The Guardian -
3 Dec 2014 20:20

This Christmas, Y-fronts are 80 years old - and it shows. Today, they symbolise discomfort and awkwardness, while boxer shorts are a celebration of freedom and sex appeal It was a cold day on 19 January 1935 - actually, it was a blizzard - when Chicago department store Marshall Field & Co displayed the first-ever pair of Y-fronts in its window. Soon afterwards management asked that they were taken down as they were inappropriate for such a frosty morning in the windy city, but before that could ...
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