Separate Sack Suspensory - Neatorama

From the March 1922 issue of Physical Culture, as presented by the ever amazing Modern Mechanix blog, let me tell my fellow men three words that will change their lives forever. Ready?

Separate Sack Suspensory:

You can do the hardest work or play without strain, chafing or pinching if you wear a Separate Sack Suspensory. The S.S.S. has no irritating leg straps, no oppressive band on the sack, no scratching metal slides. It is made just as nature intended.
With the S.S.S. you always have a clean suspensory every morning. Each outfit has two sacks, you can clip one fast to the supporting straps while the other sack is cleaned.

That's it. Tramp, er ... carry on.

I like the little hand that points to the image after it says "(Note illustration.)". Were people that ignorant of printed images back then or is it like a little mouse cursor pointing thing making you look over to the right?

How do I make the hand thing move?

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Hey, at least this one doesn't have the salutary radium inserts.

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...and it's from 1922, not 1992.

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Well, they didn't have tighty whiteys back then and I guess if your job was to haul stuff on your back up a hill all day, you might appreciate a little support for your boys or they'd be dragging on the ground.

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If one of the advertised features is "no scratching metal slides", it makes me wonder what the alternative product was.

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Craig - half a coconut and a strand of creeper. Getting the swallow to cooperate was always going to be tricky and many men didn't like having a bird mucking about down there.

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There have been times in my life when I could have made good use of those.

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Craig, I remember when bra straps had "scratching metal slides" to adjust the size. Believe me, plastic is much better!

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... all this for back in the day when wool pants were the standard, often made at home ... and only well to do gentlemen could afford (or bothered with)under garments. If you were a working man you were going to get whatever clothes you wore dirty...so (especially if you were single) you wore as few garments as possible so you had fewer to clean...and you wore them day after day. Any one ever try to break in a pair of lederhosen...while going commando?

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Hey, that looks like the same box-on the back-guy from the "learn ventriloquism" ads in the old comic book ads. I actually sent for one of those eons ago. Turned out to be a little metal whistle you hide in your mouth. I ended up swallowing it, of course.

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1922! Fixed - thanks MrPumpernickel

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It only holds the beans. Wouldn't the frank suffer chafing from this?

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My suggestion: slap the Neatorama robot logo on it and sell it in the Shop.

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Excellent idea, John! And it could be included in the next Mystery Sale.

"I got a pen and some sort of sling with a belt on it. any idea what it is?"

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How do they know what Nature intended?

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