“I like to think of and inspire my customers to think about clothing in the same way we think about food and that what we put on our bodies is just as important as what we put in them,” Hanes says of her choice to use and source local cotton, noting its breathability and recyclability. Hanes told me that she decided to launch the line after “having a hard time finding plain black cotton underwear.” The choices, she said, were either “Gap, where they were always out of size in the simple colors and cuts, uncomfortable sizing and questionable dyes and fabrics from Target, or $80 undies from Switzerland.” And so she set out to make her own, in classic styles and cuts using cotton from local mills near her hometown in North Carolina. Lake Jane is a very small brand thoughtfully designed and made in the USA (mostly in North Carolina) by Katherine Hanes (no relation to her competitors of the same name!). I didn’t know cotton underwear could feel so luxurious! This brand was enthusiastically recommended to me by another Glossier team member and she was not wrong. So I looked around, asked a lot of people, and over the course of a few weeks tested a lot of underwear. Being a mom who wants to wear comfortable, cotton underwear shouldn’t relegate me to “granny panties” and I knew there had to be better options out there. Julia Jaffe, a gynecologist at Gramercy Gynecology notes that “there’s no clear evidence” linking wearing synthetic underwear to infection, she notes that “it’s plausible that wearing cotton underwear may decrease the risk of UTI and vaginitis because it avoids trapping heat and moisture.”) I also wanted to find underwear that was cute. Having a baby wreaks havoc on your vagina, and, afterward, you want to be as nice to it as possible. I wanted to wear breathable cotton or natural fibers only. After I nixed thongs, I also ousted other styles I deemed too uncomfortable: boy shorts, half-thongs, and anything low-rise. I wanted to be able to grab a pair from the drawer and know that it would always be “the good pair.” I wanted my underwear to be comfortable, above all else. I shoved my lacy Cosabellas to a back corner of my underwear drawer and forgot they were there.Īs I adjusted to being a mother while also being a person who works a demanding, fast-paced job, I decided I wanted my underwear to do more for me by doing less. Nothing like labor-induced hemorrhoids to foster a feeling of never wanting to put a string of fabric there ever again. After I had a baby I swore off thongs for good.
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