No, I think it’s time to move on. We have by no means exhausted the subject of wardrobe malfunctions on bygone postcards, but there are other, more delicate, subjects we can address in this special space. (You have no idea how many new outhouse postcards have come into inventory.)
We have done enough for the whole concept of the accidental upskirt. (Nonetheless, this postcard has a number of interesting issues. Who’s speaking: him because he’s “looking up” or her, because the onlooker is “looking up for me”? How is her skirt being held down by that strap that doesn’t seem to reach to the back of the skirt while the paratrooper in the background is getting full attention from the breeze? And what kind of operation required someone to drop two WACs into an Allied airbase?)
And there is no time to go through ALL the variations on the Mouse upskirt gag. This might make a whole nother blog, since it would be interesting to compare the ingenuity of the early postcards, like this one, in finding something for the lady to jump up on, with the ingenuity of later postcards, finding a way to make the lady raise her skirt for fear of a mouse even when the skirt was, as dictated by fashion, pretty much too high for a mouse to reach anyhow.
We have already covered (or uncovered) every idea in the line of fallen underdrawers gags.
And does the “Skirt Too Short” gag really count as a wardrobe malfunction? The lady is just in a place where her outfit becomes awkward.
Is the act of simply leaning a bit too far forward a malfunction or merely an Ogle-of-Opportunity? (By not discussing this whole matter, I can avoid telling the story of my encounter in an arcade with a pair of yellow underpants that had bluebirds all over them. I shall save that for my autobiography …or TikTok.)
We have briefly mentioned hereintofore children with bare bottoms as a joke our ancestors felt was both cute and hilarious. I await the news that half the comic books I read as a kid are now illegal to send through the mails. (Did you know, by the way, that a comic book is not covered by the book rate at the post office? THAT’S a whole nother blog as well.)
Shirley, we have done enough, here and there, for the assorted wardrobe mistakes made by young female tourists at dude ranches. Until I find more in the next load of incoming postcards.
Besides, I am tired of scouring the collection for the very occasional wardrobe malfunction involving men, just to show wardrobes malfunctions are not limited to one side of the Battle of the Sexes. So we will not be discussing wardrobe malfunction postcards here today. Try to get along somehow, and keep an eye on your knicker elastic.
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