Symbol of discomfort: A short history of the Y-front

By DEAN KISSICK

This Christmas, Y-fronts are 80 years old – and it shows.

IT was a cold day on Jan 19, 1935 – actually, it was a blizzard – when Chicago department store Marshall Field & Co displayed the first-ever pair of Y-fronts in its window.

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