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The boys in their summer dresses

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 7:10 pm
by Ralph
I was doing some random googling this morning and ran across this Washington Post article from a couple of years ago. Nothing especially profound or informative, but it gave me a chuckle.

Re: The boys in their summer dresses

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 8:13 pm
by partlyscot
I'm hoping to find a suitable "dress" for this Summer, still can't quite nail down what I want though.

The mention of codpieces is also interesting, there are many ways that can become a fashion item. On the one hand, a bit of gentle disguising can be useful if you want to wear something like yoga pants, thinking dance belt here. Or, you can have a bit of fun with various levels of exaggeration.

Wikipedia has some points I hadn't considered, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codpiece particularly the bit about more exaggerated styles being common when syphilis and possible bandaging became a thing. (Ow!) Something there about those who exaggerate having more need to?