We got a few of our guys to tell in the wonderful world of color of undies. You all know that my favorite color is Green but here are a few of the other guys!

UNB Brady

When I first started buying my own underwear I kept the colors very traditional. White for my daily and black for fancier events. It may have started out because I was scared to buy any other colors. I used to be so afraid of what people thought. It may sound strange to some but buying grey underwear was me branching out. Might be why I love it so much now. It was my first taste of undies freedom! I now buy whatever I want and care much less about what people may think. Even still grey remains a staple. It goes with any outfit and matches any skin tone. Very classic look to me with just a hint of style (For that fancy-daily look). Im going to avoid any 50 shades of grey puns here. Just say that from charcoal to platinum, grey can be quite ambiguous. Black tie event to lounging around the house, grey can work! My favorite pair has to be my Tommy Hilfiger Action Sport Brief. I love the bright white waistband contrasting with the heather grey and TH brand right in the middle. The navy trim is the icing on the cake for me! Too bad they discontinued it…

Quickly the Calvin Klein Black Series Low-rise trunk is becoming my new favorite. I have never felt a softer and luxurious synthetic fabric. These are the type of undies were I like being reminded that I am wearing them!

UNB Peter 

That one pair of underwear that makes you see red.

“Once I stole a pair of red underwear from the department store. My mom wouldn’t buy them for me – she said they were Satan’s panties!” Okay no I’ve never stolen a pair of undies but I did steal that quote from the film Miss Congeniality. What is it about the color red that I find so intriguing? Maybe because more often than not in the world of undies.  Red is associated with being sexy. Exactly why red is usually one of my go to colors when it comes to purchasing underwear. Whenever I think of red, the words confident and flirtatious come to mind. I am neither of the two but when I slip on a pair of red undies, I suddenly feel as if I am. Whether I’m wearing my Aussiebum Wonderjock Pro trunk during work or gear up in the bedroom with my Papi Jockstrap.  something about red (in my opinion) that enhances my best assets. If I had to pick a favorite pair though, I would have to say it would have to be my PUMP! Flash Jogger boxer for several reasons. One of the reasons I love PUMP! underwear is their creative way of mixing masculine and sexy all into one. The boxer has all the right cuts that make my butt and legs look good. The soft cotton material that I find so comfy. The undie itself fits quite snug, which is something I look for when I make a purchase. One of the selling points for me though when it comes to PUMP! is that sporty jock look that I love so much. Their use of mesh in their underwear is simply amazing. This boxer in particular has mesh pockets and a mesh crotch area which I find so useful during a vigorous workout. Mesh underwear is sexy in of itself but red mesh undies just scream “take them off already” but in a good way. So in closing, I always do research before buying a pair of underwear off the net. There is something about colors in particular that make me throw all my purchasing standards out the window and impulse buy the first bright red pair that catches my eye. Sometimes it doesn’t hurt to judge a book by its cover, or in this case a pair of red underwear.

Underwear Dude 

Green was my favorite color growing up, and is one of my favorite colors for underwear. It is an uncommon color for guys underwear, so it really stands out. It is also very versatile. Dark green can give a pair a classy look. While a bright lime green can make any style super fun, no matter what it looks like! I’ve got fourteen green pairs with my favorite being my lime green Cocksox bikini brief.

Beau Briefs

With underwear we all have go-tos when it comes to brands, styles and cuts but what about color? I for one LOVE a good pair of yellow underwear. I’m not really sure why but ever since I bought my first bright yellow pair of Timoeteos I have always seemed to gravitate to the color. I’m a fairly pale person so yellow isn’t exactly an obvious or good choice but none the less, it makes me smiles. It brightens my day. At this point I’d say I have about 10 yellow pairs, mostly all in briefs but one thong and a jockstrap count amongst the number as well. Something about it, perhaps it reminds me of spring or the sun, something those of us in Seattle could use a bit more of. Whatever it is, yellow undies are a great addition to a drawer.

I often ask myself this question. Why am I doing UNB? Why do I put in so my effort and time into he site for the last 7 years? These are usually days when I”m feeling burnt out and why even bother. Like most things in life we all go through cycles of good and bad. This was the case in December. It was a rough second half of the year both personally and for UNB.

