We do! There are a few brands but I like the brand Numi. I wear their crop tops under sweaters to keep them clean. They’re basically tee shirts with extra padding under the armpits.
Before perfume there were still ways to scent your clothes. In ancient Indian and Chinese books it is available. Similarly there are tribes in Africa who use the aromatic resin of the omuzumba shrub.
She did specifically say before DEODORANT which is not perfume at all. Perfume has nothing to do with underarms at all! And deodorant isn't about making your clothes smell nice! These same people also kept like, cedar in with their clothes and stuff
So cool! Love the history of scent. I’ve always underestimated its importance but lately I’ve been getting really into scents/perfumes and it’s fascinating! It all started with a vintage bottle of Gucci eau de parfum I found in my husband’s deceased father’s estate over in France and now I’m HOOKED
Ah, how much less BO there would be! I have a question (if you're willing to answer) I have 2 cashmere tops and 2 merino wool tops. Would gently hand washing them at home with a wool wash be comperable to getting them drycleaned? Assuming that I do everything properly as far as being gentle and drying them in the proper fashion.
@@abbynormal371 There are wool-specific detergents available, that are rinse-free, so you just soak the wool in the detergent and warm water, gently swish, and dry flat. I usually sandwich the sweater between two towels, roll it up and squeeze most of the water out, then dry it on a towel (you have to turn it). I come from generations of wool-wearing women and knitters and I don't think any of us have ever sent wool sweaters to the dry cleaners. I wash my wool sweaters about once every 6 months to a year.
@kiragarvie9644 Awesome, thanks for the info! I bought some Soak brand wool wash to use. Im excited to try it since its rinse free. I'm new to the world of wool but I looove wearing it. Whatever it takes to be able to be this cozy lol
I love all natural Garments...knitted Wool etc., and high Quality New Wool doesn't need to be washed after a few Days wearing, it doesn't "stinks"! After wearing I put it often outside to the Balcony, specially if I was in a Pub or a Club, to get rid of Cigarette Smell a.s.o.! It's after some hours totally "clean" again by it's own. The Norwegians and big Scottish- and Irish handknitted Pure Wool Pullovers doesn't need to be washed often - it's enough to put them a While outside into fresh clean Air, the best it is if the Weather is really cold, freezy, then this Air-clean works the Best !
Men and women have used scented talc since the 1700s under their arms. During the Victorian era you still used talc powder but there were also cologne waters available such as “4711” or “Virgin island water” then in the 1920s men were using after shaves and eau de toilet if you could afford it. It was indeed the 1930s that convinced women and men that they stank. Thus everyone started using deodorants.
People DO stink. As you go about your day, even the cleanest, most well-groomed person will smell badly in certain areas. It's literally just what happens as bacteria and sweat accumulate. I don't understand the wording so often these days with, "convinced people they stink". They DID. We DO.
My great grandmother was born in 1911. She died in 94. She never wore deodorant. She took a 'whore bath' daily and a real bath on Saturday nights, sometimes on Wednesday nights too. She used baby powder and a lavender scented powder on her underarms, under her breasts, etc. I used to have an empty container of her lavender powder, I lost it in a move. The last few years of her life it became hard to find. Her daughter would pick it up in Nashville. I wish I could remember the name to see if it was still made. She made her own under arm liners and always wore an apron to protect her clothes. I don't remember her ever smelling badly.
@@khaosssssss1727yup. The amount of law suits those companies - especially Johnson’s - have had is insane! you couldn’t pay me any amount of money to use that
Medieval people used alcohol or ash solutions. That second one might have been a bit tricky to get right because too much ash in water makes lye which burns. But in the correct quantities it apparently works as well as modern deodorant without antiperspirant. Even now if you notice you smell you can apply rubbing alcohol in a pinch. It was also apparently typical to use multiple applications throughout the day for people of the court. Outdoor laborers probably smelled at the end of their workday as they do even now. They also bathed a fair amount. The church would give them bath exemptions to prevent disease from spreading since they thought bad smells caused disease. Bathing was also often done with ash and a bowl of water. It worked pretty well according to people who have tried recreating the methods. It's generally harder than a modern shower but it gets the job done. And a swim in the river at the end of the day was allowed for people who got really nasty at work.
Yeah, modern and commercially available in 1888. There are many documents and “reports” if you can call it that that date back hundreds of years. Usually consisting of some aromatic that was used to coat the inner area under the shoulder. Technically deodorant has been around since the Roman Empire, just not in the modern form.
