Interesting that the root of the idiom is nautical, and suggests movement in the opposite direction, but I’m going to stick with the position that an idiom is as good as the number of people who understand it.
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I have no idea. I saw a guy at the weekend whose battypants were so saggy that he was wearing a pair of jogging bottoms underneath. It’s a bizarre way to dress. That said, my point was that underpants are an effective body covering and there are plenty of circumstances in which we don’t think twice about people wearing much less. As your statement implies, the transgression is cultural rather than hygienic.
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And if a Zen Buddhist turns up and asks them this question, and they throw him out, is that a Zen answer?
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If it wasn’t costume, they wouldn’t do it. They’re dressing up as Victorians, so it is practically the definition of costume. A case in point, (and sadly not a rhetorical shaggy dog story) today I woke up and decided to put on my baggy fishtail back cords with braces, a pair of correspondent shoes, white shirt, yellow foulard tie, green blazer, green fedora-style hat (a German hunter’s hat, but it’s close enough) and accidentally left the house dressed as a fucking gangster.
Now I’m sat in a cafe, dressed like fucking Bugsy Malone, and quite determined that I won’t do the same thing tomorrow - because I inadvertently strayed into the realm of costume due to my sartorial idiosyncracies combining unexpectedly.
It’s all fine until you add the hat, ironically, given the Chrismans’ experience, so maybe there was something to the request to remove that item.
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The steam press is pre-Victorian, in fact it’s Regency and was invented in what is now Germany before there was a Germany. The web offset press is Victorian.
The electrically powered printing press is Victorian - just. The first one appeared in the US in 1840, less than 2 years after Victoria became Queen.
So they could be using an electrically powered rotary web offset press using acid-etched illustrations from photographs and receiving information by telephone and telegraph without being anachronistic.
The roots of the modern world, including genetics, scientific medicine, computing, electrical communication, the gasoline and Diesel engines and turbine engines, almost all lie in the 19th century.
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Pics! We need pics!
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No pocket square?
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IT"S NOT LARP WHEN THEY DRESS THAT WAY EVERY DAY!!!1!111!!!
LARP NEEDS COSTUMES< NOT CLOTHES!
Hee-hee!
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Not today, as I don’t have one that works with that tie.
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One of the smart things the producers of Mad Men did, was to realize that if you have a story taking place in 1961, you don’t have everyone driving 1961 cars, or have books that were only published in 1961. You don’t fill an apartment with 1961 furniture.
When I was a kid, my mother had a clothes watcher and electric dryer. However, my grandmother still used a washtub and crank wringer, and hung her clothes on a line. Old technology tends to linger, especially in the pre-disposable product era.
Just some interesting observations.
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