The Anonymous Widower

They’re Only A Five-Pack Of Mens’sTrunks

With all this hot weather, I needed some more Marks and Spencer’s trunks to keep myself comfortable and cool.

I liked the overall packaging, so I took these pictures.

Note.

1. Most of the packaging is a piece of carefully cut and folded cardboard.
2. It was probably done with love by a robot.
3. It’s almost folded into a pair of crocodile’s jaws, so the product is held safely.
4. All five pairs were still in the packaging, when I brought them home.

But then as the product was made in Bangladesh, where crocodiles are native, I would expect them to get this type of packaging right.

In some ways the hook, is the most interesting part of the packaging, as it appears to have been stamped out of a sheet of quality laminated cardboard.

My father was a letterpress printer in the 1950s and one of the specialties of his business was stamping out components like these on one of his two Original Heidelberg printing machines.

Around the turn of the last century, I had a friend, who could design origami packaging like this. Quality and sustainable ideas like these will keep going around and around.

May 29, 2026 - Posted by AnonW | Design, Manufacturing, Shopping, World | Cardboard, Clothes, Good Design, Marks and Spencer, Packaging, sustainability, Underwear