@@TheArtofFuguethe creator definitely came at the video from the perspective of Western European culture because she completely ignored what you’ve mentioned and the thousands of years of documented fragrance use in Arab and Asian cultures. Also what about Christian monasteries? Wouldn’t they have used incense and scented oil too?
As someone who sweats ridiculously more than the people around me I am taking NOTES, I’ll probably add something like this to my clothes now! I sweat so bad sometimes even w antiperspirant on- I’ll spare you all the details but it’s so damn inconvenient and definitely has ruined my fair share of clothing. I still might just go for Botox in the armpit someday but until then this is good lol
Have your hormones checked. For example an overactive thyroid makes you sweat more. On the other hand it can also be in your genes. My family is like that and we sweat all over (including the head). I hate hot weather because of it.
honestly just go for the botox. i have the same problem and overusing aggressive antiperspirants led me to develop severe irritation in my pits that turned into open sores and took like a month to heal during which i couldn't nuse ANYTHING so i had to just stink most of the time and paired with my hypersensitive sense of smell it was hell on earth. they're mostly healed now and i'm getting my botox next week.
People here saying that processed food makes your body stink... Idk, spices and garlic certainly do, but not processed food. You're overlooking the main reason: natural fabrics absorb smells much better than synthetic ones do. Synthetic materials stink 🙊👃💩😰
@@group555_ I mean, it kind of is. Polyester doesn't breathe, makes you sweat, and your clothes can't absorb or allow the sweat to dry, so it causes bacteria growth. Bacteria growth is the reason for stinky underarms. The types of bacteria you have depend on a lot of things, but hormones are a huge one. You're more likely to smell garlic and onions on someone's sweat than "processed food" considering "processed food" is a very amorphous term that encompasses ??? whatever people want to put in that category. 🤷
@catie5939 I was more referring to the notion that natural garments delete smells from existence. Polyester doesn't breathe but you can just wipe it off. Fibrous materials do anything but stop smells. They absorb it allright but that just means they will hold on to that sweat stink
As recently as the 1980s I recall products called "dress shields" which I think were stick-on liners. Not sure because I was a kid so never saw them up close but I think they used to be advertised.
Honestly as someone who sweats easily, I live in Australia and it's hot even in autumn tbh, these seem like a life saver for my WHITE school uniform shirt. Not even just because of sweat, but because deodorant really stains them!
As someone who lives in a tropical country, deodorants are wondrous. Please, use deodorants everyday. Please, please, please! But yes, that would be interesting to have to preserve our clothes, I agree
Also known as sweat pads and they are still used a lot in theatre in costumes that can't be washed. On this context they are also secured in with poopers/metal snaps for easy removal
Using snaps is so clever! Something like that would help me if I used these guards regularly -- I'd always know my guards were properly placed and it would make changing them out so much easier.
Scented body powders, eaux de toilettes, and even hair powders were de rigeur before stick deodorant. I use a 1908 recipe for perspiration powder as a deodorant and then go over it with a little rose or violet perfume - i smell like I've stepped straight out of the Edwardian era.
@@josefagomezschmeisser8356 it leaves no stain, and you still sweat, it just gets rid of the smell of the sweat and makes it less by absorbing it. If you are wearing breathable clothing, you will be dry enough that you will not notice. If you are wearing polyester, you may still become a bit damp.
Look at the active ingredients in the antiperspirant or deodorant you use and next time you buy one, try a different active ingredient or try a different form (roll-on vs gel etc). All of our bodies react differently to these things and maybe you've just not found the one for you yet.
She kinda wrong though because humans have used fragrances for thousands of years. It might not have been prevalent in Western Europeans and Anglo cultures but it certainly had been the norm in the Middle East and many Asian countries.
there’s actually research that suggests that nowadays we’re more sensitive to body odors than we were in the past, since we tend to mask odors which makes us not as used to them (hope that makes sense lol)
@@castaway2850years ago I did a 3 week backpacking trip on Outward Bound. When we came out of the backcountry we stopped at a Walmart for some supplies, and we all felt like we got punched in the nose by all the scents on people. Not just perfumes & colognes; we could smell shampoo, soap, hairspray, lotion, deodorant... EVERYTHING. It was a cacophony of smells. (Of course later on we all died laughing when we realized how bad we must have smelled to everyone else in the store that day.) But yeah. Real body smells vs products. We couldn't smell ourselves, but everyone else REEKED!!! 😂
@@castaway2850that makes a lot of sense. Back then everyone stank and everyone just got noseblind to it since they were kids, probably. And so long as it didn't get really bad, people wouldn't notice. Like if you live with cats, you don't realize your house smells like cats.
