This Is How Far Men’s Underwear Has Come In 100 Years

In the first (and only true) season of True Detective, a bewigged Matthew McConaughey says: “Time is a flat circle. Everything we’ve ever done or will do, we’re gonna do over and over and over again…forever.” He was paraphrasing Friedrich Nietzsche on the concept of “eternal recurrence,” which states more or less that our existence will replay itself on an infinite loop, since time and space are infinite. But he might as well have been talking about the history of men’s underwear. As a video by Mode.com illustrates, men have been stuck in the same time loop of boxers and briefs and boxer briefs since about the 1930s. See more at Esquire.