Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy launches to the public this week, and a group of women descended on the streets of London in control pants, paying homage to the OG of “Big Knickers” who put them on the map 24 years ago

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EDITORIAL USE ONLY A group of midlife women wear ‘big knickers’ in the style of Bridget Jones outside the filming location of her Southwark flat to celebrate the release of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and as part of the launch of JD Williams body of research about the nations favourite style of knicker. Issue date: Thursday February 13, 2025. PA Photo. A survey of 2,000 women aged 40-65 by the fashion brand found that 1 in 8 (13 percent) will be wearing big knickers to see the new film, 80 percent wear them on a regular basis, and 79 percent would wear this style of knicker on a first date. 56 percent choose underwear for themselves, not their partners. Photo caption should read: Jas Lehal/ PA Media Assignments
EDITORIAL USE ONLY A group of midlife women wear ‘big knickers’ in the style of Bridget Jones outside the filming location of her Southwark flat to celebrate the release of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and as part of the launch of JD Williams body of research about the nations favourite style of knicker. Issue date: Thursday February 13, 2025. PA Photo. A survey of 2,000 women aged 40-65 by the fashion brand found that 1 in 8 (13 percent) will be wearing big knickers to see the new film, 80 percent wear them on a regular basis, and 79 percent would wear this style of knicker on a first date. 56 percent choose underwear for themselves, not their partners. Photo caption should read: Jas Lehal/ PA Media Assignments
EDITORIAL USE ONLY A group of midlife women wear ‘big knickers’ in the style of Bridget Jones on the London underground to celebrate the release of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and as part of the launch of JD Williams body of research about the nations favourite style of knicker. Issue date: Thursday February 13, 2025. PA Photo. A survey of 2,000 women aged 40-65 by the fashion brand found that 1 in 8 (13 percent) will be wearing big knickers to see the new film, 80 percent wear them on a regular basis, and 79 percent would wear this style of knicker on a first date. 56 percent choose underwear for themselves, not their partners. Photo caption should read: Jas Lehal/ PA Media Assignments
EDITORIAL USE ONLY A group of midlife women wear ‘big knickers’ in the style of Bridget Jones on the London underground to celebrate the release of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and as part of the launch of JD Williams body of research about the nations favourite style of knicker. Issue date: Thursday February 13, 2025. PA Photo. A survey of 2,000 women aged 40-65 by the fashion brand found that 1 in 8 (13 percent) will be wearing big knickers to see the new film, 80 percent wear them on a regular basis, and 79 percent would wear this style of knicker on a first date. 56 percent choose underwear for themselves, not their partners. Photo caption should read: Jas Lehal/ PA Media Assignments
EDITORIAL USE ONLY A group of midlife women wear ‘big knickers’ in the style of Bridget Jones on the London underground to celebrate the release of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and as part of the launch of JD Williams body of research about the nations favourite style of knicker. Issue date: Thursday February 13, 2025. PA Photo. A survey of 2,000 women aged 40-65 by the fashion brand found that 1 in 8 (13 percent) will be wearing big knickers to see the new film, 80 percent wear them on a regular basis, and 79 percent would wear this style of knicker on a first date. 56 percent choose underwear for themselves, not their partners. Photo caption should read: Jas Lehal/ PA Media Assignments
EDITORIAL USE ONLY A group of midlife women wear ‘big knickers’ in the style of Bridget Jones on the London underground to celebrate the release of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and as part of the launch of JD Williams body of research about the nations favourite style of knicker. Issue date: Thursday February 13, 2025. PA Photo. A survey of 2,000 women aged 40-65 by the fashion brand found that 1 in 8 (13 percent) will be wearing big knickers to see the new film, 80 percent wear them on a regular basis, and 79 percent would wear this style of knicker on a first date. 56 percent choose underwear for themselves, not their partners. Photo caption should read: Jas Lehal/ PA Media Assignments

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