The Aztecs along with the Egyptians would mix and grind different herbs and flowers to make scent coverers and perfumes as they found most other people quite stinky back then
I miss mine. My mama had them in the 70s and 80s and MADE me wear them as a kid in the 90s and I HATED them. Now I miss them and am dying for the natural fabrics she made my clothes out of.
Before deodorant there were linen underclothes, preventing body oils from staining the nicer outer clothing layers. Linen is easier to wash and is nicer in summer than cotton. Also people still bathed regularly
We had stick on armpit liners during a production at my theater and they were a life saver for those of us in full nun costumes that involved three layers 😅
Lots of vintage clothes have these built in. SO much more sustainable that billions of plastic deodorant jars going to the seas and landfills each year, not to mention the chemicals and health. WE NEED TO BRING THESE BACK! SUPER-EASY to add hope today using Velcro, snaps or simply safety pins. JUST DO IT! People would also use talcum powder (sometimes perfumed) on sweaty areas, but make sure it doesnt have aluminum or harmful chemicals, or else just use baking soda, which is absorbent and deodorising. Cheers!
You can still find them, but they're hard to find. I bought a bunch when I made myself a silk dress that was sensitive to antiperspirant, deodorant, and sweat.
Patchouli oil was commonly used and small bags of potpourri; when I was younger, I had several vintage 40s garments from my grandma and great grandma, which had these underarm liners and I never actually knew what they were for. Thank you for explaining.
I have the idea for this in a binder full of inventions I used to come up with as a kid. I noticed that deodorant can sometimes leave stains on clothes so I thought we needed to have these. Up until now, I never knew they already existed. I could’ve lived the rest of my life without knowing my idea wasnt actually mine to begin with.
I recall seeing underarm pads in fancy dry clean only clothes that snapped on and off. I think fabrics used to stain. I’m not sure if the pads were for deodorant or anti-stain purposes. We lived in the tropics.
Wow my granny used to stitch these into her clothes to protect from stains. She had impeccable style and her clothes have lasted forever. Some of my favourite items belonged to her ❤
I watched all of ur shorts just now ... One thing I would suggest IF u don't mind is to place ur camera a bit down when showing ur full dress look ... It would really enhance ur already wonderful vintaged videos ... love them...🤩
Kleinert's made them and I had a couple pairs of them and they were attached to elastic straps also. I remember Dr. Oz showed thwm on his shows a few years ago.
When I hit puberty in about 1967, I had a gorgeous dark purple wooden dress. Wish my mom had kept it. I digress. She got me a set of underarm shields that had some kind of straps that held them in place. They did the trick!
I have experimented with various options . Some may find this yucky BUT coconut oil under the pits ( and a thin layer on all the “hot spots” 😂) work miraculously for odor control.
Under arm liners are still around. I use them in my clothing along with camisoles and other under garments to protect clothing and so you don’t have to wash them as much.
even with deodorant those underarm liners should be a thing, because it keeps clothes cleaner and protects them.
It was actually meant to protect the clothes from sweat stains; not a type of deodorant.
@@miriamhavard7621 yeah, but deodorants stain clothes as well and many deodorants don't prevent sweating in the first place.
Yeah I used to get in trouble with those gel deodorants that were popular in the 2000s, they stained terribly
Agreed
Agree
WHY DONT WE STILL HAVE THESE???????
bc now we have actual deodorant.
@@sams_not_hereyeah but people still sweat through clothes with deodorant on
Capitalism. The easier the clothes get worn off, the more we buy
We do! There are a few brands but I like the brand Numi. I wear their crop tops under sweaters to keep them clean. They’re basically tee shirts with extra padding under the armpits.
ohh thank you i will look into them
Before perfume there were still ways to scent your clothes. In ancient Indian and Chinese books it is available. Similarly there are tribes in Africa who use the aromatic resin of the omuzumba shrub.
