Underwear are clothes worn under others, often next to the skin. They keep outer clothes from being made dirty by sweat.
In ancient Rome, both men and women were known to wear simply wrapped loin-cloths, made from wool, linen or a blend of both, under their outer garments. Only the upper classes would have been able to afford imported silk.
In addition, some women wore a breast band called a strophium or mamillare, made from linen or leather.
In the Middle Ages, the loincloth was replaced in the case of men by loose, trouser-like clothing called braies. Varying in length from upper-thigh to below the knee, the wearer stepped into and then laced or tied around the waist and legs. Braies were usually made of linen, most likely in its natural off-white color, but they could also be sewn from finely woven wool, especially in colder climes.
Braies were not only used as underwear, they were frequently worn by laborers with little else when doing hot work.
Women wore a a loose-fitting, sleeveless undergarment called a chemise underneath their gowns or robes, sometimes with petticoats over the chemise. Elaborately quilted petticoats were sometimes displayed by a cut-away dress, in which case they served a skirt rather than an undergarment.
Early Spanish missionaries in Texas hoped to encourage the spread of European values by offering flannel underwear to Native Americans.
Until the mid-19th century many men didn't wear drawers. They simply wrapped their long shirt-tails under them like a nappy and tucked them in.
The 19th century Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt's performances were renowned for being theatrical. They were so showy, they induced hysterical women into throwing their underwear at him.
Long johns was a two-piece garment consisting of a long-sleeved top and long pants. They were named after American boxer John L. Sullivan who wore a similar garment in the ring during his prime in the 1880s.
In the 1880s German Dr Gustav Jaeger popularized a combined long johns and vest all in one with buttons up the front and a back opening flap.
In Victorian England, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.
Working class women only begun to wear panties in the 1880s. Before then they had relied on layers of petticoats to keep warm.
The T-shirt was invented in 1904 Wisconsin-based Cooper Underwear Company in 1904 as a 'bachelor undershirt'.
Long johns with button crotches were the usual undergarment for men until the American Cooper Underwear Company, a family business based in Kenosha, near Chicago, caused a revolution in 1911. Their undergarment design called the Kenosha Klosed-Krotch featured overlapping fabric flaps designed to keep the crotch closed.
The first underwear print advertisement in the US appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1911.
The Cooper Underwear Co hired Joseph C. Leyendecker, illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post, to create the "Man on the Bag" image to market their "Kenosha Klosed Krotch".
A 19-year-old New York socialite named Mary Phelps Jacob created the first modern bra by tying two silk handkerchiefs together with some pink ribbon. She was granted a patent for the "Backless Brassiere" in November 1914.
When Clark Gable removed his shirt in the 1934 movie It Happened One Night revealing bare skin beneath rather than an undergarment - sales of vests reportedly showed a significant drop.
On January 19, 1935, during a blizzard, Coopers Inc. sold the world's first jockey briefs at the Marshall Field's State Street store in downtown Chicago. Designed by an apparel engineer named Arthur Kneibler, the briefs dispensed with leg sections. The day of its debut, Chicago's popular Marshall Field & Company sold out its stock of 600 packages by noon and sold 12,000 more in the following weeks.
Briefs with a Y-shaped overlapping fly were introduced later in 1935. The Jockey Y-Front brief became Cooper's most sought after item.
Boxer shorts are a type of undergarment typically worn by men. The term has been used in English since the mid-1940s for all-around-elastic shorts, so named after the shorts worn by boxers, for whom unhindered leg movement ("footwork") is very important.
Since the 1940s, the battle of boxer shorts vs briefs has swayed back and forth in western countries.
Calvin Klein was the first designer to make women’s underwear resembling men’s jockey shorts.
Underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009. The bomber's al-Qaeda-backed plot failed because he wore the same underwear for two weeks straight and as a result the bomb's fuse became "damp".
Mormons wear special underwear called temple garments under their clothes as a source of protection from the evils of the world.
Sikh men believe that they should wear the panj kakaar (five articles of faith) at all times. One of the articles is a type of underpants called the kaccha, which are similar to boxer shorts.
Architect Gary Craig of Whitburn in South Tyneside, in North East England put on a record-breaking 211 pairs of underpants, one over the other, in 2010. Beginning with a 40 in pair (Large) and finishing with a 60 in pair (4XL), it took him 25 minutes to get them on. Two years later, his record was beaten when American Janine Keblish overtook him after pulling on 252 pairs of underwear. Later in 2012, the self- styled Geordie Pantsman managed a new record when he wore 302 pairs of underpants.
The average American woman owns approximately 21 pairs of underwear.
