[another Linda]

I have the perfect combination -- Tramp Stamp Barbie and Ken in a wife beater shirt. Throw in a couple of sheep for Eddie ...

ok, enuf. Boomer, save me!

[Boomer]

Originally Posted by dfn8tly

Boomer ---
Wherever did you find that ''test" photo? Not only is that the classic wife beater shirt it's the classic Brando shot from Streetcar that everyone will remember, even if it never happened!

Hi dfn8tly,

It surprised me, too. This morning I typed Brando and Streetcar into a Google search, along with pictures or posters or photos and that picture popped up all by itself.

But just now, when I saw your question, I did the same thing and I got this one. It says "wardrobe test" too, but with the tee-shirt and below you see the one that didn't make it.

It looks like lots of brains were somehow imprinted with the one that did not make it. Interesting. I am starting to wonder if the movie and the poster were different maybe. It was 1951, after all, and maybe the wife beater was too risqué to be on the sign in front of the movie theater. Or maybe it was just too risqué for any of it.

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3695941632/tt0044081


And Linda,

Would that I could save you. I cannot even save myself. Once you start that stream of consciousness thing, it is really hard to stop. Oh, Linda, be careful. It is a slippery, slippery slope, indeed.

Boomer

[another Linda]

Slippery but funny.

[Bettiboop]

In this one it looks like he got run over by that streetcar .....either that or he tried to beat the wife and she got the best of him.

[kittylecroix]

Bettiboop
You are a riot!!

[Avista]

Nonie, NEver heard of them in Chicago. First heard of them about a year ago in Alabama. Everyone laughed that I had not heard expression"WifeBeater" or Guina for that matter. Oh Well.

[cmj]

Originally Posted by Avista

Who has heard of a "Wife Beater Shirt"? Never ever heard of this until recently. Those I was with couldn't believe I had not heard of this.

I think the first time I heard this term was in the 50s! DA haircuts, rolled up jeans, ciggies in the rolled up sleeve... vs those guys who wore "wife beaters."

[chuckinca]

My German-American Grandfather wore those all the time (on the Chicago South side) - never heard them called wife beaters until this thread.

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