The 1949 edition. Frankly, I don't mind that things have changed. At least as far as the men's garb is concerned. #ddtb
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Television Taboos, 1949
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The 1949 edition. Frankly, I don't mind that things have changed. At least as far as the men's garb is concerned. #ddtb
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Television Taboos, 1949
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They didn't make mention of married couples not being able to sleep in the same bed. Or was this even before that?
Well, "I Love Lucy" was 1951-57, so it would have applied then.
My recollection is that the first network TV show to break that particular taboo was "Betwitched" (1964-72).
Don’t forget about belly buttons! I understand that Barbara Eden had to wear a plug to placate the censors in the 60s.
@Avo – Navel warfare!
Rewatching ST:TOS, I remain amazed by some of the costumes they managed to pull off. Or not pull off or fall out of. I think they spent a lot of their budget on double-sided tape.
Oh, and this from Stephen E. Whitfield’s The Making of Star Trek:
You can bare the top of the breast almost down to the nipple, just so the nipple doesn’t show. Underneath, however, is verboten. (Perhaps the censors are afraid moss grows there.)
I notice it’s men who are doing the looking–and censoring–women. This sounds awfully familiar.
Well, of course. Because the male writers, producers, directors, camerafolk, wouldn’t be likely to do anything indecent in presenting men, right?
Spirit glue. BTW, garment tape does not work for keeping me inside a performance bra that gapes. Mr. Theiss was an amazing costumer for TOS. He may have been dead or at least retired by the time TNG came around.
According to good ol’ Wikipedia, Theiss’ “final credit was as costume designer for Star Trek: The Next Generation, for which he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Costume Design for a Series for the episode The Big Goodbye.”
He apparently died in 1992, before the series finished its run.
Wikipedia also cites the ‘”Theiss Titillation Theory”—which claims that “the degree to which a costume is considered sexy is directly proportional to how accident-prone it appears to be”‘
@Avo – Yup!