Hanes Cotton 10-Pack Review: Fifteen Dollars, Ten Briefs, No Personality
This is the opposite of a Calvin Klein belt. Ten cotton briefs, a skinny Hanes script on the waist, black / magenta / indigo / white / a leaf print / dots, fifteen dollars. Eighty-seven hundred reviews. A 4.3. We reviewed Hanes as a sports bra and a T-shirt bra. This is the underwear that dies in a dryer and gets replaced without a ceremony. Full coverage, mid-to-high, not a thong, not seamless.
If you wanted a wirarpa high-waist, you wanted more band and fewer prints. If you wanted ten pairs so laundry is not a personality, stay.
The pack is the product
Cotton jersey. Thin waist. It can roll if you size it like a thong. Size the hip. Prints are the ones you lose in the wash; black and white are the workhorses. White is opaque enough until it is not — buy it for white days, not for a promise. Ten pairs means one lemon is a rounding error, which is the entire Hanes argument versus a no-name five-pack.
Ten pairs. The prints are optional. The cotton is not.
Wash, rise, honesty
Skip the dryer if you want the elastic to see next year. Heat is how a $1.50 brief becomes a $1.50 scrunchie. Rise sits below the navel on the still — full coverage in the back, not a grandma brief unless you size up. Check the Size Guide. Compare to Fruit of the Loom if you wanted that other drugstore name.
Who it's for
The drawer. Not a gift with a bow. Not a date. Fifteen dollars for ten is the correct boring number.
Pros
- Ten pairs so one casualty is not a crisis
- Cotton that breathes
- Full back you can sit down in
- A name that will take a return
- Price per pair that makes lace optional
Cons
- Thin waist can roll
- Prints look like a gift-shop three-pack
- Not high-waist wirarpa energy
- White can be less opaque than the stack
- Dryer is a mass extinction event
A $15 cotton ten-pack. Size the hip, hang the elastic, wear the solids, and stop expecting a waistband with a personality.
