their school 
days. That was in the 1970s, and in those days, NO ONE wore boxer 
shorts except fat old men with RICHARD NIXON bumperstickers on 
their cars. In those days, the question wasn't 'boxers or briefs?', 
it was 'briefs or bikinis?'. 

The menfolks, very annoyingly, generally refused to wear bikinis, 
despite looking so good in them. They even refused to wear the brand 
named Undawear that's Funtawear, which was lavishly illustrated, 
with an appropriately placed central design motif such as a 
banana, hot dog, fire hydrant....