Putting to one side the fact that it's the most absurd and unmanly garment,

[Sir C]

this male playsuit effort also seems wildly impractical. How does one urinate? By stripping to waist? And naked for defecation, presumably?

And surely it will ride up, leading to male camel toe and playing havoc with one's genital and perineal areas?

No. Not for me, Clive.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/3575...king-the-mick/

One cannot imagine that it would be beyond the wit of man to fit the garment with some sort of opening at the front designed to allow egress to the pénis and enable micturation; perhaps this idea could be further rolled out to, you know, trousers?

[Burney]

One cannot imagine that it would be beyond the wit of man to fit the garment with some sort of opening at the front designed to allow egress to the pénis and enable micturation; perhaps this idea could be further rolled out to, you know, trousers?

Possibly, but I think that still misses the larger point of perineal chafing.

I think such garments are fine on young ladies, of course. They like a ludicrously impractical garment, the birds do.

[Sir C]

Possibly, but I think that still misses the larger point of perineal chafing.

I think such garments are fine on young ladies, of course. They like a ludicrously impractical garment, the birds do.

One cannot stand in the way of progress, b.

In the 17th century you'd have been dismissing trousers as no substitute for doublet and hose.

[Burney]

One cannot stand in the way of progress, b.

In the 17th century you'd have been dismissing trousers as no substitute for doublet and hose.

I still think that the advent of the trouser was a sad day for those of us with a well-turned calf imo.