That's still perfume just an old way of doing it and this short is about deodorant which is specifically different from perfume
She did specifically say before DEODORANT which is not perfume at all. Perfume has nothing to do with underarms at all! And deodorant isn't about making your clothes smell nice! These same people also kept like, cedar in with their clothes and stuff
In medieval times people would get rid of the sweat smell by smoking the over garments (especially the dyed ones to preserve the colour)
So cool! Love the history of scent. I’ve always underestimated its importance but lately I’ve been getting really into scents/perfumes and it’s fascinating! It all started with a vintage bottle of Gucci eau de parfum I found in my husband’s deceased father’s estate over in France and now I’m HOOKED
In middle East also
Former drycleaning worker here: the old way sounds much better 😅
Ah, how much less BO there would be!
I have a question (if you're willing to answer) I have 2 cashmere tops and 2 merino wool tops. Would gently hand washing them at home with a wool wash be comperable to getting them drycleaned? Assuming that I do everything properly as far as being gentle and drying them in the proper fashion.
@@abbynormal371 im wondering the same. I have a bunch of thrifted sweaters i have not washed.
@@abbynormal371 There are wool-specific detergents available, that are rinse-free, so you just soak the wool in the detergent and warm water, gently swish, and dry flat. I usually sandwich the sweater between two towels, roll it up and squeeze most of the water out, then dry it on a towel (you have to turn it). I come from generations of wool-wearing women and knitters and I don't think any of us have ever sent wool sweaters to the dry cleaners. I wash my wool sweaters about once every 6 months to a year.
@kiragarvie9644 Awesome, thanks for the info! I bought some Soak brand wool wash to use. Im excited to try it since its rinse free. I'm new to the world of wool but I looove wearing it. Whatever it takes to be able to be this cozy lol
I love all natural Garments...knitted Wool etc., and high Quality New Wool doesn't need to be washed after a few Days wearing, it doesn't "stinks"! After wearing I put it often outside to the Balcony, specially if I was in a Pub or a Club, to get rid of Cigarette Smell a.s.o.! It's after some hours totally "clean" again by it's own. The Norwegians and big Scottish- and Irish handknitted Pure Wool Pullovers doesn't need to be washed often - it's enough to put them a While outside into fresh clean Air, the best it is if the Weather is really cold, freezy, then this Air-clean works the Best !
Men and women have used scented talc since the 1700s under their arms. During the Victorian era you still used talc powder but there were also cologne waters available such as “4711” or “Virgin island water” then in the 1920s men were using after shaves and eau de toilet if you could afford it. It was indeed the 1930s that convinced women and men that they stank. Thus everyone started using deodorants.
If people didn’t already think that they stank, why the scented talc powder?
People DO stink. As you go about your day, even the cleanest, most well-groomed person will smell badly in certain areas. It's literally just what happens as bacteria and sweat accumulate. I don't understand the wording so often these days with, "convinced people they stink". They DID. We DO.
My great grandmother was born in 1911. She died in 94. She never wore deodorant. She took a 'whore bath' daily and a real bath on Saturday nights, sometimes on Wednesday nights too. She used baby powder and a lavender scented powder on her underarms, under her breasts, etc. I used to have an empty container of her lavender powder, I lost it in a move. The last few years of her life it became hard to find. Her daughter would pick it up in Nashville. I wish I could remember the name to see if it was still made. She made her own under arm liners and always wore an apron to protect her clothes. I don't remember her ever smelling badly.
Talcum powder is CARCINOGENIC
@@khaosssssss1727yup. The amount of law suits those companies - especially Johnson’s - have had is insane!
you couldn’t pay me any amount of money to use that
Before the companies trying to convince us that we stink, i was already convinced that we indeed stink no matter what decade we live in
Medieval people used alcohol or ash solutions. That second one might have been a bit tricky to get right because too much ash in water makes lye which burns. But in the correct quantities it apparently works as well as modern deodorant without antiperspirant. Even now if you notice you smell you can apply rubbing alcohol in a pinch. It was also apparently typical to use multiple applications throughout the day for people of the court. Outdoor laborers probably smelled at the end of their workday as they do even now. They also bathed a fair amount. The church would give them bath exemptions to prevent disease from spreading since they thought bad smells caused disease. Bathing was also often done with ash and a bowl of water. It worked pretty well according to people who have tried recreating the methods. It's generally harder than a modern shower but it gets the job done. And a swim in the river at the end of the day was allowed for people who got really nasty at work.
