Is it just me or is Adam dropping hints that its time for his friends to stage an intervention re his recent eating habits? I just hope that its not kummerspeck
My grandfather used to say (and wear) “Suspenders AND a belt”. I recall receiving pants (as a small boy) that had buttons on the inside for suspenders. I was mighty puzzled by them.
I have a few suits that I’ve put suspender buttons in, so they get hidden by the jacket. Im going to go on the record here: suspenders = comfortable. It’s the closest you can get to not wearing pants while wearing a tie without being a Chippendale’s dancer.
I am a fat boy & LOVE suspenders. If my pants stay in the Northern Hemisphere IE: above my waist, they are fine but without suspenders, if they slide down into the Southern Hemisphere, they immediately fall to my ankles. This makes women awestruck, and men jealous, so I try to keep them up…
Suspender were invented when we switched from wool to cotton, especially for underwear. Wool is so grabby it ripped the hair off you legs. Traditional woolen trousers, socks and etc don’t slide off under gravity you have to peel them off. When cotton come along, it was slick which made it more comfortable but also more prone to fall off. Even more so if you were rich enough to afford silk underwear. For a time, suspenders, with their expensive then high-tech elastics where markers of wealth. That is why Tuxedos have them. They date form the same era.
The last panel does actually hit the nail on the head. Back in the day, there were far fewer off the rack sizes. Usually there were three jokingly labeled to-short, to-wide and to-long. Suspenders allowed a person to wear a much wider variety of sizes than a belt.
The ubiquity of overalls in poor regions is from a similar effect. Buy a growing kid a pair of overalls and he can wear them for two years or so when they would grow through four pairs of pants or more in the same period. Learned that last from my grandparents.
I keep suggesting them to my husband so he will stop walking on the pants legs!
Outside the US they’re called braces. Suspenders are what you’d call a garter belt.
and we put braces on our teeth. It’s all very confusing.
Someone would pull the elastic of the braces, let it go & they’d slap you on the gums. “Ouch!!!”
Larry King (former crypt-keeper for CNN) calls them braces.
So, Adam, this is the pant week?
More like Steve Urkel week.
“like a loose bumper to a car.” Wonderful image – great comic!
Is it just me or is Adam dropping hints that its time for his friends to stage an intervention re his recent eating habits? I just hope that its not kummerspeck
I remember wearing those things as a kid because I was too skinny for my pants.
last panel reminds me of clown pants or baggin saggin barry (for the 90s kids)…
My grandfather used to say (and wear) “Suspenders AND a belt”. I recall receiving pants (as a small boy) that had buttons on the inside for suspenders. I was mighty puzzled by them.
I have a few suits that I’ve put suspender buttons in, so they get hidden by the jacket. Im going to go on the record here: suspenders = comfortable. It’s the closest you can get to not wearing pants while wearing a tie without being a Chippendale’s dancer.
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“Weird and Misshapen” – sounds like my kind of menswear!
Or womenswear. Unfortunately suspenders / braces do not go well with female anatomy.
I agree with both of you.
What about wearing those Y-shaped ones backwards? Then again, it seems to be some sort of faux pas to do so…
Third panel seems to contradict Monday’s comic. Imagine buying a pair just as small as your pants that no longer fit you.
I am a fat boy & LOVE suspenders. If my pants stay in the Northern Hemisphere IE: above my waist, they are fine but without suspenders, if they slide down into the Southern Hemisphere, they immediately fall to my ankles. This makes women awestruck, and men jealous, so I try to keep them up…
Suspender were invented when we switched from wool to cotton, especially for underwear. Wool is so grabby it ripped the hair off you legs. Traditional woolen trousers, socks and etc don’t slide off under gravity you have to peel them off. When cotton come along, it was slick which made it more comfortable but also more prone to fall off. Even more so if you were rich enough to afford silk underwear. For a time, suspenders, with their expensive then high-tech elastics where markers of wealth. That is why Tuxedos have them. They date form the same era.
The last panel does actually hit the nail on the head. Back in the day, there were far fewer off the rack sizes. Usually there were three jokingly labeled to-short, to-wide and to-long. Suspenders allowed a person to wear a much wider variety of sizes than a belt.
The ubiquity of overalls in poor regions is from a similar effect. Buy a growing kid a pair of overalls and he can wear them for two years or so when they would grow through four pairs of pants or more in the same period. Learned that last from my grandparents.