After things settle I realize why I do the site. It’s the passion for men’s underwear. I have had this passion for as long as I can remember. I love to share my passion with others. The blog is the perfect way to do it. Yeah, it’s a massive amount of work, not enough pay and takes hours of planning. But I wouldn’t trade it for the world. As much as there are downsides there are these amazing up sides. The first is meeting so many amazing guys who love undies. Which is our readers. I have gained quite a few friends from the blog.

Then there are days I get something like this:

I just wanted to send a quick email to thank you for all the amazing work you and your staff do to keep your readers up to date on the happenings with the underwear industry and fashion. I’ve been an avid reader of your website for the better of 7 years, I’d say, and wanted you to know that I appreciate your website wholeheartedly.

As a happily married straight guy, I’ve certainly had my challenges being that I’m a minority in this realm of men who share my interest in underwear, but I learned to embrace my passion and share it rather than hide it. Your website helped me accept my obsession as it served as a constant reminder every time I visited (pretty much daily) over the many, many years that there’s nothing wrong with having a fascination with underwear even as a straight guy. So thank you for helping me accept, well, myself.

Furthermore all of your articles, reviews, video reviews, guest writings, etc. have had an influence on my underwear purchases. Whether it be a brand you highlighted or an actual pair of underwear that was reviewed, UNB definitely influenced my decisions. I have no doubt that if I rummaged through all of my underwear drawers, yes drawers, I could pick out at least 50 pair that have been an impulse purchase because of a review you (or another staff member or guest writer) posted. So let me also thank you for helping me to become money poor but undies rich! 🙂

Here’s to continued success at UNB in educating men (and women) that there are better underwear choices to be made!

Forever grateful,
Undiesfool

I was blown away. For about 5 minutes I was speechless. This is not a post to say “look at how awesome we are.” I’m still very much in the head space where I forget how many of you guys read the blog. This is because I just want to share things in underwear. However, for all my gripes and complaints here is a guy who has been reading the blog, almost from inception. Reaching out and saying thanks. These emails just make me smile and know everything I do pays off! I emailed him back and he was shocked I emailed him back! If you email us asking a question or sending a compliment or complaint. I will email you back. It may not be right then but you will get a response.

This year we have gained one of the strongest group of guys we have ever had on the site. It just sort of happened that Brady, Underwear Dude, Undies Rock, Peter and Josh joined all at once. Each brings a different view point and love of undies. We tripled our straight guys! Which is an important underwear market.

I just wanted to stress the dedication of myself and all guys on the site. Each guy you read has an amazing passion for the space. We want to share things we find and share our love with you guys. There have been some great personal posts recently and expect more! Its opening up and showing because you like undies, it’s a great thing.

This year we want to get more of you guys involved with the site. It could be participating in social media, helping us with posts or guest writing. We want to take UNB to the next level but we need your help! Feel free to send us feedback and get in touch with us! All the guys on the site love talking undies and we will be glad to talk to you about the wonderful world of men’s underwear.

This post is a mix of Patreon and what we want to do this year. So when you see a post it’s like PBS pledge week!  But we feel that crowd funding is the way of the future for content creators. So without giving you guys the sales pitch again I’d rather tell you what we want to do this year. How your help will help us.

First we want to be able to do better videos. We have done videos for years on the site. We want to branch out and do a lot more of them. This will include web series, video reviews and more. Video work takes a lot of resources. I have a lot of ideas I want to see happen this year!

We want to make some site improvements. This is from a new them to making our current site easier to navigate. But this is beyond my level of expertise and we need to hire someone to help make this happen! On the list are a few things from the last site deign and some new things that have been developed.

Shoots! We love doing shoots but want to do more. We have heard from straight guys you want to see a guy and girl together in a shoot. Gay guys want two guys. So we can do more artistic and shoots aimed at each audience. I have one thing that is tied to a shoot that I really want to do this year but.. more on that later. I can’t let you guys know everything.

