TapeLenders/Skivvies

Don't get your manties in a wad. Buy some new ones as gifts, instead! May we suggest TapeLenders?

TAPELENDERS/SKIVVIES Austin's queer video and gay pride nerve center features more than just rainbow windsocks and Jeff Stryker show-and-tells. Aside from a brilliant (quite literally) pile of prismic prizes, from every type of flag in the LGBT union to some surprisingly non-heinous homegoods, TapeLenders proves that somewhere over the rainbow, there does exist a smidge of taste. And of course, there's the video catalog a mere stumble down the staircase loaded with queer-interest cinema and sinema. The most thrilling division of TL, however, is Skivvies, Everyone knows where to get panties, but what about where to get *man*ties? You know, manties, men's underwear more stimulating than a gross of tighty-whities yet less mortifying than the hysterical boxers aisle at Wal-Mart. Metro-, pomo-, and pyro-sexuals alike may revel in the panoply of underpants that is Skivvies, the undergarment and accessories store within a store at Tapelenders. Some of you will be excited to know they carry Andrew Christian, Diesel, 2xist, GinchGonch, Timoteo, Justus Boyz, Unico, Private Structure, Gigo, Pikanta, Joe Schneider, N2N, Cin2, Rufskin, PPU, Priape. And others of you will look at the ceiling and whistle and pretend like you don't know how hot that is, and rush right down there the minute she isn't looking. Skivvies' selection is butt-numbingly delicious, and should be checked out if only for the remarkable number of ways to arrange those things. (Andrew Christian's Show-It Technology comes to mind.) The target is obviously the gay market, but really, if you guys (straight, dyke, and lady guys) knew what type of man pants your lovers liked, you'd get a lot more action. Trust us. 1114 W. Fifth, Ste 201, 472-0844, www.tapelenders.com