“U.S. scientists design smart underpants that could save lives“, says the headline on a June 9, 2010, Reuters report. (Thanks to investigator Randy Dotinga for bringing it to our attention.) Details: SAN DIEGO – A team of U.S. scientists has designed some new men’s briefs that may be comfortable, durable and even stylish but, unlike […]
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A new kind of underpants
Ronald Stuart Cutlip – a New York based Golf Course Architect and Real Estate Agent – has invented a new type of undergarment – and has recently received a US patent for it ( March 16th 2010 ). “An article of clothing including a pair of underwear for a male adult comprises a waistband, an […]
Dynamic Underclothing Microclimate
Sari and Berger helped erase the deficit in knowledge about the underclothing microclimate: “A New Dynamic Clothing Model. Part 2: Parameters of the Underclothing Microclimate,” Hayet Sari and Xavier Berger, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, vol. 39, no. 6, June 2000, pp. 684-92. (Thanks to Lisabeth Ng for bringing this to our attention.)
Nocturnal undergarments in ancient Rome – a follow up.
Extending and complimenting recent investigations into nocturnal Roman underwear comes another research article which touches, albeit briefly, on the same subject. In 2003, professor Kelly Olson at the Department of Classical Studies, University of Western Ontario, published ‘Roman Underwear Revisited’ (Classical World 96.2) And, according to professor Olson, another reading of the very same body […]