Knickers or pants

Terry Wogan introduced me to directoire knickers.. they used to be mentioned a lot on his radio show.

Knickers. :-)

Drawers, always makes everyone laugh

I referred to my 3 year old GS 's undergarments as knickers once. I received a withering look " Ladies wear knickers, boys wear pants" so that told me!!

I just call then pants or knickers. A nurse I worked with used to call them 'knicky-knacky-noos' or 'knicky-knacky-noodles'!
I agree that panties are most definitely for perverts.

Pants, then men in my household wear trousers - only American men wear pants! My mother said knickers was a ‘common’ word ????

Wonder why they were called "drawers"

Maybe cos that's where they're kept

I googled it, it's because they were drawn up over the legs

I assumed that they were called drawers because they were drawn up or on.
I can't let the word pants pass my lips. Gives me the shudders, so knickers they have to be although my family here in Oz call them undies. I may go down that route ....
Leon on Gogglebox goes on about June's 'Knicks'. Go on June, show us yer knicks ?

Oh I love Leon he's great. The dirty looks she gives him. Hahaha

I have 'knickers' for Doctor and Hospital apppointments, otherwise I'm always commando!

Why have I put three ppp's in appointment?

Jocks in my house for the men
Knickers for me.?

Called them knickers for daughters but when had son called them pants! Grandaughter came along and we carried on with pants-potty trained and at nursery-she told me one day " they are knickers Nanny!". That's what the lady at nursery calls them. So that's us told!

My Nan also wore directoire knickers and my mum always said they weren't for her when she bought them for my Nan. I remember Nan wearing them when I was small and she couldn't have been as old as I am now - and I certainly don't wear them!!! Mum used to wear 'briefs'

Panties is a disgusting Americanism that to me reeks of fetish. I have a friend who insists on calling them pants. My mum used to call them Knick knock noodles. I mostly call them by the Spanish term bragas.

I say underpants or pants, having grown up in the Glasgow area where saying "knickers" was considered dreadfully posh and snobbish.

My sister's godmother who managed a draper's shops talked about "briefs" to her customers if these women were buying for themselves, underpants, if they were buying for little girls and knickers if they were shopping for their mothers or other elder women who wore the kind of garment that had legs. Boys' underpants were called "linings" for some odd reason.

Knickers! I think my USA grandchildren have finally accepted this word....

Knicks for me.

Oh I had forgotten that Mother called them 'briefs' and always had white ones only as did MIL who nearly died of shock when I suggested she might buy some coloured ones.

Knickers - I do agree that panties sounds pervie, but will happily refer to panty liners, which isn't very logical.

My Scottish grandmother used to refer to them as knick knacks, not sure if this was a bowdlerisation of knickers?

I seem to remember in Dad's Army Captain Mainwaring called his wife's knickers under pinnings ?

My dear old dad would refer to private parts as nether regions.

I could go on but I won't.

Definitely Pants. I use knickers as a ‘ swear ‘ word .

Englishmen wear pants. American men wear underpants because they refer to their trousers as pants.