Sweet Me Ice Cream Panties for Women with Cotton Gusset

Ice Cream comes from the Sweet Me range, which is the brand's playful end. A novelty print lives or dies on its color, and color is the one thing a cheap print gets wrong first, so the method matters more here than the motif does.

Why a Novelty Print Works

• Saturated color that stays saturated. Sublimation dyes the fiber itself, so a bright design does not wash down to a chalky version of itself after a season.
• Nothing raised to interrupt it. Flat seams and no sewn-in label, so the motifs run across the panel without a ridge cutting one in half.
• Four-way stretch in the outer knit, which keeps the shapes in proportion rather than pulling them long in one direction.
• A 95% cotton gusset, so the part that matters for comfort is not compromised by the part that carries the print.

How Bright Color Behaves

A surface print holds its brightness only as long as the printed layer stays intact, and that layer is the first casualty of a washing machine. With nothing coated over the surface there is no layer to lose, which is why a design like this keeps looking new for longer than the price would suggest.

Where a Playful Print Fits

Nobody sees this except you, which is the whole appeal of a novelty print on underwear and worth saying plainly. It is the drawer's cheerful pair, the one that makes an ordinary Tuesday marginally better, and that is a legitimate purchase rather than a frivolous one. It is also the easiest kind of print to give as a gift, since a print with a joke in it travels better than a pattern does. Under clothes it behaves like any everyday pair, invisible under mid and dark tones and finished flat at both edges so nothing prints through. It answers to no occasion and no season; it is the same ordinary garment carrying a good mood.

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.
• Styles: slip and thong.
• 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 the colors fade in the wash? The brightness belongs to the thread itself, so a wash cycle has nothing to strip. A gentle cycle looks after the elastane, and the elastane is what ages.

Slip or thong? The slip gives the print a full rear panel and reads as a complete design. The thong shows far less of it and works more as a block of color. The fit at the hip is identical either way.