Riders go pantless on Metro for ‘No Pants Subway Ride’

WASHINGTON — If passengers had kept their SmarTrip cards in their pants pocket, they wouldn’t have been able to board Metro Sunday afternoon, because they weren’t wearing any pants. It was “No Pants Subway Ride” on Metro — a worldwide event, wherever people cared to leave their pants at home and ride public transit.

Of course, many shared pictures of their adventures on social media.

“I hate wearing pants, I never wear them. I’m a nudist by trade so if I could walk around every day like this I would,” says Faith Senz of Baltimore, who definitely attracted attention in a pink tank top and black panties.

Not everyone who holds the vertical poles on moving Metro cars does it quite like Faith.

“We’re also pole dancers so we were doing some tricks out on the Metro,” Senz says.

The riders without pants say they did it because it’s fun.

“It’s just a fun event, it’s something that’s done all over the world, in every major city with a Metro basically,” says Masha Maister, visiting from New Jersey.

Maister was perfectly matched — sensible black pumps, maroon knit shirt, pink scarf … and no pants.

“It’s working great, nice breeze which I really like, the breeze is really great,” Maister says.

Those without pants say it’s not so hard to leave home in your undies and saunter over to the Metro station.

“Once you do it, the fear of being embarrassed, am I going to be the only one, all goes away as soon as everyone else joins in,” says Andrew Bossi of D.C.

More than a dozen a riders in their undies rode Metro.