Check out this more detailed
article on the same subject from Cranked Magazine.
(If I were a cynical person, I would suspect Christopher Connelly of cribbing the basic form and much of the research of this article for his CNN article without attribution. Tsk, tsk, I would say. Luckily, I'm not a cynical person.)
PC05.27.08 - 1:30 am
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Here's that link again to the Cranked Mag
article, reposted due to ambiguity in the above post caused by an unclosed HTML tag. Yay!
PC05.27.08 - 1:34 am
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Wow. 7 pounds of underwear. I'm halfway tempted to weigh down my briefs with lead ballast and go for a ride so I can learn to empathize better.
I wonder if the same changes would have occurred if the automobile became popular before the bicycle.
vladster05.27.08 - 1:40 am
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Almost certainly, and almost certainly faster. After all, the automobile didn't require any physical exertion to speak of (and thus would not cause the driver to sweat), and could be operated in period clothing without assuming an unladylike (by Victorian standards) sitting position. To be sure, there still would have been resistance from men who couldn't stand to see the new device give women physical mobility and remove them from the home and hearth where they were thought to belong.
PC05.27.08 - 1:50 am
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It wasn't that the underwear was bulky, it was that it was made of metal.
marino05.27.08 - 8:37 am
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If I were a design snob, bored at work on a Monday, I would criticize the atrocious full justification of the text in that article, and deem it unreadable. Luckily, I'm not a design snob, and read it anyway.
canadienne05.27.08 - 11:37 am
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