Long live the Large Pair of Knickers! Caitlin Moran's brilliant column in The Times

When I read this column by Caitlin Moran yesterday, I died laughing. While sparkly g-strings and frilly thongs are cute, I have to admit that I can't really wear them. Let's be honest: those bastards are uncomfortable as hell, and Caitlin Moran agrees. In her column "Coming to a bottom near you: pantorexia" she talks about the greatness that is the Large Pair of Knickers. Asking the question, "How can 52 per cent of the population expect to win the War on Terror, if it can’t even sit down without wincing?" Caitlin also points out that "when women wore undergarments that extended from chin to toe, the sun never set on the British Empire" - so why should we be stuffing ourselves in knickers that are so small we could put a week's worth "into a matchbox". But Caitlin insists that while bigger pants are much more comfortable, there's no reason that they need to be ugly:

"While I eschew the modern tiny pant, I am no fan of the majority of modern big pants, either. Why do they all look so horrid? Numerous vintage lingerie websites reveal another possible world: bright teal French knickers in silk, ribbony bloomers, frilly cancan scanties and amazing satin shorts from the 1950s – all gorgeous, yet also able to contain fully what I refer to as my “better half”. Walk into M&S, however, and anything more capacious than a tea-bag looks horrible. And why? Because it’s all flesh-coloured. Flesh-coloured is awful. No one likes flesh-coloured."

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