Editing Boxer shorts (section)

== History ==
[[File:Man sagging woven boxer shorts.JPG|thumb|upright=0.5|Man wearing [[jeans]] over boxer shorts]]

In 1925, Jacob Golomb, founder of [[Everlast (boxing)|Everlast]], designed elastic-waist trunks to replace the leather-belted trunks then worn by boxers. These trunks, now known as ''boxer trunks'', immediately became famous, but were later eclipsed by the popular Jockey-style [[briefs]] beginning in the late 1930s. The two styles, briefs and boxer shorts, had varying ratios of sales for the following fifty years, with strong regional and generational preferences.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}

In 1985, in the U.S.  men's briefs were more popular than boxer shorts, with four times as many briefs sold compared to boxers. Around that time many of the men who preferred boxers were older men who became accustomed to wearing them during their time in the U.S. military, and best selling color of boxers was white. 

Boxer shorts got a fashion boost in 1985 when English model and musician [[Nick Kamen]] stripped to white [[Sunspel]] boxers in a 1950s-style ''launderette'' in a [https://info.sunspel.com/the-laundrette-1985 Levi's commercial] <ref>{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712183258/https://info.sunspel.com/the-laundrette-1985 |date=2018-07-12 }}</ref>.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1986/fashion1.shtml |title=I Love 1986 – Fashion – Boxer Shorts |publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation]] |access-date=2008-05-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://info.sunspel.com/about-sunspel/the-laundrette-1985|title=About Sunspel|work=Sunspel Journal}}</ref> After that time boxers were beginning to become popular among young men, who wore boxers with varying colors and prints.<ref name=Kannerp30>Kanner, Bernice. "Briefs Encounter: The Long and Shorts of It" ("On Madison Avenue" column). ''[[New York Magazine]]''. [[New York Media, LLC]], April 29, 1985. Vol. 18, No. 17. ISSN 0028-7369. Start p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=jbkBAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28 28]. CITED: p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=jbkBAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30 30].</ref>

Since the 1990s, some men also opt for [[boxer briefs]] as a compromise between the two.  {{As of|2006}}, one American manufacturer reported that woven boxer shorts made up 15–20 per cent of men's underwear sales, but had been declining in popularity compared to boxer briefs since 2003.<ref name="NAFTA">{{cite book |last1=Rodriguez |first1=Laura |title=Woven Cotton Boxer Shorts: Probable Effect of Modifications of NAFTA Rules of Origin for Goods of Canada and Mexico, Inv. NAFTA-103-13 |date=2006 |publisher=DIANE Publishing |location=Washington DC |isbn=978-1-4578-1912-4 |page=4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZkgUc6cxhpYC |access-date=8 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref>