My friend @city-lights-like-rain sent me a prompt several months ago, and it spawned a fully-fledged fic, which I turned around and asked her to beta. Because I am a simultaneously wonderful and terrible friend.
Justin had first learned about the theory of paradigm shifts back in junior year during his class on the history and philosophy of science. It was just another definition for one of the short answers in the midterm exam: a fundamental change in the basic concepts of and experimental practices within a given scientific discipline. It was a benign factoid to be stored away, something to be revisited in a later essay: compare and contrast the views of Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper on the scientific process.
He hadn’t understood the just how jarring such a fundamental shift could be until he broke up with Adam.
GOSH I logged back in to this blue hellsite because LOOK WHAT MY FRIEND @lecrivaineanonyme wrote for me??? Everyone should read it because it’s EXCELLENT.
everytime u see a old photo of a snazzy 1920s dude in a suit remember what lurks beneath
okay why are you guys reblogging this and tagging it as reference do you plan on drawing 20s gangsters in their underwear i better see these
I couldn’t help myself
To be fair, underwear that fully covers the body from neck to knees makes a lot of sense when you’re wearing a dry-clean-only suit as your everyday outfit; it prevents sweat from soiling the garment’s inner layer, and thus lets you go longer between launderings. The development of modern underwear tracks pretty much directly with the shift to washable daywear, which removes much of the need for such extensive protection.
The part that makes least sense is how it’s sleeveless and thus doesn’t protect suits from armpit sweat. Surely the armpit is one of the most important places to put this kind of undergarment? T-shirts were originally designed as an undergarment that does protect clothing from armpit sweat, but they weren’t popularized yet in the 20s.
Most union suits did indeed have full or partial sleeves; the ones pictured in the original post are more fashionable than functional, probably intended to be worn with eveningwear.
Wow this was informative
Eveningwear? So… this is 1920s men’s lingerie. GTK
Bring back prissy gangster lingerie 2k16
The white one I am pretty sure is for use with evening wear. A man with a boiled shirt isn’t going to have to wear that shirt again without laundering occurring first. The other two are probably more for under sporting wear; again, sporting wear was a clothing type for people with more clothes and also funds for having laundry done.
Mind you, since men’s clothing and the rules for wearing it would preclude the pattern of their under-romper from being displayed, they could have mixed it up.
