No pants holiday

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 

17^th 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.