
I’ve been into these for three-plus years (I’ve been re-upping, don’t stress), and I love them.” He personally likes to “keep it classic” with the monochrome black, but notes that “if you feel you need a statement piece, other colors are available. “They’re soft, breathable, and keep their shape well even after many washes.” Other fans include Malcolm McNeil, a photographer and the content manager at rare-sneaker dealer Flight Club, street-style photographer Christopher Fenimore, menswear brand 3sixteen founder Andrew Chen, and Elliott Foos, formerly the director of coffee at Daymoves in Williamsburg, who adds that “Uniqlo’s basics are unrivaled, and these carry the torch. “I wore Calvin Klein for a minute, but at this price and comfort level, I can’t pass up Uniqlo,” he says. How much do The Underwear Expert employees make Glassdoor has salaries, wages, tips, bonuses, and hourly pay based upon employee reports and estimates. One of those guys, photographer Sam Schmieg, says these are even superior to Calvins. Of all the pairs we heard about, none received more recommendations than Uniqlo’s simple and affordable supima-cotton pair, which five guys (or six, if you count contributor Chris Black) told us they swear by. Yes, there’s a lot of Calvin Klein, but there are plenty of other options too.īoxer briefs were the most popular underwear style among the men we spoke to.

Click through if you know exactly what you’re looking for, or read on to see all the favorite pairs our cool guys recommended - from reliable everyday choices to giftable luxury brands. We also scoured our archives for underwear recommendations from other interesting men, like actor Neil Patrick Harris, Tan France, and Rick Ross.įor ease of navigation, we sorted their selections into five categories: boxer briefs, briefs, trunks, boxers, and performance underwear. Instead, we’re featuring some of the best options recommended to us by stylists, fitness professionals, and other discerning and active men across all categories. Here, we do not set out to resolve the great brief-versus-boxer debate. Most men are quite picky about their underwear and many have strong opinions about which style and brand is best. Underwear folding expert Tor from ‘Small Space Organizing‘ will teach you the fastest and easiest ways to fold your undergarments.

But those words mean different things for different people. Much like socks, the best men’s underwear should be comfortable, durable, and stylish.

Morante was doing costume design, started clamoring for the briefs he designed for the show’s pneumatic Pit Crew hunks.Photo-Illustration: The Strategist. Some, like Marco Morante, the designer of Marco Marco, a label whose gender-various fashion shows were a surprise hit of the recent Los Angeles Fashion Week, happened into the category almost accidentally after viewers of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” where Mr. Indie labels like Bear Skn, started in 2014 with $56,000 in seed money raised on Kickstarter, offers premium underwear in sizes as large as 4XL because, as Jody Koenig, a founder of the label, explained, “There was nothing out there for bigger guys to make them feel sexy or hot.” Relative newcomers like Mack Weldon and the Eighth now offer well-constructed though low-key products pitched online to a prosperous imaginary Everyman (and to his rich aesthete brother, in the case of the Eighth’s limited-edition $175 silk twill boxers, printed with faded weed or engine patterns created in collaboration with the artist Richard Phillips and debuting next week at - where else? - Art Basel Miami Beach). Priced in a broad range from $24.99 (the figure at which men’s underpants are considered “premium”) to the $470 the French luxury-goods house Hermès charges for a pair of woven boxers are briefs whose virtues are sometimes described in terms better suited to the aerospace than the apparel industry.
