Underpants for left-handers?

[claidheamhmor]

What the hell? A company is making underpants to suit left-handed men? *boggles* Are these really necessary?

Underpants for lefties fills gap in market

September 24 2009 at 01:11PM
By Liz Thomas
Daily Mail

Specially designed underpants for left-handed men are going on sale from on Thursday.

The pants will have a horizontal slit on top of the gusset, rather than a vertical one on the right, to save wearers time when they visit the toilet.

Rob Faucherand, from Debenhams, said: "Left-handed men have to reach much further into their pants, performing a Z-shaped manoeuvre through two 180 degree angles before achieving the result that right-handed men perform with ease."

He added that the launch of the new style, by underwear brand Hom, was a "step towards equality".

Debenhams said left-handed men tended to favour boxer shorts, but added that it had received complaints from men wanting more choice.

Research ahead of the launch also found that some left-handed men found it "embarrassing" fumbling around for an opening on the right.

Mr Faucherand said: "Switching from a vertical to horizontal slit may sound like a small step, but it is the major breakthrough that many have been waiting for."

The Hom H1 Original Maxi Trunk is £22, (about R267) while the Hipster version is £16. They can be bought online and in stores.

In recent years the number of products developed for left handed people have soared and now include video cameras, scissors, pencil sharpeners, wallets and guitars.

Men's pants have become a topical issue ever since Jeremy Paxman publicly complained about the declining standards of underwear on sale in the high street.

The host of BBC2's Newsnight was so annoyed he contacted Marks and Spencer chief executive Sir Stuart Rose to discuss the matter with him personally.

"Like very large numbers of men in this country I have always bought my socks and pants at Marks and Sparks", Paxman said.

"I've noticed that something very troubling has happened. There's no other way to put this. Their pants no longer provide adequate support.

"When I've discussed this with friends and acquaintances it has revealed widespread gusset anxiety."

Source: IOL

Tell me, dear readers: would this be a selling point for you?

Comments

[jadedflame.livejournal.com]

Personally... I don't see much of a selling point :) But then again, I don't often wear men's underwear :)

[pcb.livejournal.com]

Nope.
Not a selling point.

I wear a sock.

[jadedflame.livejournal.com]

Too.much.information...
;)

[pcb.livejournal.com]

's very practical. For a start, a pair lasts at least two days!

[claidheamhmor]

Do you cut holes in the sock for your legs?

[pcb.livejournal.com]

Nah - that'd be WAY too tight and would ruin any woolly, winter sock.
An elasticated top to one is useful, mind you, as is a cummerbund of kevlar.

[filialucis]

Remind me to not ever offer to knit you any socks! :P

[pcb.livejournal.com]

I say, Oh Owl, could I remind you never to offer to knit me any socks?

[filialucis]

But certainly, o Ursine One.

*wanders off to emphatically NOT knit socks*

:P

[pcb.livejournal.com]

Oh, and try not to think of elephants, either...

[maymorning.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Left-handed women have had to contend with right-hand fastening bras, but you don't see any complaining about it! Sounds like a case of a bad workman blaming his.....eh, decided not to finish that sentence! :)

[claidheamhmor]

Sounds to me like a solution without a problem...

[pcb.livejournal.com]

Left-handed men find right-handed bras easier to help remove, of course, without having to get people to turn around, without having to plant a knee in anybody's back to brace themselves and without needing to reach for pliers, either :-)

[winterhawk.livejournal.com]

They make underpants for squirrels. After that, nothing seems terribly strange. :)

Don't believe me? Google "squirrel underpants." :)

[claidheamhmor]

I'm not sure I want to know...

[ihlanya.livejournal.com]

*googles*

Oh my god.

[claidheamhmor]

The ones wearing no underwear?

[windrider-09.livejournal.com]

Sometimes the little things trouble you far more than the big things. If people want to spring for expensive underwear that they believe helps them, it is their wallet.

[ralesk.livejournal.com]

Wtf? This makes no sense.

Okay, I mostly have briefs that have no slit on them at all, but even in the case of those “old-fashioned” ones that do, I just pull down the front and get things properly free.

And it has no bias from that I’m “genitally right-handed”, at all (haha, TMI? :P)

[claidheamhmor]

I was wondering too. I don't think I've ever used the slit on any underwear that had one.