Knickers or pants

Is knickers more of a 'down south' word? Pants more 'up north'? Knickers down, pants up, as it were?

That's why I say Klickers

Men don’t wear pants anymore they wear boxers or Calvin’s (used as a general term
I think we ought to have a poll - knickers sounds so old fashioned and old ladyish to my ears

There are always thongs ?

Some americans do call them panties:
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pants though I usually say drawers to the GD's as they think its hilarious,

My DH has boxies

Klickers and Grundies in our house

Knickers or as my granddaughter's say-knick knacks! Panties..yuk?

Briefs sounds like a coy euphemism to me.

Pants, I always think old ladies wear knickers.. In our family the men always wear boxers, not pants.
"Panties", sounds quite pervy.

I thought drawers were called that because they had draw strings to hold them up before the invention of elastic....and also had an open crotch for convenience...

Knicks or knickers. Blokes wear pants. Panties is the most cringeworthy word, sounds like it was invented by pervs.

We need a club then, The Harvesters......oh no, that sounds like the pub meals ( had too many of those, which is why I need larger pants/ knickers/ briefs.)

Trousers used to be slacks and pants, worn by men, and the UNDERwear were called UNDERpants as they went under, surprisingly. Women wore drawers as you drew (pull not with a pencil) them on, my Nan was a drawers lady. The other type were knickerbockers originally Dutch, and then shortened to knickers. International language is a weird thing.
I’m in the knickers group.

Lemongrove I joined that club a while back! I'm in the knicker brigade.

Knickers, also known as "keks".

Ha Ha Lemongrove! Mine are more ‘harvest festivals’...all is safely gathered in!

Mine are not quite as brief as they were!

M&S call them briefs.

It was always, always pants when I was young, but I date from before most people knew that Americans called trousers ‘pants’. That still sounds weird to me.

Knickers sounded quaint and old-fashioned. Also, it sometimes meant boys’ knickerbockers. I’m not old enough to remember when boys wore them, but the word was often used in books. Victorian and Edwardian, perhaps?

I’m not sure what I call them now. I don’t talk about them very often! I think I still say pants.

Pants definitely for me my Mum and gran wore knickers.

Underpanties. Is that a word?

My lot ( badly brought up ! ) refer to Kacks

Panties are for Americans. People wear panties (knickers) under pants (trousers). I think some Americans call all underpants underpants. Perhaps they freak out like gransnetters over the word panties as well.