Unfolding Underwear Folding

Why wear underwear, in the first place?

Well, there are a dozen and one reasons I heard from friends- from usual to bizarre. Like: to support that hanging thing there; to make your package more appealing; to hold the urine after urinating; to make sex exciting; to promote foreplay when making love; etcetera.

Most, if not all people I know wear one, for different reasons; some maybe the same or different from the ones mentioned. But seriously, why do we cover our thing? Does it make sense? Oh well, the thing is, we are wearing it. Whether it makes sense or not, it doesn’t matter. For if it doesn’t matter anyway, why would our mothers require us to wear it, as early as when we are still in preschool, eh?

Even in history, it is still unclear as to when the people wear undergarments was. It is said that loincloth was considered the earliest undergarment as some archaeologists suggest through dig remains that dates backs thousands of years ago. Maybe, in the far west. But in the Philippines? How come that some of our forefathers, when the Spaniards came, were wearing g-strings made from selected leaves and uway? Maybe they can’t afford loincloth.

That was the primitive society of course. Now then, since all of us will agree that we do wear one, next question is: do you fold your underwear?

That’s a silly question, one might think.

One might even be reminded of Patricia Lorenz’s “Life’s Too Short to Fold Your Underwear”. Conversely however, not a word from Lorenz discourages us to fold our underwear.

Why fold it anyway?

Well, if your closet like mine is not so spacious, doing so will save space.

Likewise, when travelling, not only that it will save space, it will also give you a sense of assurance, if ever by accident your bag dispatched its zipper, and everything in your bag fell of the floor, gee whiz(!) [it happened to me once at NAIA!], at least your underwear will not flaunt in exhibition. Worse if your underwear is not that so presentable due to its loosened garter!

So here is how I fold mine.

PS. Underwear Day is celebrated in the US on the 22nd and 23rd of August. See, even underwear have their Day aside from wash day!

Published in Manila Channel. August 17, 2012.