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We get to try them on here, but you MUST keep your original underwear on when you are trying them. Then of course you have the problem of trying to work out how they'd fit if only you weren't wearing 2 pairs! Not sure quite how much I trust people to do it even if they have been reminded 3 separate times before they get to try them on, and you never know if someone has returned them pretending it's an unopened packet (we have much more favourable return laws here, it often seems) so I always put them in the wash before I put them on! I also wish you could try clothes on after you've put them through the laundry, but that's a whole other issue!! Originally Posted by Optical Goddess
it would be nice if you could try before you buy, but then again, that'd be rather nasty.
I agree to try different cuts and styles, and particularly ones that are side-seam free because then when they are a bit tight they don't dig in you.
I am also a big pants person. I don't like large pants as in high rise briefs or "granny panties" or anything, but I do prefer my underwear at least one size larger than my regular size, usually 2 sizes. It doesn't seem to matter what size I get, though, it never fits. I custom made some underwear once cos I got fed up. About 10 years ago one company did a major redesign of men's underwear when they found out that the navel to pubis length did not increase in larger waist sizes when it had always been assumed it did. I am sure the same research is still missing in ladies' underwear because when I buy a larger size of something like shorts the *ahem* gusset length is designed for me to be 8 feet tall! I need a UK8 in gusset length with a UK16 hip width, so I went out and bought a packet in each size and sewed them together, but I wouldn't routinely do that, I just got real fed up one day!