![]() This strange name for an item of clothing apparently came about because a man convicted of spousal abuse in 1947, James Hartford, Jr., was shown in photos wearing a rather dirty tank top. It’s a bit confusing because the Americans call what we would call a vest a tank top, or often a wife beater. They are designed to go under suits without the bulk of a jumper – a sort of warm, working class version of the waistcoat really. It was probably a bit nippy even with the trusty tank top. ![]() ![]() Mind you, that’s only sensible if they’re at the English beach. You know, the ones that feature in old black and white prints of “Dad asleep on the beach” with a striped windbreaker in the back ground, his hanky tied in four knots on his head, his shirtsleeves daringly rolled up, feet bare, but tank top and of course trousers still on. The sort that cardigan-wearers wear – I think David Hockney must have a few, and Gilbert and George look like seasoned wearers of Mens vintage tanktops to me. ![]() The other kind of Mens vintage tanktops are the 40s kind, the hand knitted Fair Isle garments that natty gentlemen of the older generation don beneath a suit. A lovely Fair Isle tank top.mens vintage tanktops ![]()
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