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TIGHTS

                                             October 17, 2008

If you follow the story closely,
you get the feeling that the
men-in-tights motif was in the air.

  Gerard Jones emphasises the
  connections to physical culture
  magazines, as well as the                 MCFADDEN
  loving depiction of male bodies
  in the Tarzan comic strip.


  Early, unpublished versions of
  Superman existed using the
  men-in-tights motif, but then
  "The Phantom" strip arrived on
  the scene: clad in tights,          Falk cited the influence of
  with panties on the outside,        Robin Hood stage productions.
  as is now the heroic standard.

      Evidentally a case of
      independent convergence.




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