Hi! I have a new article for Pillow Talk, a new series I am doing with Xdress!
In the decades that I have been wearing panties and bras and camisoles under my boy clothes, I have never been caught.
As far as I know.
A bra is noticeable. The indent of the shoulder strap, the possible slip of a shirt collar revealing the lacey top edging of it… Panties are noticeable. The bright, scalloped edging peeking over the top of your waistband, the subtle riding up combined with the risks of crouching down…
I feel that if you underdress, and I certainly do, you need to accept the reality that it’s possible that someone will notice, no matter how careful, or optimistic, you are.
The risk of underdressing, in my opinion, does not open up the possibility that someone will question what you’re wearing. I really think that most people have the manners, and good sense, to not tell you that they see your panties.
The risk comes from that person telling someone else. Let’s face it, people gossip, especially in the workplace. It’s objectively more fun to tell your work bestie that the guy in accounting is wearing a pink thong. Gossip rarely is contained between two people and soon everyone is talking about your pink thong.
Before you know it, you are not the staff accountant anymore, you are now the company’s resident drag queen as the rumors and gossip has snowballed into something bigger. People will likely act differently around you, and it won’t take long for you to catch wind of what everyone else is talking about.
And then what?
Sure, you may not care about workplace gossip and you may not care that everyone knows, but I would imagine it gets pretty annoying noticing that people whispering behind your back, coworkers suddenly clamming up when you walk into the room, and the office jerk making subtle comments towards you in front of everyone.
Soon your job becomes more unbearable than it already was.
Gossip does that, regardless of what the gossip is, and regardless if it’s true or not.
That’s the risk of underdressing.
Love, Hannah
Hannah McKnight 