Undies Around the World
In Thailand, it's illegal to leave your home if you're
not wearing underwear. (And who enforces that, I wonder?)
In Aussie slang underwear are called "grundies."
On average, West Germans wash their underwear
once every seven days!
It is tradition in countries such as Venezuela and
Peru to wear yellow underwear on New Year's Day for
good luck throughout the coming year.
(No particular shade, they just have to be solid yellow.)
Japan
offered underwear vending machines until 1993?
Here in the USA
Americans spend more
than $13 billion per year on intimate apparel.
In 1987 Playtex premiered the first US TV commercials
with real lingerie models displaying their bras and
underwear on national television.
The most expensive bra and underwear set was sold for $15 million.
(In 2002, Victoria's Secret created a $15 million bra and underwear set
titled Red Hot Fantasy. The bra was made of red
satin, and had 1,300 gemstones, including rubies and diamonds.
Before this, they had launched a one of a kind bra and
underwear set made of platinum, sapphires and
diamonds. The Star of Victoria Fantasy Bra is studded
with a total of more than 2,500 carats of diamonds,
sapphires, and other gemstones stones. The rose and
leaf motif alone on the Star of Victoria is made up of
320 carats. Definitely not about comfort!)
Nearly 25% of women surveyed in Arkansas said they
keep a pair of underwear in the glove compartment of their
car.
In Minnesota
a law says you may not hang male and female underwear next to each other on
a clothesline.
A survey of
sex shop owners discovered that cherry is the most popular flavor of edible
underwear. Chocolate underwear is the least popular.
Married men change their underwear twice as often as single men.
85% of men don't use the front opening in their underwear when they
urinate.
The number
one item women forget to pack on vacation is underwear!
Up until a
few years ago, US regulations said that crash test dummies had to wear pink
underwear.
