# Textile School, ‘Anatomy of Men’s Underwear’, 2012 > [!cite] > Textile School. ‘Anatomy of Men’s Underwear – Briefs’. *Textile School*, 25 April 2012. [https://www.textileschool.com/308/anatomy-of-mens-underwear-briefs/](https://www.textileschool.com/308/anatomy-of-mens-underwear-briefs/). --- ‘Here’s an interesting and rather whimsical fact about jock straps. The size of the cup gets larger as you go up in waistband size. This, of course, makes no sense because there is absolutely no correlation between a man’s waist size and the size of his package. So, why does the industry do this? Well, I spoke with several jock manufacturers and all confirmed this sizing to be the industry practice. Why? Because men are unwilling to assign a cup size to their “package.” Women do it all the time with breast size, but men simply won’t. So, fit men with an admirable package must either get a jock with too big a waistband, or one with too small a cup. At least, now you know how a jock’s cup is sized.’ [[Textile School, ‘Anatomy of Men’s Underwear’, 2012|(Textile School 2012)]] ^2bb83b