Well, What Were You Wearing?

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17. Eldridge Cleaver designed what he called Penis Pants in the 1970s

Don't know whether he was serious, being satirical, or maybe was just losing it mentally after years of activism

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1975/9/26/eldridge-cleavers-new-pants-peldridge-cleavers/


The fact is codpieces and tights were a fashion once- don't know whether they will return.

In general, I do think it may be time to consider male clothing and the power suit.

There is a professor of fashion at Pasadena City College who has done some interesting research on fashion and politics and revolution. Some of the nobility in France prior to the Revolution started dressing down-to fit in better or tp not make themselves targets, or other reasons. Maybe it was as part of that movement that Marie Antoinette began dressing up as a milkmaid.

At the Smithsonian, years ago, I remember the display of clothing worn by women at different period in our history. I was struck by the lightness, almost flimsiness of ball gown reception-wear in the late 1700s. Dresses that were almost like the beach dress fashions in the 1960s that many women started to wear to parties. It seemed especially significant because there were very cold winters then yet those fashions were worn to winter events.

So I think I am asking a serious question.