The origin of butterfly underwear
Published time: 2005-6-4 13:07:37 Number of readers: 898
Butterfly underwear is not functional Yes, it is a symbolic thing. Strippers cater to men's sexual fantasies about the female body and perform female acting skills. The center point of the sexual fantasy is of course the female genitals, gradually progressing from the periphery, and finally entering the center point. Among those nerve-wracking techniques, the last thing to be removed was the small square of butterfly-shaped panties. In other words, the part hidden at the end is a device made for taking it away. It makes people feel that the origin of underwear has nothing else but this. If not, then the change from lantern underwear to today's style of underwear is too big.
In between there was the corset era, but the origins of corsets and underwear are two different things. Women who use corsets still wear underwear even if they use corsets. The purposes of corsets and underwear are different.
As far as Japan is concerned, it was after the war that bloomers were replaced by modern underwear. When and in what form did that sudden improvement in concept occur? It’s puzzling. However, the author believes that this change must be related to women's attachment to their genitals. If this is the case, the theory of the origin of underwear = butterfly underwear is almost valid. This coincides with the theory of the origin of housewives' housework. It is believed that the work done by housewives was originally done by maids, and later it was done by housewives, thus giving rise to housewives. This idea of ??order reversal has been supported historically, and both are equally There is value in reversing the order. Therefore, it is not that the underwear becomes smaller and smaller and becomes a small piece of butterfly-shaped underwear, but that the butterfly-shaped underwear originally existed. Later, the two concepts were shared, and short underwear became popular among ordinary women. This explanation I think is possible established.
The history of drawers
Judging from the history of underwear, split-crotch underwear appeared in the 18th century. They are similar to long bloomers.
The Wacoal Costume Culture Research Institute has a collection of drawers from the 18th to 19th centuries. It was only when I got the actual item in my hands for the first time that I realized that the crotch-style underwear with no seams (croth cloth) was completely "split-crotch underwear", and the joints of the strands were in a split state. Women's excrement is very troublesome. Whenever I see women wearing restrictive clothing and think about how they can endure those clothes, I feel really touched: If you think about it this way, split-piece drawers can solve the hygiene problem without taking them off. , considered to be very good underwear.
The trousers worn by Chinese children are also "split" trousers. If we go to developing countries, we will always pay attention to the way their children are raised. Children in warm areas have naked lower bodies. . Even in cold Nepal, children wear long-sleeved sweaters on their upper bodies, but their lower bodies are still naked. This is to prevent defecation and urine from flowing out at any time. The dirt floor at home is the toilet place, and you can defecate and urinate at will.
Diapers are a very troublesome item for children. Such an uncomfortable thing is placed on the buttocks. Not only that, in order to fix the unnatural thing, the child's feet are also turned into Dislocation of the splayed foot or hip joint is almost entirely caused by humans. Children who do not wear diapers will not have the problem of joint dislocation. From this point of view, diapers are a product of civilization after humans drove their excretion behavior out of residential spaces outside their homes. The same is true in Japan. For a long time, before settling in high-bed buildings, Japanese homes did not have specific toilet areas. Some of the very old traditional houses in India and Nepal do not have toilets. You can defecate anywhere on the dirt floor.
Diapers are still relatively young in human history, and are an experience of children in some parts of the planet. A child wearing a diaper is "forced to be unnatural". In a place like Nepal where the temperature is relatively warm and the temperature is moderate, it's okay to wear a sweater on top and keep it naked underneath. However, mainland China is relatively cold and leaving the lower body naked may cause a cold. Therefore Just let them wear open pants. With open pants, there is no need for diapers. Children can urinate as soon as they say they need to pee.
With open pants, children can take their time in toilet training. Children in European society are very strict about toilet training, mainly because the weather is cold and in order to adapt to the needs of the home and house, it will be very troublesome if the toilet training is not done early. Freudians believe that the ideas imposed by toilet training are a form of European repression. In contrast, for children who wear open pants, toilet training ends later, and they grow up more comfortably, which is very happy for children.
In Japan thirty or forty years ago, children hardly wore pants and were allowed to run around naked, and the same was true for girls. Drawers are basically the same as open pants. Even if you wear drawers, there is no reason to wear pants under the drawers, so the genital part is very ventilated.
The origin of underwear
Start from never wearing pants
Many studies discuss various possibilities of why humans wear clothing,
But when did humans start wearing underwear?
The ancestors of the great apes four million years ago should not have worn clothes,
Let alone Tong Nian who wore pants. .
According to Note 1 of the "Shijiyuan", clothing sewing had already begun in the Huangdi era in ancient history.
In 1933-1934, at the top of the Cave Man Site in Zhoukoudian, Fangshan County, southwest of Beijing ,
Many human bones were excavated, including a bone needle.
Primitive humans used this bone needle to sew bark or animal skins and other accessible primitive clothes.
It formed the prototype of the skirt, that is, "Xia Shang".
The history of underwear
In the Yellow Emperor's time, with the development of agriculture, plant fibers began to be used to spin threads and weave cloth.
That is, tops, The difference between lower garments. At that time, men and women did not wear underwear.
