boxer short

[…] a simple boxer short type training pants with elastic waistbands rather than a complex belt or suspender apparatus and similarly, Colwell (1965) suggested using shirts with large buttons to train children to button and unbutton shirts […]

1970, Michael Charles Tucker, Use of Modified Learning Techniques with the Severely and Profoundly Mentally Retarded, University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 22

While the young men all wore boxer short-type swimsuits and walked down the runway with little fan-fare, the young women wore near invisible bikinis, some surely held in place by glue or some such trick.

1999, Pre/Text, volume 16, numbers 3–4, Department of English, Eastern Illinois University, pages P200T–P201T

In it, the putative owner of a design mark consisting of a stylized boxer short-wearing skeleton sought to defeat the alleged infringer’s motion for summary judgment through declarations by his business associates that the marks in question were similar.

2000, Trademark Law Handbook, Clark Boardman, →ISBN, page 180

For their third catwalk collection, Alice Shreeve and Hannah Coniam – Belle & Bunty – took the theme of ‘the morning after the night before’, as the masculine ‘boyfriend’ shirt was unabashedly worn with braces and boxer short style hotpants in tropical palm prints taken from the wallpaper of old British stately homes.

2005, International Textiles, numbers 843–846, page 92

The boxer short style resembled shorts and extended to the upper thigh. […] Teenage and college boys wore two styles of swimsuits: wool knit trunks or boxer short trunks.

2008, Amy T. Peterson, editor, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing through American History, 1900 to the Present, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, pages 332–333

The symbolic status of the boxer short is enhanced by the various materials (workmanlike cotton or more glamorous satin) that they can be made out of and the numerous patterns that these fabrics may display: […]

2022, David Scott, Between Friends, Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN

The top layer is made of washed silk and tape-spooled lace woven with needle-spooled lace. This one-piece woven dress is constructed from three layers of cotton, with elastic woven into it to create shape. Underneath is a boxer short.

2023, Jenny Udale, Textiles and Fashion: From Fabric Construction to Surface Treatments, 3rd edition, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, →ISBN