Wish is a website that has blown up in popularity over the last several years. On it, you can buy products directly from manufacturers in China, cutting out layers of added costs that usually come with finding similar products in stores. In fact, it’s not uncommon to find items on Wish listed as $1 or free, and you only have to pay to ship.
Underwear is one such product that you can find with such markdowns. As an underwear aficionado, I’m always looking for new briefs to buy. Yet, as an underwear critic, I’m also on the lookout for value, style, and comfort when I’m hunting for new underwear. A good pair of underwear will have all three elements: style, good value, and comfort.
Can a pair of free undies check all those boxes? Here’s my review of “Classic Solid Men Briefs Underwear Low Waist Briefs Shorts Underpants Male Panties Underwear Men Cotton Brief Pants” from Wish. (Yes… that is actually how they are listed.)
The Full Review
Underwear Style
To be honest, when I first looked at the underwear through the packaging, I was a bit thrown off by the rainbow waistband that I didn’t remember (apparently that was always a part of it– I had just forgotten as much in the months between ordering them and receiving them), but otherwise, I thought they looked like they were going to be nice. As I mention in the video, I wasn’t expecting something ultra-luxe. But, I was expecting to get some briefs that looked fun, even if they weren’t the greatest quality.
Instead, I got one of the weirdest cuts I’ve ever seen for underwear.
Unlike what’s shown in the image of the underwear on the wish app, these certainly did not have full booty coverage. The fabric cuts down the center of the butt cheek at a sharp angle, exposing a lot of butt. I own jock straps that show less of my butt.
Plus, you’ve got an incredibly narrow cut on the front side of the undies. While a high hip cut can be very sexy and fashionable, these undies fail to do so. Rather than contributing to sex appeal, the revealing, restricting cut of these undies leaves you looking less like a snack and more like a man who has been living on a deserted island for the last twenty years, and the only underwear he has to wear is the pair of briefs he wore as a seven-year-old when he was first marooned.
Underwear Fit
Two words come to mind when thinking of the fit of this underwear: plain wrong.
You could further elaborate with other couplets, such as “butt triangle,” “no crotch,” or “hell no.”
Underwear Quality
Like I point out in the video, these briefs are filled with shoddy, prominent stitching, which is the first sign that they’re poorly constructed. On top of that, you can see the gap in the waistband where the elastic meets, and it forms, you guessed it, another prominent stitch that will scratch into your lower back. The fabric used for the bulk of the brief also seems to have a low thread count.
At first, it feels soft to the touch, but I think that what you’re mostly feeling is how thin the fabric is. Wear these briefs for much time, and they’re not going to feel silky and luxurious. They’re going to be scratchy and uncomfortable. Because they’re cut so poorly, you’ll also probably have your naughty bits fully fallen outside of them and being cut into by cheap seams of elastic.
Overall
Overall, these may be the least comfortable, worst-looking undies I’ve worn in a long time. I still have some trunks from high school that are faded and starting to look threadbare in places, and I would pick those over these Wish undies any day.
When I bought these, they were free, plus a $4 fee for shipping… that’s $4 too much. If Wish were to pay me to take another pair, I would accept and then happily place them in my utility closet to be used as dust rags.
Since I haven’t made a graphic for a score of 0 out of 5, I’ll give these a 1 out of 5.
