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Originally Posted by hal9000i

Well these days you are lucky if you get anything at all along these lines-- everything is so politically correct and everyone bending over backwards to be "sensitive" and woke...

But anyway to your point:

It does seem that black is favored over white undies-- and most likely for the reason that it's considered more riske' and sexier.

Consider the old pantyhose vs. garter belt and stockings debate. How many times in stripping scenes/clothes loss scenes do you see the woman stripped down to pantyhose compared to garter belt and stockings? it almost always the latter. Why? I think because the garter belt and stockings are considered sexier where pantyhose is considered more utilitarian.

I'll give you a perfect example of this mindset-- "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark"-- Casandra Peterson plays the title character and has excellent legs. From the cut of iconic dress, she can only be wearing pantyhose. There is no question about it. Yet in one scene we have her undressing and being spied on by a boy looking through a window. As she takes off the dress, she's somehow magically in...you guessed it... a garter belt and stockings. Why? because pantyhose was not considered sexy enough.

I also think it mitigates embarrassment somewhat...I mean if you're in public in your underwear as a woman, if it's seen as being sexy, there's an added element there that takes a bit of the sting out of the ridicule.

One final point-- it seems as times progresses you get less and less cheesecake in films...and when you do, the girl seems to be in what I term "costume underwear"...a tank top and volleyball shorts or something. Not what you would consider "real" underwear.

Case in point: a few years ago the film "Gravity" came out starring Sandra Bullock. As part of what can only be termed planned and staged publicity for the film, there was a flap with Bullock complaining of having to do scenes in her underwear...she stopped short of saying "exploitive" but made it seem like that was a big point of contention with the director. Now Sandra Bullock doesn't wear anything she doesn't want in films at this point so you know immediately that this is all B.S.

And the "underwear" that Bullock wore? a tank top and bicycle shorts. "Costume" underwear.

I think the black underwear thing is a holdover from an earlier generation. In the 40's and 50's men found it ultra sexy because most women wore plain white (or pink) underwear. Black was only worn by "bad girls". Mid 20th century pop culture branded them the height of sexiness, and now it's a well established "fact" that black bras and panties are the sexiest thing a woman can wear.