Reviews of undies. Yeah we do plenty of reviews but we want to buy some undies we wouldn’t get normally. They could be from Japan, Columbia, Australia or more. New brands and unknown brands in the US. These pairs are usually not cheap. The price of the undies or shipping!

These are a few of the things we want to do this year and we would love your help with it! We want to make UNB even better! So if you  can help go to the UNB Patreon Page and help. If you can’t afford to do monetary help share UNB in your social media!

Coming to terms:

My journey with #undies has really made me actually love myself and it has been life changing. #underwearpower

— Beau Briefs (@underloverwear) January 29, 2016

Last night I was tweeting, after a bit of wine, and I tweeted

and it got me thinking. It’s true. I have grown more and more to love myself. This self-love and acceptance seemed, upon further reflection to have an interesting correlation with my underwear hobby/obsession. However, as my old argumentation professor would be quick to point out correlation and causation are not the same thing. Very true. Underwear did not cause me to love myself but they added to my self-esteem and overall self-image. And then I realized something:

My relationship to underwear bears a strange and sort of beautiful resemblance to my relationship with my sexuality and in the end myself. So let’s dive down this rabbit hole.

When I was younger I would sneak old Nordstrom catalogs into my room and check out the underwear section, starting with the women’s but always fixating more on the men’s. So much was my unknown suffering at the time that I was even okay to be sneaking looks at gross, outdated, tighty-whities that I would one day come to mega-loath. I mean icky, old white pairs with the infamous thin gold band at the top. These were dark times.

Now I grew up in a very conservative household and I would have died if my parents knew that I was looking at the catalogs like this, let alone the men’s section. It was a secret and it was a secret that I even kept myself from acknowledging for a long, long time.

I remember once trying to cut a pair of my own underwear so that they would be more bikini brief style. The experiment did not go well. Much like trying to find and make the partner that one wants out of the clearly wrong ones. Sorry girls. There are times and situations in our lives that demand flexibility and making things work. Yet there are things in our lives that we have to realize don’t fit or conform for a reason. Those old tighty-whities were never meant to become bikini briefs, never.

Eventually I would come to buy my first pair of nice underwear, black Calvin Klein hip briefs. From there I would buy random off brands of different cuts and styles from the likes of Fred Meyers or Macy’s (Bon Marche for the PNW back then, shout out!). Yet every so often I would purge the underwear from my life. Round up all of the ones I had bought secretly, put them in a paper grocery bag and throw them away. Burying them deep in the garage can so they wouldn’t be seen.

I promised myself to keep everything “conventional”. I would discipline myself, train myself. Somehow I saw underwear as a gateway, a secret acknowledgement to the even bigger secret that I, like the undies in the trash, had buried so far down that I wouldn’t let myself truly discover it. From deep down in the drawer to hidden deep in the closet and then to deep in the garbage, this was not to be spoken of.

This went on for years. I would “slip” and buy a pair of undies and just like that the collection would grow again. Being able to drive to Seattle and shop at more scandalous stores with a big, vast selection accelerated this trend. Build it up. Bury it down. Repeat. And at every step of the way, fear.

Fear was ever present. What if my mother discovered a pair of different underwear? What if I were exposed while changing at school? In my mind, one slip up would leave me alone, banished, outcast. Not until years and years later did I realize that I was actually imposing those realities on myself because of this fear.

Naturally this cycle coincided with the cycle inside my head about who I was. Right when I was about to reach a point of admitting my deep down secret to myself I would purge all traces of acknowledgement from my life. To use what I now see as a terribly offensive term, I would cleanse myself of it all. My 17-20 year old self probably would have used that term in the moment and I know now how detrimental that was to my self-love. There was nothing to cleanse, there was everything to embrace.

And so it went. Cycle after cycle. Nowadays I have a semi-massive underwear collection and I sometimes laugh to think about how large it would be if I never went through those purges. Similarly, I wonder how much fuller my life would be if I hadn’t dismissed myself or the real me.

Finally, I couldn’t escape it anymore. I LOVED underwear. I loved having it, I loved buying it, I loved wearing it and sometimes yes, I loved showing it off. It made me feel good about myself, it made me feel like a more realized version of myself. If you ask me, I am never sexier or happier than when I am rocking a great pair of underwear.

