标题: Underwear of Men and Women in China, Past and Present [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 4-17-2016 18:32 标题: Underwear of Men and Women in China, Past and Present 本帖最后由 choi 于 4-18-2016 13:58 编辑
"Bosoms were often bound * * * Men wore thong-like loincloths, similar to sumo-wrestlers’ competition belts, but underpants for women were rare. * * *
"Under Mao’s rule, both sexes sported loose outfits. If women wore any underpinnings at all they were typically modelled on functional Soviet undergarments. During the anti-bourgeois fanaticism of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s a famous producer of female underwear, Gujin 上海古今内衣集团有限公司, started making woollen jumpers to survive.
My comment:
(a) The title is a wordplay on The Little Red Book, of Chairman Mao.
(b) underpinning (n): ""UNDERWEAR—usually used in plural" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/underpinning
(c) In China" "But breast size has since become an obsession: racks are now filled with technicolour, diamanté and heavily padded cleavage-boosters."
diamanté (n; from a French adjective) www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diamanté
(d) As a biologist, I doubt women anywhere did not or do not wear underwear during menstruation.