![]() Mariusz, who was happy to be roped in by Megan, says he's wearing black and red stripy boxers to match his red jumper. "I thought I'd wear the weirdest ones I've got so it's entertaining!" she explains. She tells me she has pictures of avocados all over her knickers, along with the slogan Avo-Nice-Day. "I moved to London in September and heard about this on Secret London," says Megan. Standing behind me are Megan and Mariusz. ![]() Photo: Samantha Rea "My fiancé dumped me at the end of last year and I wrote a fuck-it list - like a bucket list - of 100 fun things I wanted to do over the next year" He says: "Some figure-hugging black boxers that complement my physique!" This is not Farhan's first rodeo. At this assembling stage, I cannot see Jon's ahem, chosen attire, so I ask him what he's got on under his trousers. He loved it - he's gutted he can't be here today". "With Christmas and New Year over, and nothing much 'til Easter, this brightens up a cold, dark January," says a guy on my right called Jon, who's done this twice before. Photo: Samantha Reaīut sight-seeing in our smalls comes later - first we gather fully clothed in Trafalgar Square, outside the National Gallery. Later today I will feel the breeze beneath my boxers on a stroll across Tower Bridge, and Farhan tells me they once ended up in the Tate Modern where, "the curator came up to us and asked if we were making rival artistic statements!" Naomi, Sarah and Rachel in Canary Wharf. However, what I didn't realise is that participants pop up for air at various tube stations, taking trouser-free detours to various London landmarks. The event, as you might imagine, consists of shed loads of Londoners taking their trousers off for a casual Sunday commute. ![]() It's an honour to make his debut as a leader this year, he says.īums! Photo: Sam Newell "I brought my 14 year old son last time. ![]() Brought to London by the Stiff Upper Lip Society, this is Farhan's seventh pants-only expedition. It's the UK's 10th anniversary of the event, and while trouserless-travelling might seem to have a distinctly British quirk about it, the event actually originally began in New York as the No Pants Subway Ride, in 2002. Photo: Samantha Rea "The Tate curator came up to us and asked if we were making rival artistic statements!" Vivian spent an hour choosing her knickers. Martin's Lane, recuperating with a beer, after three hours of parading around the London Underground - and beyond - in our pants. "The first time I did the No Trousers Tube Ride, a man in his sixties sitting opposite me said sternly: 'Young man! What are you doing in your pants?' I told him, and he said, 'that sounds splendid!' Then he pulled down his trousers and sat with them round his ankles for the rest of the journey!" I am talking to Farhan, one of the group leaders of this afternoon's No Trousers Tube Ride. ![]()
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