Tag: CalvinKlein

Excavating The Bin

I moved about three years ago, and when doing so, about half of my underwear collection was transported in a big plastic tub that has lived in my closet with very little interaction since. Well, with my 100th review coming up and wanting to expand my Sales offerings, I decided to really dig in to my underwear past!

  • The pairs (some off to the side)
  • The bin, to show off how big it is

Featured center foreground in the pic above are the rainbow of Mossimo boxer briefs that I got at Target years ago as the very beginnings of my underwear collection. Dead center are some of the pairs that I think border on lingerie, some from Envy, some from Gregg Homme, and the orange one from (I believe) CheapUndies of all places! And of course, several piles of different styles all around, most quite colorful. =-)

The still-bagged set of underwear mid-top left are other pairs I like and was just too lazy to pull out for this pic. X-D The two bags upper-right, though, are underwear that I had previously (before moving) set aside as pairs I could potentially sell off, so expect those to be added to my Sales page over the next month or so!

This model is sporting both a Box boxer and a CK t-shirt! Docking this outfit points for using different brands, but it actually goes together quite well with the colors – the black “BOX” on the boxer matches the t-shirt color, while the white of the CK name matches the boxer main color. Not a pairing I would have gone with, but it works pretty well!

I’m a bit surprised in the fact that I haven’t reviewed any of my Box underwear yet – I have multiple pairs and, when I got them, thought I had written a review or two. Apparently not! Anyway, Box is a pretty good brand for basic, everyday underwear, with one or two more fun pairs thrown in with various prints. The fabric is generally good, and as you can see from the picture here, the pouches are usually pretty good too! I think this model would do himself a favor if he juuuust smoothed the boxer out a bit better to get out those wrinkles, but you can probably tell from those that the fabric is fairly soft, so I guess that’s good!

T-shirt, briefs, and socks: simple, but effective!

Both the T-shirt and the majority of the briefs here are that casual grey hue and texture that I absolutely fall for, with the white of the waistband being an effective visual break line for the overall look – otherwise it would kinda look like a onesie (and, while I love this grey tone, I think an unbroken top-to-bottom pale grey outfit would look maybe a little slobby. No problem with that here, though!)

Interestingly, I don’t generally like those tall, generic white socks if you’ve got something more involved going on with the rest of your look. However, the fact that the waistband is also white actually gives a feeling (if probably unintentional) that the socks are intentionally matched to the briefs, instead of the “well these are just the socks I have” look that they would give otherwise.

I appreciate both the tightness of that T-shirt and the nice, shapely rounded package this bro is sporting… =3

First post back in a while, so let’s do some basic briefs to begin with! Not much I can say about this pair of grey CK briefs that I didn’t say about some grey CK boxer-briefs a while back… Love the grey, love the (big! bulgy!) pouch, fabric looks great… The one different thing of course is the leg length, and this pair of briefs looks like it’s a full-coverage backside, which I generally like for briefs, especially everyday-wear pairs like this.

Also, I gotta say: only while typing this quick thing up did I notice that the guy here has a little bit of back hanging over the waistband just behind his hip. It’s small and hard to notice, but something I personally always worry about when taking my own pictures since, on myself, I always think it make me look fat… This guy here clearly is not fat and is super-hot, so seeing that tiny bit of elastic overhang honestly makes me feel a lot better about myself.

I always say you can’t go wrong with some comfortable basics in your collection, and Calvin Klein is a great go-to brand for those kinds of everyday pairs. I personally don’t like trunk-length legs like this, but I can tell from looking at these that the fabric is still going to be nice and soft. Also, the front pouch on this particular pair seems great – largely because this model if filling it out really well! X-D And I dunno, but I have a moderate weakness for solid-grey basics like these… Maybe it just gives off a really casual vibe? IDK.

Calvin Klein – Cotton Classic Brief – White – Medium

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Material: 100% Cotton, as if you would expect anything else from a mainstream brand on a very traditional pair of underwear. Definitely soft, but not luxuriously so in any way. It will definitely feel like you’re wearing underwear with these.
Aesthetic: Ah, the whitey tighty… I’ve discussed the back-and-forth about whether whitey tighties are “sexy” or not before. I think this line of very traditional briefs from KC do a good job of sprucing up the “whitey tighty” into something presentable, with fairly clean piping and shape, no weak fabric, and an alternate-color, nicely-lined waistband. It’s built for the “average Joe”, though, and looks better from the front than from the back. CK does a better job of turning the whitey-tighty into a sexual accessory when they modify the cut to use less fabric and forego the fly.
Waistband: Overall, very comfy typical waistband that sits below the waist.
Pouch: There’s a bit of room and shaping for you, but closer to the traditional brief design, it’s more of a strap-you-down sort of thing, especially with the vertical fly putting two distinct layers of fabric stretched over your junk instead of just one. That said, I do highly appreciate the fly on this pair. CK went with what works, without trying to modify it up or down or out. In fact, even with the fair amount of overlap, the fly is so easy to use that it’s not that uncomfortable if you whip ALL of your junk out, not just your wille. (Not a practical piece of trivia for everyday bathroom use, of course, but if you want your boys free for… other activities… it’s nice.)
Backside: Very comfy, but also not very flattering at all! Ya win some, ya lose some.
Legs: Not much to say about the leg openings on these briefs. Not too loose, nor cutting in to your torso or thighs either.
Overall: 3/5 – I personally think it’s worth having some really basic, simple underwear in your collection, and CK’s briefs here would be a great way to go. CK also has slight variations on these briefs, e.g. depending on how low or high you want the rise, so worth checking out.
Great for: Everyday wear
Good for: Loungewear, Sex wear(?)

I usually skip over reblogging guys in CKs since those images are all over the place anyway, and most guys probably already have CKs in their collection too, so it doesn’t do much help for me to review them (I’ll have two of mine I’ll review in detail eventually) – but I gotta share this trunk! I absolutely love the pattern and color combination of this pair, and the pouch looks pretty darn nice too. >3 I want!