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The address is Missouri History Museum, 5700 Lindell Boulevard, Saint Louis, MO 63112. Now get moving. There’s no time to waste.
Oh, you want details? Fine, fine. From the Show Me State:
The museum is planning a major exhibit on the evolution of women’s underwear and needs the public’s help to round out its collection of old-fashioned and modern unmentionables. The “Underneath It All” exhibit is slated to open July 1.
Curators are understandably picky about what they’ll take, and the museum’s underwear interests tend toward the antique and the exotic — like 19th century corsets and inflatable brassieres. But they also are looking for good examples of more everyday items of more recent vintage — like padded panties, 1980s shoulder pads and a Wonderbra or two.
The goal is to chart the course of American women, industry and consumer culture through the lens of lingerie, said Shannon Meyer, a senior curator who is organizing the exhibit.
Link -via Dave Barry | Photo: Flickr user williamnyk
Core77′s Design for Social Impact contest winner created underwear specifically for going through TSA security. For covering up your private parts during an X-ray, the set includes bras and boxers with the fourth amendment on them printed in metallic ink.
Police in Prague, Czech Republic, began receiving calls about thefts of women’s underwear from clotheslines, at about the same time a man called to report his pet kangaroo, Benji, had escaped. It all made sense when one caller said she had witnessed a kangaroo hopping off with her underwear. The marsupial was picked up shortly afterward.
Benji’s owner Petr Hlabovic, 35, said: “I’m very relieved to have him back. I’ve got no idea what he thought he was up to – he certainly didn’t pick up the habit from me.”
There is no mention of whether the unmentionables were returned to their rightful owners. Link -via Arbroath
A Chilean company called Monarch has developed a new type of underwear that, it claims, makes you cleaner:
It’s like this: copper is merged with polyamide and the result is a type of oil that’s then turned into a wire. Machines take these wires and weave them inside the undie fabric so that the processed metal stays in contact with the user’s skin. This, as you can imagine, provides the user with day-long germ-killing delicates.
So it will no longer be necessary to change your underpants every week. Hooray!
Link -via Gizmodo | Photo (unrelated) by Flickr user Michelle loves Severus used under Creative Commons license
It might not be the sexiest lingerie around, but it just might be the geekiest. Of course, this might just be dangerous for the ladies out there, as one of your breasts are likely to start attacking the other at any given time.
Link Via Geeks Are Sexy
Add this to yet another benefit of intoxication: it can save you from freezing to death!
A drunk man found lying on a frozen park bench in his underwear survived because of the amount of alcohol in his blood.
Aleksander Andrzej, 32, was spotted in the Warsaw park – where the temperature was -5C – and taken to hospital by police, reports Metro.
A breath test showed he had 1,024 micrograms per 100ml, nearly 30 times the legal limit for driving, which doctors say helped him live.
They believe alcohol in his blood acted like anti-freeze …
Link (Photo: Shutterstock)
Men, does "flat butt" syndrom bum you out? Well, there’s an uplifting news: now you can get off your duff and don a pair of padded underpants to give your booty more bounce. (What? Think you can do better? Let’s see you try in the comments)
The padded underpants in the spotlight are manufactured by a Canadian company appropriately dubbed BottomsUp, which operates under the motto: "Building a Better Bottom."
The company offers all kinds of shape-enhancing undergarments for both women and men but places a special emphasis on the male derriere, which, frankly, could use a little help.
Canadian company BottomsUp offers a line of padded underwear for men that gives the illusion of a rounder, fuller butt. BottomsUp owner Rick Mucha told AOL News that he’s been selling the line of padded boxer briefs for men for about 10 years.
The underwear have built-in pockets in the butt area designed to hold special BottomsUp butt pads, which come in three gradually expanding sizes: "Quarterback," "Halfback" and "Fullback."
BCB International sells underwear made to protect your genitals and femoral arteries from injury by explosive blasts. They’re made with a double layer of Kevlar and are fire resistant. The shorts have been tested on dummies with substantial success.
A new category of shaping garments proposes to do for the buttocks what the brassiere has done for the torso: “you can lift it, round it and shape it.”
“It’s part of the whole outfit,” says Ms. Benson, a 25-year-old assistant to a music manager. Wearing the Booty Pop brand of underwear, which contain egg-shaped foam pads to plump up the posterior, “I look better, I feel better, and as a result, I act better,” she says…
The backside has a complicated back story. Large behinds historically have been celebrated as sexy in Latin American and African cultures, even as they were viewed with suspicion further north.
The garments are not conceptually new; Frederick’s of Hollywood sold equivalent items fifty years ago. Skeptics of the recent trend argue that the padded garments are not practical except under heavy fabric such as denim. But late-night informercials claim that the enhancements replace expensive cosmetic surgery; the Booty Pop company expects to sell a million copies this year.
More information at the Wall Street Journal, which includes an explanatory video. Image: Sweet Apparel LLC
Emergency Underpants – $4.45
What’s that thing moms always say? Semper ubi sub ubi? Well, in any case – you can never be too careful, so keep this Emergency Underpants from the NeatoShop at hand at all time.
Link | More Gag Gifts and Pranks
Someone kept stealing underwear from clotheslines in Portswood, UK. The perpetrator, the victims discovered, was a cat who took the panties and brought them back to his owner as presents:
Eager to please his new owners, Peter and Birgitt Weismantel, 13-year-old Oscar had been bringing home presents to the family home in Portswood, a suburb of the southern coastal town of Southampton.
“He started bringing socks home a few months ago and then gardening gloves which we tracked to our neighbor,” his owner Peter Weismantel told the Southern Daily Echo newspaper.
“Then we had a situation in which he brought back young women’s underwear,” said Peter, 72.[...]
On average he commits 10 robberies a day.
“He brings them back as presents,” Birgitt told the Echo. “We can’t give him back now as he makes such an effort with all these gifts. He’s got a lovely personality and is a very loving cat.
Link | Photo by Flickr user eriwst, used under Creative Commons license
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 hesitate to mention this lest it inspire another one of Alex’s dress code edicts here at Neatorama’s corporate offices. But: Brief Jerky — underpants made from beef jerky. Wearing them, the seller says “will release their natural pheremones once your body heat and moisture kicks in!” I guess my co-workers will find out if soon enough if this is true.
Link via Geekologie
