Underwear is everywhere, and it's never been more in style

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Briefly Noted: Underwear Trends.

Once, underwear was considered unmentionable. Today, Americans are flaunting it, spending $13 billion every year on intimate apparel.

And there's something for everyone: briefs, boxer briefs, trunks and cycle shorts for men - bikinis, thongs, hipsters and boy shorts for women. And it's not just the style, it's the fabric too - everything from nylon and lycra to pima cotton and microfiber.

Forget the bottom of the hamper. Underwear is top drawer.

Rebecca Apsan is what you would call a connoisseur of lingerie. For 27 years, she's been selling some of the sexiest underwear in her downtown Manhattan boutique, La Petite Coquette.

Aspan says boy shorts are hot right now in women's underwear. "These have taken not the place of thongs but they've been selling very, very well," she says.

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