I accepted it, finally! It only took me 21 years. I let the collection grow, expand and get more diverse. At the same time, I slowly mustered the courage to love and accept myself. I unburied the secret I had been actively shoving down for years on end. I opened that trash covered paper bag and I let my true self out. And it was breathtaking. I could look in the mirror, into my face and be as happy with the person I saw looking back as I could look at underwear in the mirror and be proud. I was me and I was free.

To this day my underwear collection is a reflection and a beacon of who I am. It is my favorite and most valued expression of who I am, all of me. And I love it. And I love myself, my real self.

I understand that the love of underwear might seem stereotypical or over blown to some people and that’s fine but I don’t care. I really did treat this love, this passion as a reference to my sexuality and my acknowledgement of myself. I invested in it only to dispose of it in secret. I prized it only to tarnish it internally. And finally I let the world know. And thank goodness I did because I have never been happier.

It’s MAGIC WEEK! New readers maybe asking “What the heck is Magic week?” Is is something to do with magicians? No it’s a trade show in Las Vegas that is held every February and August. The purpose is to show buyers new items for the coming months. The show is not just underwear. Its everything form suits, jeans to accessories. Buyers and exhibitors come from all over the world.

Magic is no longer Magic! There is another show called Curve that used to have a lot more men’s brands. Currently its 99% women’s brands. In the last two years two new shows have come to Vegas. The new shows are Liberty and Markt. A few of the underwear brands are going to them. In the past Nasty Pig and Naked attend Liberty. Wood Underwear now goes to Markt.

I originally went to Magic in February 2010. It was something Baskit said I needed to do to get to know the brands. They flew me out to the show and I spent one day in Vegas. I got to talk in person to all these people I had known via email and phone calls. It was a lot of fun! I was so tired after the day. I got to as many brands as I could but still needed to see more. Also, I learned about Curve. About half the brands were there in 2010 and I missed out on a lot of people.

We flash forward to August 2010 and I went to both shows! I spent one day at Curve and one day at Magic. I would have 35 to 40 brands to see. It was go go go from the beginning. At Magic they would have some upstairs and some downstairs. I had to walk about 20,000 steps a day. After my day I would go back to my hotel room and crash!

Not all brands were at the shows. Some would show in suites. I like the suite meetings. They are a bit more laid back and easy going. Plus you can have a model up in a suite! That is where we shot a lot of our N2N Bodywear videos. But this adds to walking. If you have ever been to the Mandalay Bay Convention Center its a long walk from the Hotel to the Convention center. Just imagine doing it 3-4 times in a day!

I have met a lot of great brands over the years. They include: Pistol Pete, Baskit, Go Softwear, N2N Bodywear, Cocksox, 2EROS, teamm8, 2(X)IST, Bwet, C-IN2, Nasty Pig, Boy Rio, Wood Underwear, Good Boy Gone Bad, Jack Adams, Gregg Homme, Papi, Mundo Unico, Manus Swim, Garcon Model, and the list goes on an on!

Over the years there have been some changes to the shows. The first is there are less brands going. The shows aren’t cheap to exhibit at and a few brands no longer show. Which sucks because I really love talking to them in person and bringing you guys undies. Some brands only go in February and skip the August show. This past August there were around 20 brands to see. Way down from 40 in the early 2010’s. This trend will continue and in 10 years we may not have all the brands in one area.

The other change that we aren’t happy with and brands aren’t either is the lack of models. They moved everyone to a different area and have clamped down on brands having models. This is how we did videos and pictures to help cover the events. If you noticed less videos this is why. Only 3-4 brands had models this last show. Will this change for this year? I doubt it.

In the future more brands will be doing business on the internet. Relying less on shows. But this will allow the internet to do more. Things like Skype/Hangout Video chats will take the place of shows. We are starting to do that on UNB as well. I will miss going to Vegas two times a year. I love the town and have a few traditions such as Secrets Pizza, Mermaid’s Deep Fried Twinkies, Bellagio Fountain show and more! But that’s what vacation is for right?