And Now I Know Why I Have No Green Panties by @sarahinmi

In college, I had this endearing habit of matching my bra and panties to the shirt I was wearing at the time (Shush, it’s my post, I can call it endearing if I want to – even if it was, in retrospect, clearly a little heavy on the crazy and more than a wee bit high maintenance).

Also, it’s an easy habit to have when you wear a lot of black.

In my closet NOW about 40% of the shirts hanging (arranged by color and then sleeve length. Shut up) in my closet are green. I love the color green – it’s my favorite. I even bought a green laptop solely for the color, a mistake I won’t repeat next time around. Here I am, lots of green shirts, but…

No green underwear. No green bras. I have black, pink, white, nude, more black, more white, blue. But no green.

My first step in remedying this sitch was a trip to Target – they have damn near everything. Suddenly, it’s becoming clear to me why I have no green underwear. Ice cream sundaes? On my ass? REALLY? (Writer’s note: Please excuse the horrid quality of this photo. Do you know how hard it is to take pictures of underwear in Target without seeming like a total creeper?). Okay. So maybe Target doesn’t have everything.

I decided to shift my shopping endeavors to that of the internet variety. I found the lovely Shamrock thong from Old Navy, pictured above. Hmm. Seasonal and quirky, but not really what I’m going for. They also had the same print in a boy short. Fabulous. Next.

Victoria’s Secret. Her secret is that she doesn’t really like green. Except the variety of the green from your wallet going to her cash registers. I had no luck finding green – because I stubbornly refuse to consider “chartreuse” to be green. And hey, Vicki? A “Search By Color” function would be fabulous.

At Gap Body (My favorite, y’all), I did find a cute pair – green stripey bikini undies, but admittedly was so tuckered out by the search, I have yet to buy them. They’re just sitting stubbornly in my cart.

For some reason, green just isn’t a popular color for underwear. It’s a fashion mystery that completely boggles my mind and destroys my plan to become the hyperactive underwear-matchy-girl again. It’s a shame, really.

But I’m not giving up my dream. Oh no, not me. I still have hopes of a drawer full of green drawers.

Someday.

5 Responses to “And Now I Know Why I Have No Green Panties by @sarahinmi”

1. TJB says:

   03/04/2010 at 10:19 am

   You are correct green is not a popular color for undies, unless it has some funky pattern on it.

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2. middle-aged-woman says:

   03/04/2010 at 3:55 pm

   I know all the ice cream I ingest goes right to my ass. So the underwear is not a surprise.

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3. Al_Pal says:

   03/06/2010 at 12:52 am

   Heh. I have a couple of them in chartreuse, an OLD forest-color pair from VS, and a quite-old bra & undies set from VS in forest burnout velvet on black background.

   Maybe green’ll make a comeback? ;p

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4. owlfan says:

   03/08/2010 at 7:45 am

   I never realized green was that hard to find in underwear. I happen to be wearing a pale green pair right now. Hanes. Found them in a 3 pack at Target. Of course you can’t get 3 of the same color unless it’s white.

   What’s really hard to find are green socks. Just green, no shamrocks or other doodads. Just plain green. My mom offered to knit me a pair of socks and we can’t find green sock yarn either. It’s an anti-green conspiracy, I tell ya.

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   Dawn (aka Kaiser Mommy) Reply:
   March 12th, 2010 at 6:48 am

   etsy etsy etsy http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_query=phatfiber+green+sock&search_type=handmade

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