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What is No Pants Day and how it is celebrated?

It has been always awkward and uncomfortable to be caught with your pants down. But when it’s a No Pants Day then you started thinking totally opposite of that and your embarrassment turned into joy and pleasure. All this is because of thousands of other people who drop their pants for a bizarre tradition.

No Pants Day 2019

Yes, you heard it right, as the name No Pants Day suggest, that’s exactly what happens at big cities on May 3 every year. However, in some of the places it is now celebrated on January 13 every year but the day was initially started on May 3.

 

The people of Berlin, London, New York, Toronto as well as Chicago, and many other cities and countries celebrates annual  ‘No Pants Day’ celebration on May 3 or January 13 by taking off their trousers, pants and walk around wearing undergarments on the lower part of the body.

The event mostly takes place inside popular subway stations in big cities and that’s why it is also known as ‘No Pants Subway Ride’ in some places.

The main purpose of doing that is to surprise fellow passengers. Thousands of travellers, who arrived subway stations without their pants, revealed their colourful underwear’s to the world and too without hesitation. This has become a tradition now in big cities which is held every year and nowadays people have also started liking it and also participate in it with full pleasure.

Many people also even shared their pictures of the event on social media with a #NoPantsDay

About No Pants Day

The No Pants Day is a yearly event which is celebrated in several countries. Originally the day is celebrated on first Friday in May, since the year 2016 and it currently occurs in January in some parts of the other countries.

This year in 2019, the day is going to be celebrated on Friday, 3rd May 2019.The day is celebrated just by wearing undergarments publicly on the lower part of the body.

History of No Pants Day

It all started at the University of Texas in Austin, there was a small campus club which was known as the Knighthood of Buh who thought that dropping trousers on the first Friday of May was a funny trick for the end of the semester. After which it turn out to be popular and for few years it was informal but the promotion efforts started beginning in the year 2000. The event then attracted attention in other states as well as several parts of Canada too. Not only this, but also the event started spreading in other counties such as France, Sweden, Australia, Finland, and the United Kingdom.

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