Low Rise Jeans Question

[Cassandra_Cain]

Ok so I have embraced, slowly but surely, the notion of going commando in bike shorts. No problem there.

Jeans on the other hand? Eh, no thanks!

I tried it twice and never again. Denim is to girly bits as oil is to water - at least for me. I found it very uncomfortable.

Plus, essentially you are asking your jeans to do the job of your underwear. Without getting too TOO graphic, I would rather my underwear do that than vice versa.

Now about undies....I am hooked on victoria's secret PINK~! They are fun, colorful, cute, available in countless styles and colors, plus they even have what they call 'extreme' low rise - also of note, these are seamless. VPL my friends, is a thing of the past

[short cut sally]

i wear low rise jeans, and my panty of choice is victoria secret..i wear the little t-strings from the very sexy collection (picture dental floss with a small piece of material to cover the front) or the v-strings (slightly more material on these, front and back) or thongs from the pink collection, along with their boy shorts..i haven't heard any complaints of lines so far. i think the v-string and t-string you have less material to worry about showing, and are my preference to wear. good luck in finding something.

[extra-vert]

Funny, I've never gone commando in bike shorts, but I have in jeans for the simple reason mentioned from the start. My thought though, ultimately, is that if every single women were to start wearing panty liners every single day in addition to the undies, what effect would that have on our environment?

[SadieKate]

Extra-vert, thanks for saying that. I, too, have visions of landfills of nothing but diapers and pantyliners.

[snapdragen]

Extra-vert, thanks for saying that. I, too, have visions of landfills of nothing but diapers and pantyliners.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Extra-vert, thanks for saying that. I, too, have visions of landfills of nothing but diapers and pantyliners.

I think there are way more fast food containers and coffee cups in landfills than pantiliners. And you'd need a month of pantiliners to equal just one disposable diaper. What about all that petroleum based chamois butter gooping up the landfills? (just kidding)
What about all the panties that have to be tossed after only a year of wear? (my panties last for many years, and with panyliners I don't have to launder them after every single wearing- thus saving more water, electricity, soap use, etc)
It always horrifies me when I hear about women who launder their jeans after just one wearing. I wear mine about 10 times before I wash them. Under normal conditions, I usually wear a shirt several times too, and socks twice! Needless to say, I don't need to do a lot of laundering. We don't change our sheets excessively either.
I may use a pantyliner every day, but I save tons of natural resourses by not using paper napkins or paper towels much. I am very conscious of the things I do use. Personally, I would draw the line at the medieval practice of using rags instead of tampons and then laundering them....

People have long compared energy/resource/environmental savings differences between using cloth napkins, dishtowels for drying hands, hankerchiefs instead of tissues, and thier accompanying increase in laundering, as opposed to using paper products that don't need laundering. There are of course pros and cons to each choice. i try to reach a thoughtful balance.
I do hope everyone here recycles ALL their household paper (not just newspapers) like we do- our home offices paper, paper milk, egg & OJ cartons, empty rolls of TP, cardboard boxes, cat food bags, ground coffee bags, toothpaste boxes, cereal boxes, junk mail, etc. etc.

[Cassandra_Cain]

I think there are way more fast food containers and coffee cups in landfills than pantiliners. And you'd need a month of pantiliners to equal just one disposable diaper. What about all that petroleum based chamois butter gooping up the landfills? (just kidding)
What about all the panties that have to be tossed after only a year of wear? (my panties last for many years, and with panyliners I don't have to launder them after every single wearing- thus saving more water, electricity, soap use, etc)
It always horrifies me when I hear about women who launder their jeans after just one wearing. I wear mine about 10 times before I wash them. Under normal conditions, I usually wear a shirt several times too, and socks twice! Needless to say, I don't need to do a lot of laundering. We don't change our sheets excessively either.
I may use a pantyliner every day, but I save tons of natural resourses by not using paper napkins or paper towels much. I am very conscious of the things I do use. Personally, I would draw the line at the medieval practice of using rags instead of tampons and then laundering them....

People have long compared energy/resource/environmental savings differences between using cloth napkins, dishtowels for drying hands, hankerchiefs instead of tissues, and thier accompanying increase in laundering, as opposed to using paper products that don't need laundering. There are of course pros and cons to each choice. i try to reach a thoughtful balance.
I do hope everyone here recycles ALL their household paper (not just newspapers) like we do- our home offices paper, paper milk, egg & OJ cartons, empty rolls of TP, cardboard boxes, cat food bags, ground coffee bags, toothpaste boxes, cereal boxes, junk mail, etc. etc.

Me too Lisa!

I absolutely do not wash clothes upon a single wearing (except undies!). It seems, to me anyway, very wasteful not to mention that it wears out your clothes much faster. How jeans or a blouse can be considered dirty and in need of washing after wearing them, say to work, is beyond me.

[Dianyla]

A friendlier alternative to a pantyliner is a carefully folded up little wad of toilet paper, which can be easily flushed and discarded whenever you visit the toilet. Plus, you can have a new fresh liner every few hours if you like, just make a new one every time you go. I got the idea when this product went off the market.

Or, an even better no-waste solution is to just wear your menstrual cup 24x7, menstruating or not. I do this when I'm travelling and trekking and it significantly reduces panty goopage.