No Pants Day was first observed in 2002. It has now become a global event.
It’s always embarrassing to be caught with
your pants down. But when a thousand others
are dropping their pants for a bizarre tradition, t
he embarrassment can turn into joy.
That’s exactly what happens at metro stations
of big cities on January 13 every year.
Residents of Berlin, London, New York,
Toronto,
Chicago, and many other cities celebrated the
17th annual ‘No Pants Day’ on January 13 by
taking off their trousers and boarding metro
trains.
The event, also called ‘No Pants Subway Ride’,
takes place mostly inside popular subway
stations in big cities. The intention is to
.surprise fellow passengers.
Thousands of commuters, who entered
subway
stations without their pants, showed off their
colourful underwears to the world.
Many even shared pictures of the occasion on
social media.
In cities without an operational metro network,
commuters were advised to travel pantless on
buses and other modes of transport.
"It's a really good time. We just want people to
have an open mind and break out of pants'
prison," Paddy Jane, captain of the No Pants
Society, told reporters in Canada.
The National Gallery in London’s Trafalgar
Square was full of pantless people who then
boarded trains on different tube lines across
the capital.
Apart from Canada and the US, the event has
huge following in the UK, especially in London.
“We read about it and thought it sounded
hilarious. I wasn’t nervous about it. I quite like
the sentiment behind it, instead of a stiff upper
lip it’s having a bit of a laugh,” said a London
resident.










