THE ART OF SHOPPING FOR UNMENTIONABLES....FROM THE FEMALE PERSPECTIVE....

AN HOMAGE TO THE BOY SHORT

If you gentlemen didn't know, girls own a TON of undies. TONS. TONS. Prolly enough for the 3rd world countries combined. Enough undies that we prolly filter out and chuck a bunch each season cuz we know we're never gonna wear them again even if they are perfectly new. You may ask yourself WHY? Girls, you make be asking yourself why as well. Well, today my 2 cents will be shared in dissecting the art of why we love undies.... (Guys... may you realize now that we DON'T CALL THEM PANTIES... panties is an ugly word. Ugly ugly world.)

The Phases of Undies....
In college, buying undies meant going down to your local mall's Vicky's Secret and buying up the 5/$20, 3/$28 promo's on all their signature styles. I won't name styles cuz those words are kinda ugly too. Every word except cotton is pretty ugly for the internet. Anyways, VS is SOOO COLLEGE. I prolly had enough for an entire discussion section. Anyways, those were THE DAYS. If you had informals coming up, it was time to go th VS to get seamless! Nude! Whatever to avoid panty-lines.

Post-college, it's all bout cute, confident undies. I may be an undies snob actually, thanks to my sister that works @ Anthropologie... home of some of the cutest unmentionables on earth...made by EBERJEY or HANKY PANKY. BEST UNDIES EVEEEER!!! It's not always about who else gets to see the undies besides yourself but it's the transcending effect AWESOME undies have on your day and your confidence! In fact, EBERJEY creators have this to say:
"Eberjey was born from our belief that the layer worn closest to the heart should express happiness, love and confidence - all the things that make a woman truly beautiful... Tired of lingerie that confines women to unnatural ideas of standard beauty, we wanted drawers full of pretty pieces that flatter real bodies and feel good too... Things that made us happy when we put them on every morning."

Co-founder Ali Mejia has always joked that someday she would design undies for the laterally challenged, small, flat-bottomed women like herself. Together with her biz partner, they started the BOY SHORT REVOLUTION!!! (sidenote..boy short is also known as "french brief")And so, my story goes, boy shorts are here to stay! They rule! For this reason, I must filter thru the old-skool VS styles and throw them out! Why do girls buy BOY SHORTS in handfuls? Cuz they're actually flattering! No wedgies! No LOVECHUB being strangled creating unflattering overflow! If you have never tried boy shorts, go get a pair, if you've never seen your girl in boy short undies, go get her a pair too! She will lurrrve you!!!!

Anyways, so the art to shopping for unmentionables is comfy, confident, flattering and ultra-fem pieces... and my secret to you is the boy short! In no way am I dissing the ultra-popular thong, I mean long live the thong, infact best friend says, "I LOVE THE MESH... any style!" but when you're looking for flattering bottoms AND you have an audience... all hail to the BS, hands down. Lights on! Lights off! No complaints here. Or so I gather? I put my confidence in the boy short! Salud!!!! =)

*footnote: quality boyshorts aren't cheap. But they'll last you thru many many seasons.

HIKING = Working out muscles in your BUNS you never knew existed.

So I went real hiking for the FIRST time ever. I was able to be introduced to hiking thanks to TIN! And lemme tell ya, hiking makes the buns go, "OUCCCHH!!!!!" I woke up this morning feeling achey in areas of the buns I never knew existed! Tin and I have concluded that this section of the bun is called, "the core of the bun." It's seriously smack daddy in the middle of each cheek. Hiking is great, nonetheless!

It was a beautiful day in sunny california and we went around 3pm to Temescal Canyon! Tin, being the super guide she is, drafted a trail for us and we were off! Waterfalls! Flying bugs! Bees! Creepy spiders! Stones! Rocks! Bridges! View of rich peoples houses with luscious lawns! Lotsa people!

I never knew hiking was such a hit in socal! Tons of people, families, couples, even Grandmas and Grandpas hiking away faster than us! There was this one earthy skinny-minny man, kinda Jesus looking, who had Teva-like sandals on and 15 lb. dumbells in each hand climbing the hills. He's way hard-core! Anyways, by the time we got to the top...after taking MULTIPLE BREAKS to breathe, the view was amazing. You can see from downtown all the way to the edge of the Pacific. Stupid me forgot my camera so this means I have to go back again and work the BUNS, Hun!!! This hike took a mere 90 minutes and as tough as it was, as many breaks as we took going up the incline - it beats the treadmill anyday!

Hikers unite! Let's all go hiking!!!! (easy ones, please) =)