Literary Quote of the Day

"The women oohed and ahed and the men sat slack-jawed as I showed my slides of today's lingerie, from frumpy to latex to thongs to G-strings to fetish undergarments to nasty va-va-voom designs.

'What about men?' a shriveled woman with liver-spotted skin shouted. 'Got something to turn on us ladies?'

'I believe I do,' I said, cutting to a photograph of a bare chested Clark Gable with Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night. 'When Gable took his shirt off in this scene and he was bare-chested, men across America decided, 'Well, if Clark Gable doesn't have to wear an undershirt, neither do I!' Sales of men's undershirts dropped seventy-five percent after that. Of course, later, when James Dean was photographed wearing a cotton undershirt in Rebel Without a Cause, sales zoomed back up. It's really quite astounding how underwear fashion in the movies impacts what people wear in real life.'"


~ Karen Quinn, Holly Would Dream