Family cowards - the phenomenon of culture of the Soviet period

Family panties ... Do they have anything in common with the scenti - loincloths of ancient Egyptians, bre - men's underpants of the medieval period and appeared in the XVIII century with the French court pants?

It turns out that until the end of the XIX century, no one knew anything about men's panties (family even more so). Only at the turn of the XIX and XX centuries, representatives of the nobility began to show themselves in places of rest, on beaches and resorts, in a vestment resembling this garment to some extent. At that time, the cowards served as bathing suits.

Year around 1920, in one of the fashionable English magazines appeared image of the first men's panties. After a while, they invented a funnel, or a fly. Most men do not like this wardrobe very much. But the invention of the music did not go unnoticed. The fly appeared first on the pants, and then on the top trousers.

Finally, the Soviet era is coming. In 1930, the whole country became a continuous stadium. In each newsreel show vigorous and energetic athletes. On the May Day parades, not only in Moscow before the government rostrum, but throughout the country, columns of young people and schoolchildren come out. They are all dressed in panties and T-shirts and gallantly march to the sound of a sports march.

As a result, panties and shirts become a symbol of real men, their popularity is growing. The younger generation chooses a sporty style of clothing. Men imitate the idols of sports, so the pants are becoming less popular and replaced with cowards. Advanced townspeople proudly began to enter the kitchen of communal apartments in such a sporting outfit, shocking their not very young neighbors.

Mass production of panties begins around the fifties, when physical education and sport are becoming a cult in the country. They were exceptionally black or dark blue articles having a length of half a meter and a width of the lower part of one leg of sixty-five centimeters.

Such clothes cost inexpensively, fit every member of the family, from the youngest son to the father of the family. It was well erased, quickly dried up, so all the boys throughout the summer ran around the yards only in one wide pantyhose, called the parachute.

They were not ashamed to sit at the dinner table with their family or sit in the yard with friends, fighting in table sports games, such as dominoes or checkers. Family pants have become universal home clothes.

Every self-respecting mother of the family knew how to sew clothes. Girls at work lessons were taught this even in junior classes. Together with aprons and skirts, in their textbook was a pattern of family panties. Traditionally, cheap cloth for dresses was bought several meters long. Then from it were sewn the renovation for all. Dressing gowns and sarafans are for girls and women, and family pants for men and boys.

Things sewn by hand were bright and mottled. They differed from the black and blue satin "seeds" bought in the store, and eventually became more preferable. Therefore, industrial production closer to the seventies began to produce family pants for men, not only from satin, but from other types of fabrics, and various colors and patterns.