Baroque Rome High Waisted Briefs for Women, Cotton Gusset

Rome belongs to the Baroque range, whose prints borrow the ornamental scrollwork of the period rather than any single motif. What changes here is not the fabric but the cut. This is a high waisted brief, so the waist sits above the navel and the leg opening is finished flat, and that is a genuinely different proposition from a slip rather than a longer version of one.

Why the Waist Sits Flat

• A high waist without a waistband. The top edge is finished flat instead of being gathered onto elastic, which is why it holds its position without pressing a ridge across the stomach.
• The gusset is 95% cotton. The outer knit is polyester and elastane for stretch and recovery, and the cotton is placed where breathability counts.
• Stitched flat seams rather than bonded ones. Glued underwear tends to come apart in a machine wash, while these are sewn and survive normal laundering.
• More coverage at both ends than a slip. A high waisted brief covers more at the waist and more at the leg, which is what makes it the easier choice under thin or clinging fabric.

What Wears Out First

On a high-rise brief the waist fold takes more stress than anywhere else, because it bends every time you sit down. That is exactly where a surface print fails first, and it is the reason sublimation matters here more than it does on a low rise: the color is dyed into the knit, so there is no printed layer to crack along the crease. The other thing that ages is the elastane, and how fast is set by the wash cycle rather than by the wearing.

What a High Waist Suits

A high waist earns its place under a close-fitting dress, where it removes the two lines a low rise creates, one at the hip and one at the leg. That is the single most common reason people move to this cut. It also holds through a long day on your feet or on a flight, because a waistband above the navel does not slide the way a hip-level one does. None of that makes it a specialist garment; it is a slip with the waistband moved to where you stop noticing it.

Fabric, Sizes and Care

• Outer fabric: 83% polyester, 17% elastane.
• Gusset: 95% cotton, 5% elastane, which is the breathable part of the garment.
• Stretch: four-way, so the knit gives across the body as well as along it.
• Style: high waisted brief.
• Sizes: Small, Medium, Large, X-Large.
• How to measure: run the tape around the widest part of the hip.
• Hip measurement: Small 87 to 93 cm, Medium 94 to 99, Large 100 to 106, X-Large 106 to 116.
• Brand: Mememe, a label that describes itself as Ukrainian and states its underwear is made in Ukraine.
• Finish: flat seams, no elastic bands, no sewn-in labels.
• Care: gentle wash, hand ironing, no dry cleaning.

Before You Order

Will it show under clothes? The two things a brief can show are the waistband and the leg opening, and both are finished flat here rather than on a band, so the usual ridge is absent. What can still show is fabric bulk, and the smoothest result comes from taking the size your measurement lands in rather than sizing down.

Brief or slip? Same fabric, same gusset, same finish. The brief simply covers more, and it stays put higher on the body. If you already know your size in the slip, the same size applies here.