Deodorant, whilst popularised and made cheaper and more accessible in the forties, was actually invented in 1888. 🤔🤷
Yeah, modern and commercially available in 1888. There are many documents and “reports” if you can call it that that date back hundreds of years. Usually consisting of some aromatic that was used to coat the inner area under the shoulder. Technically deodorant has been around since the Roman Empire, just not in the modern form.
@@TheArtofFuguethe creator definitely came at the video from the perspective of Western European culture because she completely ignored what you’ve mentioned and the thousands of years of documented fragrance use in Arab and Asian cultures.
Also what about Christian monasteries? Wouldn’t they have used incense and scented oil too?
As someone who sweats ridiculously more than the people around me I am taking NOTES, I’ll probably add something like this to my clothes now! I sweat so bad sometimes even w antiperspirant on- I’ll spare you all the details but it’s so damn inconvenient and definitely has ruined my fair share of clothing. I still might just go for Botox in the armpit someday but until then this is good lol
If you can't sew/ need something in a pinch, pantyliners work great for this
They also make stick on ones
Have your hormones checked. For example an overactive thyroid makes you sweat more. On the other hand it can also be in your genes. My family is like that and we sweat all over (including the head). I hate hot weather because of it.
I didn't know that was a thing. I'll have to look into it bc I've gone through so much shout trying to get stains out
honestly just go for the botox. i have the same problem and overusing aggressive antiperspirants led me to develop severe irritation in my pits that turned into open sores and took like a month to heal during which i couldn't nuse ANYTHING so i had to just stink most of the time and paired with my hypersensitive sense of smell it was hell on earth. they're mostly healed now and i'm getting my botox next week.
People here saying that processed food makes your body stink... Idk, spices and garlic certainly do, but not processed food. You're overlooking the main reason: natural fabrics absorb smells much better than synthetic ones do. Synthetic materials stink 🙊👃💩😰
That's not how it works
@@group555_ I mean, it kind of is. Polyester doesn't breathe, makes you sweat, and your clothes can't absorb or allow the sweat to dry, so it causes bacteria growth.
Bacteria growth is the reason for stinky underarms. The types of bacteria you have depend on a lot of things, but hormones are a huge one.
You're more likely to smell garlic and onions on someone's sweat than "processed food" considering "processed food" is a very amorphous term that encompasses ??? whatever people want to put in that category. 🤷
@catie5939 I was more referring to the notion that natural garments delete smells from existence. Polyester doesn't breathe but you can just wipe it off. Fibrous materials do anything but stop smells. They absorb it allright but that just means they will hold on to that sweat stink
@@group555_ They don't delete smells from existence, but they prevent bacteria growth, like Catie has mentioned.
@@themeiafy natural fabrics are a great breeding ground for bacteria. They don't prevent it at all
Advertisers didn't "convince people that they were stinky." People actually WERE stinky.
As recently as the 1980s I recall products called "dress shields" which I think were stick-on liners. Not sure because I was a kid so never saw them up close but I think they used to be advertised.
Honestly as someone who sweats easily, I live in Australia and it's hot even in autumn tbh, these seem like a life saver for my WHITE school uniform shirt. Not even just because of sweat, but because deodorant really stains them!
I love how you say that advertising managed to convince people that we needed the product they had just come up with!!
You think people werent stinky?
As someone who lives in a tropical country, deodorants are wondrous. Please, use deodorants everyday. Please, please, please!
But yes, that would be interesting to have to preserve our clothes, I agree
"Had convinced most people that they were stinky" more like, made them realize it. Have you ever sat on crowded public transportation in summer?
Also known as sweat pads and they are still used a lot in theatre in costumes that can't be washed. On this context they are also secured in with poopers/metal snaps for easy removal
Using snaps is so clever! Something like that would help me if I used these guards regularly -- I'd always know my guards were properly placed and it would make changing them out so much easier.
Scented body powders, eaux de toilettes, and even hair powders were de rigeur before stick deodorant. I use a 1908 recipe for perspiration powder as a deodorant and then go over it with a little rose or violet perfume - i smell like I've stepped straight out of the Edwardian era.
And how that react to sweat? It makes it smell better or it also helps with the stains? I wanna know more
I use cornstarch @@josefagomezschmeisser8356
@@josefagomezschmeisser8356 it leaves no stain, and you still sweat, it just gets rid of the smell of the sweat and makes it less by absorbing it. If you are wearing breathable clothing, you will be dry enough that you will not notice. If you are wearing polyester, you may still become a bit damp.
