Menswear brand Sunspel is relaunching its original British Boxer Short model, 40 years after it was made famous by an iconic Levi’s advert. However, the story of Sunspel and the boxer short started ...

Boxer Shorts are an American invention, created by the sportswear company Everlast in 1925 for, as you may have guessed, boxers to wear in the ring. However, the elastic-waisted design quickly caught ...

Few garments can claim to have had as much impact as on TV viewers of the 1980s as Sunspel’s boxer shorts. First introduced to Britain in 1947 by John Hill – the great-grandson of the brand’s founder ...

T-shirts, vests and boxer shorts may be the simplest items in one’s wardrobe, but they’re often the hardest to get right. At Sunspel’s factory in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, classic everyday basics are ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How much would you pay for a pair of boxer shorts? The breezy men’s undergarment is now regularly available in ...