Sources Thoughtco, The Book of Firsts by Ian Harrison
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HISTORY
In ancient Rome, both men and women were known to wear simply wrapped loin-cloths, made from wool, linen or a blend of both, under their outer garments. Only the upper classes would have been able to afford imported silk.
In addition, some women wore a breast band called a strophium or mamillare, made from linen or leather.
In the Middle Ages, the loincloth was replaced in the case of men by loose, trouser-like clothing called braies. Varying in length from upper-thigh to below the knee, the wearer stepped into and then laced or tied around the waist and legs. Braies were usually made of linen, most likely in its natural off-white color, but they could also be sewn from finely woven wool, especially in colder climes.
Braies were not only used as underwear, they were frequently worn by laborers with little else when doing hot work.
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| Medieval braies |
Women wore a a loose-fitting, sleeveless undergarment called a chemise underneath their gowns or robes, sometimes with petticoats over the chemise. Elaborately quilted petticoats were sometimes displayed by a cut-away dress, in which case they served a skirt rather than an undergarment.
Early Spanish missionaries in Texas hoped to encourage the spread of European values by offering flannel underwear to Native Americans.
Until the mid-19th century many men didn't wear drawers. They simply wrapped their long shirt-tails under them like a nappy and tucked them in.
The 19th century Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt's performances were renowned for being theatrical. They were so showy, they induced hysterical women into throwing their underwear at him.
Long johns was a two-piece garment consisting of a long-sleeved top and long pants. They were named after American boxer John L. Sullivan who wore a similar garment in the ring during his prime in the 1880s.
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| John L. Sullivan |
In the 1880s German Dr Gustav Jaeger popularized a combined long johns and vest all in one with buttons up the front and a back opening flap.
In Victorian England, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.
Working class women only begun to wear panties in the 1880s. Before then they had relied on layers of petticoats to keep warm.
The T-shirt was invented in 1904 Wisconsin-based Cooper Underwear Company in 1904 as a 'bachelor undershirt'.
Long johns with button crotches were the usual undergarment for men until the American Cooper Underwear Company, a family business based in Kenosha, near Chicago, caused a revolution in 1911. Their undergarment design called the Kenosha Klosed-Krotch featured overlapping fabric flaps designed to keep the crotch closed.
The first underwear print advertisement in the US appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1911.
The Cooper Underwear Co hired Joseph C. Leyendecker, illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post, to create the "Man on the Bag" image to market their "Kenosha Klosed Krotch".
A 19-year-old New York socialite named Mary Phelps Jacob created the first modern bra by tying two silk handkerchiefs together with some pink ribbon. She was granted a patent for the "Backless Brassiere" in November 1914.
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| Jacob's brassiere, from the original patent application. |
When Clark Gable removed his shirt in the 1934 movie It Happened One Night revealing bare skin beneath rather than an undergarment - sales of vests reportedly showed a significant drop.
On January 19, 1935, during a blizzard, Coopers Inc. sold the world's first jockey briefs at the Marshall Field's State Street store in downtown Chicago. Designed by an apparel engineer named Arthur Kneibler, the briefs dispensed with leg sections. The day of its debut, Chicago's popular Marshall Field & Company sold out its stock of 600 packages by noon and sold 12,000 more in the following weeks.
Briefs with a Y-shaped overlapping fly were introduced later in 1935. The Jockey Y-Front brief became Cooper's most sought after item.
Boxer shorts are a type of undergarment typically worn by men. The term has been used in English since the mid-1940s for all-around-elastic shorts, so named after the shorts worn by boxers, for whom unhindered leg movement ("footwork") is very important.
Since the 1940s, the battle of boxer shorts vs briefs has swayed back and forth in western countries.
Calvin Klein was the first designer to make women’s underwear resembling men’s jockey shorts.
Underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009. The bomber's al-Qaeda-backed plot failed because he wore the same underwear for two weeks straight and as a result the bomb's fuse became "damp".
FUN UNDERWEAR FACTS
Mormons wear special underwear called temple garments under their clothes as a source of protection from the evils of the world.
Sikh men believe that they should wear the panj kakaar (five articles of faith) at all times. One of the articles is a type of underpants called the kaccha, which are similar to boxer shorts.
Architect Gary Craig of Whitburn in South Tyneside, in North East England put on a record-breaking 211 pairs of underpants, one over the other, in 2010. Beginning with a 40 in pair (Large) and finishing with a 60 in pair (4XL), it took him 25 minutes to get them on. Two years later, his record was beaten when American Janine Keblish overtook him after pulling on 252 pairs of underwear. Later in 2012, the self- styled Geordie Pantsman managed a new record when he wore 302 pairs of underpants.
The average American woman owns approximately 21 pairs of underwear.
Sources Thoughtco, The Book of Firsts by Ian Harrison
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