revealing boxer shorts

As a child I remember not having gloves or boots for winter play. However Mom had a solution: Multiple layers of mismatched socks on our hands and feet covered by a plastic bread sack and a rubber band to secure. They worked great for sledding down the hill but getting back up was difficult. We were not out long because the bags tore easily and we got wet and cold.

Some of our most exciting days were one's where we returned home from school to find a box of hand-me-downs sent from our, just older, cousins in Wisconsin: That was the day that we got "new to us" name brand jeans, winter wear, socks and store bought briefs.

The biggest fights I remember having with my brother was over the few pairs of matching white socks or the one clean pair of fruit of the loom briefs.

Mom made most of our clothes: She made us coats, jeans , shirts and she even made us boxer shorts: They actually looked pretty good lying folded and flat in the bottom of our Christmas gift box. They were plad or multicolored. They had a nice folded and double stiched fly to keep things covered when not in use, however somehow the pattern had not calculated that boys butts are round instead of flat. When the boxers were worn the nice folded fly that was supposed to act as a cover streached out and, instead, made a nice diamond shaped window.