How *DID* they do that?

[Fnaar]

An occasional thread for things from the past that have no modern equivalent or explanation...

I'll start

1)
Pointy breasts from the 1950s:

 

[ColinJ]

Pointy breasts from the 1950s:

Eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes invented a special cantilevered bra for Jane Russell to wear in the movie The Outlaw which he was directing - it looks like they caught on!

 

[ColinJ]

The bras, that is ...

 

[Mr Phoebus]

I've heard of Twin Peaks, but that's ridiculous.

 

[Mozzy]

They took the image with her hanging upside down

Mozzy

 

[Beebo]

I'll see your pointy breasts and raise you Henry VIII's codpiece!

 

[Mozzy]

I'll see your pointy breasts and raise you Henry VIII's codpiece!

Oh booger; you made me spit my coffee out then. PML I really am

 

[Mugshot]

I'll see your pointy breasts and raise you Henry VIII's codpiece!

I defy you to raise anything wearing that thing!

 

[accountantpete]

My favourite lunch break

 

[threebikesmcginty]

 

[Red Light]

I'll see your pointy breasts and raise you Henry VIII's codpiece!

Now that's what you call a hard on !

 

[Norm]

Family friendly please, chaps.

 

[Melonfish]

wasn't it all the rage back in henry the 8ths day? codpieces that is. sign of masculinity so naturally being the king he had to have a HUGE codpiece.

did you know btw henry had a specialy fitted suit of armour made for EVERY competition he ever entered. in his youth he loved to fight and happily beat the living daylights out of all comers. the suits were so well made that no one but henry himself could wear them, the best ones didn't have ANY gaps in them and took ages to get on and off again.

not just an old fat bloke was our henry 8.

 

[ColinJ]

in his youth he loved to fight and happily beat the living daylights out of all comers.

Would you want to risk being known as 'the man who humiliated Henry VIII in combat'?