Shorts Circuit

April, 1982

Back in the Thirties, Clark Gable took off his shirt to reveal bare skin in the film It Happened One Night and suddenly every guy in the country went under-shirtless overnight. Now we have female reporters in the locker room and--guess what?--the men's underwear market has responded with drawers full of styles that are so good-looking we may all become male strippers. Further-more, just as today's trousers range from skintight jeans to double-pleated slacks, so underwear is broadening out with l...