Knickers or pants

When my daughter was small, she started crying when I was helping her get dressed, saying she wanted different knickers. She was trying to explain, and said she wanted "big bum knickers". That's what they've always been called since.

Kecks

Did this used to be U versus Non U?
As a child we always used Knickers (school uniform was navy knickers with white liners!), but when I started childminding for posher families they referred to pants, which I'd always thought were just for men.

Pants every time. When I was a teenager we had a German family whose different daughters came to us each year as au pairs (still friends). The first time one girl came to us, we suggested that as she would do a little cooking, we should get her an apron. She told us she had one at home and would ask her mum to send it. A few days later her parcel came and she told us that her knickers had arrived. Poor girl was so mortified and embarrassed, but we all teased her gently!

Knickers every time!

Yes I am a knicks or knickers person. My mil always wore Tena pants in her later years and called them her pants. So I am not ready for pants yet

Pants or briefs. Knickers are forever in my mind associated with the navy blue ones we had for school.

Is anyone ready yet for beige crimplene trousers/slacks/pants to go over the big knickers?

I tend to go with 'knickers' or 'undies' . Perhaps because the word pants makes me think of school & the PE pants we had to wear over our knickers & under our PE skirts- Uuugggh, how I detested those heavy brown pants!!
Loved Lemongrove's comment - my undies tend to be more the round'em up & pen'em in variety these days. More over worked collie than show poodle

I'm a bit ambivalent really. I grew up with knickers, changed to saying pants in my teens, reverted to knickers as a sort of joke somewhere in my twenties and have stuck with knickers , though occasionally still say pants! My DD always says knickers. My MiL who always wanted to be 'respectable' used to call them panties as she thought it sounded refined. She would have been horrified to hear that people think it pervy! My auntie used to call them 'blinds for the sitting room' which , as a child, I thought extremely witty!

Bluebelle
What are 'drawers' with elastic in the legs

I like the word 'knickers' and wear 'em with pride.

Knickers, men wear pants or briefs.
My OH says ‘red hat no drawers. And we always said don’t wear patent leather shoes or people will see your knickers reflected in them.

midgey
lol. mine also!!

I wear drawers, sometimes ladies underpinnings but most often pants. Never panties...sounds like those cheesecutter things that disappear up where they shouldn't.

.Knickers - but, to me, the modern term "underwear" in TV programmes and novels meaning just knickers/pants etc is odd and rather coy. In my younger days underwear was a collective noun for all garments worn under clothes. i.e. knickers , bras, vests and underskirts/ slips.

Midgey, far better to be Harvest Festivals, than American Knickers (One Yank and they're off!)

Knickers, or if your Scottish breeks,

Nothing at all

I’ve just learned that I’m a perv!

Better late than never.

Pants..Knickers reminds me of the evil gym. knickers we had at school. Even had little pockets in them!

Pants every time. Knickers to me are the things that were referred to as E.T.Bs in my young days---elastic top and bottom, usually peach shiny fabric. Weren't there some called "directoire" knickers?

My DH says " where's me trolleys " sometimes haha