The discovery of the Oz Iceman is of great significance to the study of fashion history more than 5,000 years ago. The 45-year-old energetic farmer or shepherd's shoes, which are wide and light, are made of a net wrapped in deerskin and bark and filled with hay, and successfully attract the attention of Czechs. His tights (leggings, to be exact) also look fashionable. But today's focus is his belt.
As the name implies, the belt is wrapped around the waist, and another piece of cloth extends from the back to the front, covering sensitive parts, and is fixed on the belt in front, with an extra piece hanging in front. This may be the earliest kind of men's underwear and the earliest way for men to wrap important parts.
This way is very popular, and various cultures have invented this kind of underwear. This kind of belt is often seen in Egyptian murals, but its style is far more gorgeous than that of the Oz Iceman. Viewers who have seen "300" also know what those sexy little leather skirts of Sparta in the hot spring pass are like. Babylon and Assyria, under the long or short robe "Candice", also need hemp fig leaf. The same is true of indigenous people. The indigenous people in the Caribbean hung soft cloth around their waist, and the indigenous people in the western highlands of New Guinea wisely chose half-cut gourd to increase protection.
So is China. The ancient fig leaf gradually evolved into a knee covering and became an axe-shaped decoration in front of the dress, which is probably familiar to the audience who often watch costume dramas. Since the formation of the clothing system of deep coat and petticoat, underwear has lost its momentum of development, because it has no chance to meet people at all, and it is covered under the coat with things like shin coat and belly hug, so many times, its owner chooses not to wear it.
Then there will be problems, a little carelessness, or sharp corners, and something will be exposed. There is a saying in the Book of Rites that "you should not be naked when you work, and you should not be naked in midsummer." Mencius wants to divorce his wife, because she is sitting in a basket when she is resting, and his eyes are full.
Open-backed pants appeared a long time ago. King Wuling of Zhao rode and shot in Khufu, and one of the contents was that the cavalry should wear crotch pants, otherwise there would be blood all over the horse after a round of riding and shooting training. However, it is much late to wear closed pants, which may be due to hygiene considerations, the convenience of personal drowning (if there is a closed pair of pants under layered clothes, it is convenient to tie back unbuttoned clothes one by one), and stubborn and unchangeable traditional habits. In the Han Dynasty, open-backed pants became the mainstream, known as "Ku" and "Kua", and the two strands were different. During the short period of Huo Guang's intervention, in order to control the emperor's desire, the ladies-in-waiting were ordered to put on pants.
The underwear with open-backed pants is the most personalized one. There is also a special underwear, calf nose. An image of a farmer working in a field appeared on the Han Dynasty stone relief in Yinan, Shandong Province. This kind of underwear worn outside is very popular with male manual workers. "Biography of Historical Records of Sima Xiangru" wrote that after eloping, he sold wine and washed dishes in handyman with a calf's nose, which made Lao Taishan Sun lose face.
The calf nasal fold is widely used and has a long history. In Water Margin, Li Kui, Yan Qing, Zhang Shun, etc. The most vulnerable part is all wrapped in a "water bottle", and I don't know what is the difference with the water cloth in Chaoshan. Moreover, in the Water Margin, men and women call you underwear, the poor boy wears water and oil, and the big lady wears oil. Interestingly, in the book, you can go out wearing a T-shirt, lace-ups, knee pads and Ma Xie, but you can't talk about it. Unfortunately, no one wears it like this now, but similar Japanese crotch cloth has soaked the soul of Yamato.
By the way, the word "underwear" appeared very late. In Miscellaneous Notes by Li Le in the Ming Dynasty, he recorded the story of Gong Liu, the son of Nantah, and mentioned that he had dealt with the extravagance and corruption of an aristocratic son. He saw a constantly chauffeured galloping horse, so he took it back to the hall and took off his clothes. "When he saw the red underwear, he flew into a rage and blamed." Whether this "underwear" refers to the pants worn under the petticoat, or whether it eventually developed into the necessary underpants in this animal year remains to be verified.
