Runderwear Anti-VPL Hipster

The Runderwear Anti-VPL Hipster, which I have in size small, prides itself on their "Anti-VPL," aka zero Visible Pany Line. For one, I could care less about a panty line, so perhaps it's my fault for falling prey to the company's "award-winning" claims and good marketing and paying good money for these. Besides, I thought, what could go wrong with a product by the cute and catchy name of Runderwear?

It turns out, plenty. For one, the waist band is wide, and the butt fabric is cut too far in, too narrow, making for an odd fit. The fabric sort of hovers awkwardly in a loose way atop the skin, which gets worse and worse the longer they're worn. If I wore them without pants, I think the wind would pick up the cheek fabric and fly me away!

Furthermore, can we say “wedgie?” OK, that's an instant deal breaker, am I right?! Within one mile of a 5k trail run, I had eight wedgies. Eight! Eventually, I got tired of digging them out of my butt and let them sit there uncomfortably. If I were running longer than 5k that day, I absolutely would have stopped to remove them completely.

After that experience, I didn't give up on them. I tried to run in various styles of pants (stretchy tights, spandex shorts, track pants), but that did not fix the wedgie and weird hover-fabric dilemma. 

Finally, I would much rather have a VPL (Visible Panty Line) than a wedgie any day, wouldn't you?

To make matters worse, when I emailed the company about my dissatisfaction with these and another pair of their underwear (the Merino Hipster), they did not offer a refund but instead said they'd send me a G-string. Was that some kind of sarcastic joke? I declined, and they said they'd send a brief to try instead, but I never received it.