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...looking through one of those new shiny magazines and suddenly your gaze rests on yet another Calvin Klein ad, but this time it's for women's underwear, a fact which is nevertheless not immediately apparent since the woman in the photograph bears little clear resemblance to a woman. She is shaped like a woman from the waist up, but apparently has a male crouch. Look all the way through that magazine, however, and you won't find an ad for the name product made by Jockey, called "Jockeys for her." Jockey's ad, which was very quickly discontinued, showed...

Author: By Jonathan S. Sapers, | Title: Read This and Fall in Love | 4/26/1984 | See Source »

Success has brought some troubles for Wendy's. One company wanted to put out a line of male underwear with the slogan "Here's the buns, where's the beef?" Said Stone: "That was a no." Bootleggers are already peddling unauthorized beef byproducts. A T-shirt company sold items to J.C. Penney, and another firm tried to peddle unlicensed refrigerator magnets, before Wendy's forced them both to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prime Ribbing | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...only wanted waffles with peanut butter on top. The baby couldn't talk back: she didn't even know how to say dada. The two-year-old responded with no's, now's, and why not's and as usual she had forgotten to put on her underwear...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Part-Time Mother | 3/22/1984 | See Source »

...bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut and thus saved any individual officers from disciplinary action. The move was politically correct, but wrong. The officers who based troops in a poorly guarded, multi-story building in the middle of a war should have been hauled out in their underwear. Of course it is difficult to protect troops from determined terrorism--suicide attacks in particular--but that's their job: they made a mistake and should be held accountable...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Lost in the Fog | 2/25/1984 | See Source »

...sold nearly as fast as Cabbage Patch dolls in some locales. And adults, whose need for protective coloration on city streets might seem to be minimal, are snapping up everything from camouflage-colored pants and shirts to jackets, caps, belts, wallets, bandanas, jogging shorts and men's bikini underwear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Code Green, Tan and Brown | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

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