BOXER SHORTS

My underwear choices seem to go in phases. At boarding school it was briefs, regulation white, four pairs. As a young man, I switched to boxer shorts. Since arriving in Denmark in 2000, it has been back to briefs.

Until recently, when I bought three pairs of boxer shorts in (of all places) Dubai Airport during a stopover on the way back from Singapore. Wearing them this past month, I realised how much I had missed them. Out went the old briefs, in came more boxer shorts (the birthday present from my in-laws).

I can already tell that this phase will last the rest of my life.

Walter Blotscher