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Best Pouch Design - Though Size Matters...
I’d never found underwear I particularly liked and mostly put up with baggy boxers because all the other the form fitting styles I tried didn’t have a functioning fly and/or were just too confining. Then I became intrigued by this separate pouch idea, with some hesitation being from their more revealing nature. That hesitation went away the moment I slipped them on.Why I Love This Design:Artificial bulge wasn’t what I was seeking and was pleased with how well the raised inner seam and separate pouch tastefully accentuates size, shape and features, with an unexpected freedom of movement that doesn’t obviously add to the public silhouette.I wasn’t looking for athletic style support and was unsure of the boxer freedom I might be surrendering. What I found here was an unconfined feel of things being comfortably nestled in place in a way that especially draws me back every day.Spontaneous occasions was not an expected topic to review, but the difference of these is just too good to leave out. While some may object to the more confining nature of anything but boxers, it’s what these do to manage the occasion that really sets them apart. The upper pouch being separated from leg openings is a welcome contrast to boxers that can hang you up or single pouches that squeeze you in. Ample pouch stretchiness instead expands comfortably to maintain a least conspicuous relaxed position that virtually eliminates need for adjustment.Why Size Matters:What makes this design work as well as it can begins with the convex lower pouch that’s placed slightly above the body-hugging inseam to gently lift and pleasantly cradle things away from the legs. Next, everything is separated for a complimenting look and a freedom of movement not typically found with body hugging styles. The separate outer pouch fly acts more like a hood that’s easily slipped into and easily accessed by lifting the fabric end. All of this is then brought together with a proper match of their size to yours.Once size can’t fit all with most any pouch design. That’s because brands use the same pouch size across all waist sizes. While this works well for a fit within the lower pouch, accommodating the varied sizes inside the upper pouch becomes relative to how tightly or how loosely it's pulled against the body. Some snugness is always needed against the abdomen, rear and around the legs to avoid ride-up and wedging, and to keep everything in place. Too much snugness can cause cumbersome access and even squeeze you out of the fly, particularly when sitting down. Too loose compromises the form flattering upper pouch look, can get things lost fumbling through excess fabric and even allow things to fall through the lower pouch leg opening.To restate what the manufacturer mentions, the size out-of-the-box should fit well for those midway in a size range, with a near average build and a near average relaxed length. For others, the fabric and waistband is stretchy enough to comfortably choose one waist size difference to accommodate a larger or smaller build and/or length. With my slender frame, in-between size 31” waist and average length, this meant that mediums I’d always worn in other styles are a bit loose and I instead need a smaller size. If particularly endowed, I’d have stayed with the mediums for the looser pouch. A larger build/relaxed length would have called for a size up – and so on.David Archy vs Separatec:Trying each product confirmed most all reviewer finds that the only difference between them is the fabric. For me, the Separatec bamboo fabric feels silkier and does bring forward more of a form-fitting look while my David Archy modal fabric preference feels fuller with more flowing look.Final Thoughts:I did find that some brands don’t fit no matter what. The more revealing and higher lift inseam of one particular brand looks to bring the most freedom of any single pouch design, albeit with perhaps some spontaneous time hampering. Full-time vertical placement designs are interesting, though may require a greater than average length to work at all and do look to be the most outwardly visible.Comfortably fitting a guy's every size is what this design does best. To that end, all should function well with a waist size snugness where a fully relaxed length comfortably fills the pouch in the range of just grazing the end to about half an inch of fabric excess.Lastly, my never having a problem being accidentally seen uncovered in tapered boxers needed some rethinking. Thoughts varied from the message a more revealing display might send to whether I wanted to engage in conversations about underwear. What I settled on was either brand probably being okay for the locker room and the Seperatic as the better choice to avoid during sister-in-law visits.I hope you found this review helpful.
M**E
Wonderpants
First off, this is a positive review. I love this underwear, and you might also, but you should approach this relationship (and any relationship) with your eyes open. So here you go:The material is light and comfortable, breathes well, and the underwear is expertly made and fits appropriately. But that’s not why you’re considering them. You’re looking at that “separate pouches” business and the suggestive graphic (or graphic suggestion) and wondering if you are ready to introduce a slightly higher level of complexity into your underworld…You are.BUT I think there is such a thing as too much subtlety, and David Archy crosses the line in his instructive drawings, so I will be clearer. Only your shaft goes through the hole. Do not stuff the entirety of your junk through the hole. The collection will certainly pass, but there is only one pouch on the other side, and you will have defeated the purpose of this delightful article of clothing. The “separate pouches” in question consist of the usual underwear space (enhanced by differently colored fabric around your gandydancers but essentially what you would have with any underwear) and the aforementioned shaftibule on the other side of that hole. The shaftibule enables David Archy to work in a different fly system as well, but more on that later.Usually things work out just by pulling the underwear on. Your shaft is pointing down, the hole is coming up, and there you go, in like Flynn. At first, your frank and beans will call out to each other in alarm, but once reassured that each is still nearby and noticing that they are comfortably held in their respective atria they will settle down. NOW LOOK IN THE MIRROR BEFORE SHOWING ANYONE ELSE, because in all likelihood your days of prancing about the house in your underwear are over, especially if you have older kids. Normal size + shaftibule = HORSE JUNK. My spouse did a double take, gave me an approving nod, and then told me to put on my bathrobe. It’s nothing you won’t see on a Spanish beach, but just know that The Puppetshow is always playing. And frankly, the architecture presumes flaccidity, because, erect, there is nowhere to go but up, leaving you looking like a nocked bow and arrow with nothing to do but shout, “LOOSE!” as you leap upon your partner who will be helpless with laughter anyway.Getting back to the fly. David Archy has chosen a horizontal system that is basically a hood that you pull up and off to relieve yourself and down and over once done. It works really well, but this may be strangely evocative of pop culture archetypes depending on your personality and experience. In my case the first unhooding thought was, “You will bring Captain Solo and the Wookie to me.” This phrase was murmured several times to a variety of urinal stand-ins for Jabba the Hutt. But as the days wore on, I found more and more that I could only think of a scene where the kidnappers yank off the hood of the prisoner to reveal him tied to a chair in an empty warehouse with no help in sight. Especially with the black underwear. My vantage point put me in the shoes of the abductors, and I started to mutter appropriate kidnapping quips with each unhooding. Then I realized that I could be the rescuer just as well as the abductor and instead of shouting, “Western Dog!” or “Your father will pay handsomely for your release!” could say in a reassuring tone, “You’re safe now.” Which I think is easier for the other restroom patrons to hear.So run, don’t walk, to buy this underwear. It will become your new favorite while stimulating centers of your brain that have long lain dormant and enriching your inner life multiple times a day. That’s a pretty good deal.
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