They only wore lower garments, like skirts.
In the Zhou Dynasty, the lower body of the hakama was called a shank, and the material was not made of silk.
Different from later hakama, it only had two pairs of thigh parts. The trouser leg does not reach the knee,
its function is to prevent cold, while the shank was lengthened to below the knee in the Han Dynasty, and was called "knee-covering".
In the Han Dynasty, "裈" appeared. It was a crotch-fitting shank that ran over the feet and tied at the waist.
The undergarments at that time were called "underwear."
The earliest trousers are the so-called crotchless trousers, that is, although there is a crotch, the crotch is not sewn together.
It is convenient for urination. Another advantage is that any man who is imprisoned in court will When you want to palm the buttocks,
you only need to wrap it around the upper body and expose the buttocks to perform the torture. If there is a crotch, it will not be so convenient to take off the pants in court.
It was not until Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty and Empress Shangguan that women wore crotch pants, which were called "poor pants".
The trousers of the Tang suit are called "crotch hakama". There is a slit in the crotch and a belt to keep it from opening.
It is convenient for private indulging and women can prevent rape.
However, the "trousers" recorded above cannot be equated with today's underwear, but there seem to be traces of them in the Song Dynasty.
It is said in "Laoxue'an Notes": "The inner belly (i.e. bellyband) is embroidered with soap, and the underpants are not made of silk, so they are considered obscene clothing."
It can be proved that women in the Song Dynasty also wore underwear in addition to the bellyband.
Evolution of Underwear
In fact, it can be inferred from historical records that trousers evolved from skirts.
To this day, men in Scotland in Europe still have the habit of wearing skirts. ,
Men and women in Hawaii in America love to wear grass skirts to dance.
They all show the convenience and functionality of skirts.
It is most in line with the early days. The development of pants and the evolutionary origins of underpants.
From this we can learn that the underwear worn by human beings came about because of its functionality and convenience.
It is a "full-coverage" style designed to cope with external situations. "Royal pants."
Do humans wear underwear just to "adapt to the environment"?
The choice of the type of underwear is closely related to their psychological tendencies, just like the obsession with clothing and preference.
When will it appear?
To sum up, the pre-Qin "lower garments" are not considered "trousers". Wearing inner trousers began in the Han Dynasty.
That is more than two thousand years ago.
Theoretical Explanation
Many theoretical explanations for the evolution of clothing developed by anthropologists and psychologists can be found to provide some clues to echo them.
Here is an explanation of the origin of underwear based on the following theories:
1. Protection theory:
This theory believes that clothing can protect humans from natural disasters, beasts or supernatural beings Violation of power.
Originally, people wore clothes not to isolate themselves from the weather, but to avoid insect invasion.
So humans would wear some thin strips of leaves or animal skins when they were moving. These things will also flap up and down
(like something similar to a fly swatter). And because of this mentality of protecting the body, humans have the motivation to wear and make clothes.
And then there is the distinction between tops and bottoms, which protects the most important and revered external organs of the human body-- Sexual organs.
2. Warmth preservation theory:
This theory is just like the discussion that clothing has the function of protecting the human body. It is believed that primitive humans in cold climate areas,
for To maintain body temperature, use tree bark and animal skins to apply to the body to achieve warmth. Originally designed to make it easier for women to use the toilet and sit astride, open-top pants evolved from skirt-like warm clothing and still retain the function of keeping the abdomen warm.
3. Decoration theory:
This theory believes that clothing is the same as other various appearance management tasks done to display, attract or express aesthetic concepts.
All can be used to decorate the human body. The human psychology of decorating the body is also reflected in the changing styles and patterns of today's butterfly underwear, which has become a decoration that makes the body more beautiful.
4. Alternative theory for the disappearance of puberty:
This is deduced from the theory of biological evolution. Women once showed off their fertility by discolored and swollen vaginas.
But then they lost this characteristic of puberty. Later, if a woman wanted to imitate puberty, she could always use clothing to achieve her wish.
It can be demonstrated from this that the clothing/underwear worn by humans has the implication of attracting sexual intercourse with the opposite sex.
Indeed, the female monkey’s lower body becomes swollen and discolored during puberty, which is similar to the girl wearing pink tight hot pants who blocks the street. There is a very strange similarity between them.
5. Modesty theory:
It is believed that people began to wear clothes to cover the private parts of the body, and this theory is derived from the Christian Bible.
The earliest humans (Adam and Eve) covered their bodies because of their shy instinct, which is a statement that morality depends on modesty.
We should realize that shyness is learned through the process of socialization, which can be observed in why people today continue to wear clothes. And to this day, there are still some naked men and women living without covering their genitals.
It can be seen that the standards of modesty also have cognitive differences due to different cultures or histories.
6. Immodesty or sexual attraction theory:
Psychologist Westermark (1921) realized that people not only cover their bodies,
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At the same time, the fact that you can attract other people’s attention by showing off your body. Therefore, some scholars have pointed out that the reason why people originally wore clothes
may be to attract the attention of others, rather than to cover their sexual organs. They don't even wear other clothes,
but only decorate the sexual organs with a covering to highlight the existence of the sexual organs.
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