Boxer shorts (also known as loose boxers or, imprecisely, as boxers) are a type of underwear, worn by men. The term is used in English since 1944 for all-around-elastic shorts, so named after the shorts worn by pugilists, for whom unhindered leg movement ('footwork') is almost as important as the completely free arm movement of the barechested fighters. A male wearing a pair of boxer shorts History In 1925, Jacob Golomb, founder of Everlast, designed elastic-waist trunks to replace the leather-belted trunks then worn by boxers. These trunks, now known as 'boxer trunks', immediately became famous, but were obscured by the popular briefs. Around 1947, boxers started to gain in popularity. Boxer shorts gained massive popularity in 1985 when English model and musician Nick Kamen dressed down till only wearing white boxers in a 1950s style 'Laundrette' in a Levis advertisement. Although briefs outsell boxer shorts, it is apparent that more and more young men prefer the latter. Since the 1990s, many men also opt for boxer briefs as a compromise between the two. Most boxer shorts have flies which allow the penis to be extracted without removing the garment. Boxer shorts manufacturers have different designs for closing up the fly. Some styles include a button or a metal clasp for the fly. However, many boxer shorts on the market do not have a mechanism to close up the fly. Two less common forms of boxer shorts are 'gripper' boxers and 'yoke front' boxers. Gripper boxers have an elastic waistband like regular boxers but have snaps, usually 3, on the fly and on the waistband s
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A day (symbol: d) is a unit of time equivalent to 24 hours. It is not an SI unit but it is accepted for use with SI. The SI unit of time is the second. The term comes from the Old English dg, with similar terms common in all other Indo-European languages, such as dies in Latin and dive in Sanskrit. Contents 1 Definitions 1.1 International System of Units (SI) 1.2 Astronomy 1.3 Colloquial 2 Introduction 3 Civil day 4 Leap seconds 5 Astronomy 6 Boundaries of the day 7 Metaphorical days
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