Why is being naked called wearing your 'birthday suit'?
Never understood that one.
46-50, F
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JoeXP · 56-60, M
Traditionally the person whose birthday it was had to strip naked for the birthday party.
butterflybaby75 · 46-50, F
@JoeXP Traditional for who? which culture are you referring to?
JoeXP · 56-60, M
@butterflybaby75 This is from Richardson’s eighteenth century novel,Pamela…
The master intends to go to London against next birth-day to attend on my Lady dressed in that which they call his birth-day suit and he sent for me, when nobody else was in the parlour with him: Pamela, said he, you are so neat and so nice in your own dress, (Alack-a-day, I didn't know I was!) that you must be a judge of ours. How look I in my birth-day suit. I am no judge, said I, and please your honour; but I think you look very fine; and indeed he did look fine, and in particular he sported a fine upstanding periwinkle that must indeed be the envy of all the ladies.
The master intends to go to London against next birth-day to attend on my Lady dressed in that which they call his birth-day suit and he sent for me, when nobody else was in the parlour with him: Pamela, said he, you are so neat and so nice in your own dress, (Alack-a-day, I didn't know I was!) that you must be a judge of ours. How look I in my birth-day suit. I am no judge, said I, and please your honour; but I think you look very fine; and indeed he did look fine, and in particular he sported a fine upstanding periwinkle that must indeed be the envy of all the ladies.
butterflybaby75 · 46-50, F
@JoeXP And that makes it a 'traditional' practise how exactly? 8-)
JoeXP · 56-60, M
@butterflybaby75 I’m just joking of course, though the passage from Pamela is genuine.