National Underwear Day

News - freshpair.com , USA

From Marlon Brando rending his undershirt in Streetcar, to the sexual revolution, to Helmut Newton's lingerie-clad vamps, underwear has come a long way from being coyly referred to as "unmentionables" in American culture. A watershed event was the unveiling of Calvin Klein's giant underwear billboard ads in Times Square in the Eighties - a statement of unflinching exposure that almost single-handedly transformed the public's perception of underwear from 'necessary undergarment' to a brazen gesture of style and freedom.

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