Answer (1 of 15): Basically in the UK the term ‘underwear’ is an all embracing generic name for any garments usually worn next to the skin under other clothes. It is not a term for any specific item. So ‘underwear’ would include vests, singlets, pants (not as in trousers), underpants, briefs, box
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