Hey, would you mind sharing the recipe?😊
Recipe?
As a teenager I kind of need this, deodorant doesn’t do crap
Look at the active ingredients in the antiperspirant or deodorant you use and next time you buy one, try a different active ingredient or try a different form (roll-on vs gel etc). All of our bodies react differently to these things and maybe you've just not found the one for you yet.
My favorite thing about this channel is the fashion history lessons!
Magazines such as the Delineator and Women’s Hime Companion had ads for deodorant in the 1920s and 30s.
Mum was a popular brand dating back to 1888.
I Love Channels like yours because you’re answering questions I didn’t know I had and how cool is that honestly?
She kinda wrong though because humans have used fragrances for thousands of years. It might not have been prevalent in Western Europeans and Anglo cultures but it certainly had been the norm in the Middle East and many Asian countries.
"Had convinced most people were stinky"
Well that's not convincing we fuckin r lol
there’s actually research that suggests that nowadays we’re more sensitive to body odors than we were in the past, since we tend to mask odors which makes us not as used to them (hope that makes sense lol)
Our diets play a big role in our body odor as well
My immediate thought.
@@castaway2850years ago I did a 3 week backpacking trip on Outward Bound. When we came out of the backcountry we stopped at a Walmart for some supplies, and we all felt like we got punched in the nose by all the scents on people. Not just perfumes & colognes; we could smell shampoo, soap, hairspray, lotion, deodorant... EVERYTHING. It was a cacophony of smells.
(Of course later on we all died laughing when we realized how bad we must have smelled to everyone else in the store that day.)
But yeah. Real body smells vs products. We couldn't smell ourselves, but everyone else REEKED!!! 😂
@@castaway2850that makes a lot of sense. Back then everyone stank and everyone just got noseblind to it since they were kids, probably. And so long as it didn't get really bad, people wouldn't notice. Like if you live with cats, you don't realize your house smells like cats.
Ive started buying sticky ones for my true vintage pieces but I hopefully can find some reusable ones down the line
Just make some out of whatever fabric you like. It just looks like a piece of cotton. You could even use some fine towelling.
FAST FASHION COULD NEVER!!!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The Aztecs along with the Egyptians would mix and grind different herbs and flowers to make scent coverers and perfumes as they found most other people quite stinky back then
ALL THE OUTFITS ARE SO CUTE. 😭
Thank you ❤️
😂😂😂😂😂learn new stuff everyday never knew that ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Is that called a dress shield?
Yes
Yes.
I miss mine. My mama had them in the 70s and 80s and MADE me wear them as a kid in the 90s and I HATED them. Now I miss them and am dying for the natural fabrics she made my clothes out of.
I was wondering why vintage clothing had patches but this make SO much more sense now
We still use these in theatres. Some costumes dont have doubles or are sensitiv and can't be washed very often, so they often have liners instead 😊
wait this is so useful we need those back
YOU'RE SO STUNNING ❤❤❤
I have been dying to know how you found the bolero version.
Before deodorant there were linen underclothes, preventing body oils from staining the nicer outer clothing layers. Linen is easier to wash and is nicer in summer than cotton. Also people still bathed regularly
Yes! I always remove them😅
I'm liking those 40's vintage garments.
my hyperhidrosis ass needs these to make a comeback 💀
I still need those.. mom called them dress shields. Now i hear we use thin menstrual pads?
One of my prettiest dresses have this!
I seriously need these.
I LOVE THE ALWAYS SUNNY BACKGROUND MUSIC
We had stick on armpit liners during a production at my theater and they were a life saver for those of us in full nun costumes that involved three layers 😅
Oh I can vibe with these!! Maybe I’ll make some!
I need to make myself one of these!
That was such a great idea
Honestly i would still like these for some things that are hard to wash, even with deodorant
In the menswear case, they used a lot of layers os t-shirst for this under the shirts and even with full ones over the underwear
We still need these!
I need this for summer time, pit stains are so embarrassing and there isn’t shit I can really do about it most of the time.