The situation in Europe is similar to that in China. For a long time, they kept the ancient style of legs and caught up with the Greek soul. This is much better than Adam's leaves. The real change came from the13rd century, when the baggy linen underwear appeared, which was the protective gear worn by knights under armor, and later invaded the women's wear world. At first, the crotch of underwear didn't open, which made men very unhappy, greatly increased the trouble of going to the toilet and tested the elasticity of bladder. It was not until the Renaissance that the problem was solved, and a folded part was added in front of the crotch. Later, it was improved into the form of open-backed pants and shading bags, and the clues of modern men's underwear could barely be seen.
This form is also very interesting. In order to highlight the true nature of men, King Henry VIII of England filled the shade bag with cloth, which made it swell up and caused unnecessary associations. This childish disease soon infected many people, so that special leather goods and other parts appeared to modify the poor male self-esteem. This trend didn't come to an end until16th century.
It is worth mentioning that women have not joined the ranks of improving underwear. They pay attention to all kinds of petticoats and skirts. Until the17th century, under these layers of fabrics, they were still used to the cold and flying. The reason may be fungal infection, crabs and crabs, as Yanet and Peter Phillips analyzed in the article History from the Bottom: The Rise of Women's Underwear and Women's Movement.
Czar Peter the Great visited Paris in 17 17 and rode through the cheering streets. He happened to see a beautiful girl lying in front of the horse, and the spring was at first. Peter wrote in his memoirs: "The door of heaven suddenly opened in front of me."
Men don't have to open the gates of hell, they are wrapped tightly. /kloc-in the 0/8th century, the popularity of Jenny loom and cotton picker made cotton underwear widely popular. People are used to buying cotton leggings and integrated underwear. The latter is covered with buttons from ankle to wrist. Because of its good shielding and warmth retention, it was very popular in Victorian Britain and the United States during the westward movement. Until the first two decades of the 20th century, it was still one of the main forms of men's underwear. Almost at the same time as the one-piece underwear, it is the crotch guard originally used for cycling. Just search and you will know what kind of Geiger gas it is.
Although Benjamin J Clark from New Jersey began to produce tight boxers as men's underwear in the early 20th century, this trend did not rise, and Clark soon went bankrupt, even though his products were almost the same as modern underwear.
The real frolicker appeared in 1935. June+10/October 65438 In September 65438, Arthur Kneibler of Cooper Company designed the first men's briefs. He completely abandoned his trouser legs and decorated the root of the man's thigh with overlapping Y-shaped flying wings, which realized the function of drawing a gun conveniently. It quickly became a fashion and appeared on Superman who appeared in the 1940s. Since then, Superman has lived his own life year after year, either rushing to old age or committing old age.
But upper-class men always insist on wearing underwear with trouser legs, which means "decent". In order to satisfy them, manufacturers began to sell buttonless shorts with elastic bands, which are real boxers. Scovil Manufacturing added snap buttons to them, which became the standard of many underwear. Locke, Zheng's old wolf, had a whim to run for president of the United States. After fully learning the lesson from Clinton, he decided to castrate himself and let a girl claim that she was sexually harassed. He can prove his innocence on the spot and prove that he is a gentleman in boxer shorts.
Until the 1960 s, men's underwear was still baggy, and sometimes it needed to be fixed with a tightness similar to that of garters. However, since the 1960s, men's underwear has become tighter and tighter. Boxing shorts, diagonal shorts and lower body protection have become the three mainstream of men's underwear. Coupled with the gradual popularization of swimwear, it seems that it is not a problem to always walk around in underwear. On the runway, there are even male models who only wear lower body insulation and are almost naked. Men are finally liberated by a small triangle cloth and become the aesthetic object of women (men).
In the 1980s, Calvin Klein put a trademark on the edge of his Boxerbriefs. He was the first person to do this, but he didn't expect even the old jockey to become an imitator. I don't know why everyone else in the Bronx is crazy about playing CD and rap, but where did this Hungarian immigrant get his inspiration? Perhaps this is the difference in concerns between Hungarians and Jamaicans. Hungarians want men to put on underwear, while Jamaicans just want to take them off.
But in any case, Klein has achieved great success, and those posters with only CK underwear male models have countless fans. "Some enthusiastic people smashed the bus shelters of dozens of bus stations in new york in order to steal posters; In order to see it when driving to work, Klein made a huge billboard for this underwear in Times Square.
More and more close-fitting tailoring, logo on the side, colorful elastic fabrics, tight and sexy mermaid line, a beautiful 90' s, and of course there are bumps that can be shown without mending cloth.