Sears and Penney's Catalogs and the underwear section.

[Maddy McCall]

[Digit]

1. I seem to remember a JC Penney catalogue where something was...

peeking out....

Hint...it was boxer shorts and was a big hit with us high school women.
...way back when I WAS in high school...
:9

[Maddy McCall]

2. I remember that!

Also, you could see nipples through the see-through bras. :blush:

[Digit]

15. PERV! LOL

Damn, wish I still had that edition. It would be fun on ebay!

[njdemocrat106]

25. Actually, I think it was a Sears catalog circa 1975

I remember seeing something like this on snopes.com.

Edit: OK, I found a link regarding this:

http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/sears.asp

[Digit]

34. HA! I remembered the penis, but not the place!

That was a nice blast from the past seeing that.
I could hardly believe my eyes that I should see it on the web!

I will have to bookmark that one!

[Maddy McCall]

37. That was my excuse in the eighties.

Amoral slut that I am. :D

[Digit]

41. OMG! Old lady that I am, I have seen a dong or two in my day as well....

My lips are sealed...NOW...

But I am laughing my ass off right now listening to that song!

[Stephanie]

46. I remember that!

But I think it was briefs!

[Qibing Zero]

3. I was not normal

I never really understood the whole underwear thing. Perhaps if I were in the 50s or something and was so repressed I didn't know what the nude bodies looked like. :shrug:

My imagination was much better anyhow. ;)

[Maddy McCall]

4. So I guess asking you about National Geographic is pointless.

:-)

[Digit]

43. It was the fact in this instance that Sears overlooked something...

That was what was funny...

[Gabi Hayes]

5. hahahaaa! that was very logical! I get it!

[Gabi Hayes]

7. then, again, this could be the reason

[Skittles]

6. well I think perhaps men's undies may be a bit more attractive now

seems like back then it was either tightie-whities up to the waist or big-ass boxers :(

[Gabi Hayes]

9. Chicks dig me.....

because I rarely wear underwear and when I do it's usually something unusual.

[Skittles]

16. OK Gabi I have to ask this

do chicks actually TELL you this LOL :thumbsup:

[Gabi Hayes]

22. do I have to be honest about this?

If I do, I'd have to ask you to watch a certain Bill Murray movie.

[Skittles]

27. well, I like Bill Murray

:D

In all seriousness though, if a man is sporting undies, I think the value of a really good-fitting, nice-looking pair of skivvies cannot be underestimated. YES INDEED !!! :D

[Maddy McCall]

18. Do you have the chicken-head G-string from Spencer's?

[Skittles]

28. LOL

*choke* JEEZ it's not like the Subject did not WARN me :7

[Hardrada]

14. Women's undies are better now also.

Old catalogs had stuff like girdles and other awkward to deal with items now no longer seen.

[Skittles]

17. oh yes

I remember the pointy, unnatural looking bra structures - WTF?

[Hardrada]

21. We men wore long itchy underwear in winter. A turn-off for sure.

I have been liberated from them for decades. But to compensate I wish they had some kind of leg warmers for chaps like me.

[babylonsister]

8. I'm one of 3 girls;

we'd take turns with catalogues. One page was mine, one page was some other sister's. :eyes: We'd pick our favorite fashions and models. I do remember those catalogues, and not even the underwear!
Nice clothes, bodies, etc., were different that what we were used to!

[Gabi Hayes]

10. So am I! can you guess which one?

coincidence....or not?

[babylonsister]

19. Gabi,

I don't even know, it doesn't matter, but I'm LMFAO!
When ya put it like that, what a choice!

[Gabi Hayes]

26. real knee slapper, hey?

[Maddy McCall]

12. Oh yes. We shopped for husbands in them.

As kids...we'd circle the man we wanted. :D

[babylonsister]

20. Yes, I recall that also! This must have been our

entertainment, because there was not a lot of TV, no internet, whatever did we do?
I actually had a nice kidhood!

[Maddy McCall]

36. So did I. We used our creative minds for fun...

And we played outside 90% of the time.

[FM Arouet666]

11. You left one out.

When I was a kid, I was a sexual deviant. Wearing a soiled panty on my head, I would look through my mother's underwear drawer, comparing the silken jewels to the pictures in the Sears and Penny's catalogs. But today I am a normal republican. :evilgrin:

[Maddy McCall]

LMFAO!!!

:rofl: I'm adding that one.

[babylonsister]

23. Too much! I'm happy your

mom had silken jewels! And may your sexual deviancy be dumbed down by your republicanism. Or not. I am at a loss....

[cynatnite]

13. It was National Geographic magazines for me

True story, folks. Saw lots of nekid bodies in that magazine. Guess that makes me some kind of deviant. :smoke:

[Skittles]

30. see, that mag made me sport a bra for life

I was traumatized by some of the breasts featured :o

[cynatnite]

32. I remember thinking...don't let it be me...please!

:rofl:

[Maddy McCall]

35. I kid you not. My mom, in the birds and bees convo, pulled out a...

Nat Geo and showed me breasts, and explained to me that I had to wear a bra or I'd look like that.

:D

[madrchsod]

42. so was i

[JohnnyCougar]

39. Haha! The trusty old "Tribes of the Pacific" edition!

Those had to be every boy's favorite!

[tridim]

24. Slightly off topic, but if you have a late 70's catalog, take a look..

You'll laugh for hours. Start in the slacks department. :D

[Skittles]

29. question

would the EARLY seventies be any better?

I kid you not, I remember looking around at age 14 in 1971 thinking THESE PEOPLE LOOK RIDICULOUS and their grandchildren will laught their asses off at the pictures

[tridim]

44. I've only seen a 1977 issue of the Sears catalog

Can't comment on the early 70's, but I'm willing to bet it wasn't as bad as '77. It was leisure suit heaven in 77!

[Skittles]

45. gawd, don't remind me

I've never been a fad person and it just appalls me what has appealed to people throughout my years :o

[LynnTheDem]

31. ROTFLMAO!!!

LOVE the last choice. :D :D :D :rofl:

[dennis00]

33. now I know

Why the S and R catalog always ended up in the outhouse.

It was not too long ago
I went tripping through the snow
Out to that house behind my old hound dog
Where I'd sit me down to rest
Like a snowbird on her nest
And read the Sears And Roebuck catalog.

Ode To The Little Brown Shack Out Back
Billy Edd Wheeler.
One of my very favorite people on earth. Google Billy Edd Wheeler. He is also responsible for Johnny Cash's The Reverend Mr. Black.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

38. When I was a kid

I was already a sexual deviant but the underwear section did not figure into my deviation so I ignored it.





:evilgrin:

[madrchsod]

40. actually my neighbor had

"nudist magazines" so we would seek a peak when he was out of the room...hey it was the mid 50`s.....

[sundog]

47. i love you maddy mccall

:rofl:

[Maddy McCall]

48. I love you, too, Sundog.

:loveya: ;-)

[donsu]

49. as a kid I invented a game with my mother's old catalogs

we played store. my brother and I would cut out articles in the catalog for our 'store'.

underwear didn't strike us as anything but something to sell in our store. cutting out underwear, sex never entered our minds.

but that was way back when sexy was a word seldom used. like, nobody said 'oh sexy' when enthusing over something/anything.