This lady is pure class
Lots of vintage clothes have these built in. SO much more sustainable that billions of plastic deodorant jars going to the seas and landfills each year, not to mention the chemicals and health. WE NEED TO BRING THESE BACK! SUPER-EASY to add hope today using Velcro, snaps or simply safety pins. JUST DO IT! People would also use talcum powder (sometimes perfumed) on sweaty areas, but make sure it doesnt have aluminum or harmful chemicals, or else just use baking soda, which is absorbent and deodorising. Cheers!
aluminum is not harmful and people would still stink when sweaty
We need these back! ❤ they make better sense than using deodorant
Learned something new. Agree that they need to be brought back.
You can still find them, but they're hard to find. I bought a bunch when I made myself a silk dress that was sensitive to antiperspirant, deodorant, and sweat.
Some clothes still have those, mostly blazers, coats, and fancy stuff like that.
I sew those into my cosplays bc they are just way too expensive and so much work, I'm not gonba have them be ruined by sweat 😂
They had deodorant, cologne, basically everything we use now for thousands of years, they were more advanced than we think
Patchouli oil was commonly used and small bags of potpourri; when I was younger, I had several vintage 40s garments from my grandma and great grandma, which had these underarm liners and I never actually knew what they were for. Thank you for explaining.
Also cologne. Perfume was huge with the upper crust and even those who were middle class. It’s one of the first things Avon sold.
as someone who is literally allergic to most types of deodorant, i think i need one
WE NEED THOSE BACK.
I need these!!
I have the idea for this in a binder full of inventions I used to come up with as a kid. I noticed that deodorant can sometimes leave stains on clothes so I thought we needed to have these. Up until now, I never knew they already existed. I could’ve lived the rest of my life without knowing my idea wasnt actually mine to begin with.
I STILL NEED THOSE
I recall seeing underarm pads in fancy dry clean only clothes that snapped on and off. I think fabrics used to stain. I’m not sure if the pads were for deodorant or anti-stain purposes. We lived in the tropics.
I got an old spice ad after this XD
These should be brought back.
Wow my granny used to stitch these into her clothes to protect from stains. She had impeccable style and her clothes have lasted forever. Some of my favourite items belonged to her ❤
Amazing ❤️
I wear those now !
OMG THESE SHOULD BE A THING NOW TOO
"Dress shields" was what they were called.
My Grandmother told me about these!! :)
omg i need this lmao 😂
I believe a lot of stage costumes still use this👌🏼
I seriously need these ong my clothes are never smelly or dirty ITS JUST THE ARMPITS!!!!!
I watched all of ur shorts just now ... One thing I would suggest IF u don't mind is to place ur camera a bit down when showing ur full dress look ... It would really enhance ur already wonderful vintaged videos ... love them...🤩
I wore dress shields with my wedding dress and loved them. I used them when I did public speaking.
Wardrobe departments use panty liners - the adhesive is already there! Babe, they are perfection!
Always remember Gran saying how she used to puff scented talc under her arms
Oh my god I need those!
Kleinert's made them and I had a couple pairs of them and they were attached to elastic straps also. I remember Dr. Oz showed thwm on his shows a few years ago.
Women also powdered under their arms with perfumed talc. My grandma told me about powder boxes from back in the day.
I heard that perfume was invented to help cover body odor. Those pads probably helped with sweat stains also.
My grandma still uses them!!
In mexico mixtures of different plants and herbs have been used to make natural deodorants since ancient times
MTHEY STANKKKKK
People also wore more layers, which played a really big role. Keeps the smells in.
When I hit puberty in about 1967, I had a gorgeous dark purple wooden dress. Wish my mom had kept it. I digress. She got me a set of underarm shields that had some kind of straps that held them in place. They did the trick!
I still badly want somebody to make a pattern for these
I use disposable adhesive ones for expensive garments. Got them on Amazon.
(Oh, and I still use deodorant. I'm just super sweaty. Lol)
There was also powder, which absorbed moisture and inhibited bacterial growth.
I have experimented with various options . Some may find this yucky BUT coconut oil under the pits ( and a thin layer on all the “hot spots” 😂) work miraculously for odor control.
It is very normal in the theatre, in the clothes worn on stage. Some costumes are difficult to wash, so this is used. And we use deodorant, of course
I don't think advertisers needed much effort to convince people they stink
You can make a mint on selling used ones
I want these❤❤❤❤
as a girly w hyperhydrosis i would die for these
Also natural fibres don't start to stink super fast.
Under arm liners are still around. I use them in my clothing along with camisoles and other under garments to protect clothing and so you don’t have to wash them as much.
Yeah, I want some of those