Large, often frilly underpants still rocked by the aging beauties of the Greatest Generation. When worn properly, they hold in a woman's
paunch, helping to streamline the figure (and, by that measure, to accentuate
the bosom).
However, due to changing fashions, including the popularization of midriff exposure and
post-sexual revolution distaste for too many strappy accoutrements, such as garters and slips, granny panties have stopped being associated with classy babes, and are now usually only associated with gross old ladies.
"Ok, I think you can take the curlers out now. How are those granny panties fitting?"
"Um, you know I love you and everything, but why is it your fantasy to dress me up like
your grandma?"
"Ew, no! You're supposed to be Lauren
Bacall in
'To Have and Have Not'!"