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Friday, April 9, 2021
This final image of a Don Wight work leaves me wondering if it was unfinished
or if the three men's faces (and one upper torso) were done that way for effect.
The 1950s is not a decade most would associate with male bikini underwear, but in fact while men were expected to be modest in public and the ubiquitous white Y-fronts were for the locker room, there was any amount of very daring and adventurous underwear on the market. The briefs in this rather intriguing work were therefore quite contemporaneous and not "wishful thinking".
I don't remember a high level of modesty in 1950s lockerrooms. I was learning to swim at the YMCA, and everyone was naked. Anyway this picture is an attention-getter regardless of the artist's motivation.
I'm on board with the false modesty, but not unfamiliar with the male bravado of the male changing room, I was meaning that if you changed into a pair of sheer, one-ply pair of bikini briefs in a male changing room, your days on the team would have been numbered! That changed with the Jockey Skants bikini brief, which was cleverly marketed as a replacement for the jockstrap, clever marketing that changed public acceptability. Before then, it was strictly whitey and not so tighty.
The 1950s is not a decade most would associate with male bikini underwear, but in fact while men were expected to be modest in public and the ubiquitous white Y-fronts were for the locker room, there was any amount of very daring and adventurous underwear on the market. The briefs in this rather intriguing work were therefore quite contemporaneous and not "wishful thinking".
ReplyDeleteInteresting historical detail. Thanks!
DeleteI don't remember a high level of modesty in 1950s lockerrooms. I was learning to swim at the YMCA, and everyone was naked. Anyway this picture is an attention-getter regardless of the artist's motivation.
ReplyDeleteAs Calorman lets us know, that was probably their underwear, so they could have been changing into our out of their clothes.
DeleteOops. I misunderstood his comment.
DeleteI'm on board with the false modesty, but not unfamiliar with the male bravado of the male changing room, I was meaning that if you changed into a pair of sheer, one-ply pair of bikini briefs in a male changing room, your days on the team would have been numbered! That changed with the Jockey Skants bikini brief, which was cleverly marketed as a replacement for the jockstrap, clever marketing that changed public acceptability. Before then, it was strictly whitey and not so tighty.
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