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Posted 8/9/2013 6:42 PM (GMT 0)
anyone know how they came to be called that ?

90% of the guys in my wifes family wear them - year round - even to funerals - seriously !!

are they still called wife beaters if a woman wears one ?

Posted 8/9/2013 7:03 PM (GMT 0)
LOL, I think the term may have hatched from guys that wore nothing but those types of tank tops who just happen to beat on their wives but don't quote me on that....you'd probably be able to do a google search and get the correct answer lol.
Posted 8/9/2013 7:24 PM (GMT 0)
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wifebeater
Posted 8/9/2013 9:56 PM (GMT 0)
hmmm, I thought maybe al gore invented them as a prelude to inventing the internet -
Posted 8/9/2013 10:30 PM (GMT 0)
You and Somedude are hilarious with the OT stuff you come up with. :p
Posted 8/9/2013 10:38 PM (GMT 0)
Love it! Im wearing one right now! The only thing that gets beat in my house are the eggs tho.
Posted 8/9/2013 10:54 PM (GMT 0)
I call them that when I wear them, but only at home. Otherwise they're tank tops :)
Posted 8/10/2013 12:29 AM (GMT 0)
Lost so much muscle mass from 30 plus years of UC,don't where them.
I was never big but UC sure does not help.
Besides that wife might be able to beat on me. She weighs more than me now and does Zumba many times a week,

she is in better shape I might guess.  At one point, I guess I was in NCO school in the army, 1970 or so,could run for hours on end.  Ah, youth,to be 22 again.
What is left, my son calls old man muscles. But I am tuff, or perhaps stupid.
Old Mike

Post Edited (Old Mike) : 8/9/2013 7:01:49 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 8/10/2013 12:35 AM (GMT 0)
I hear ya big M !

I wore wb's when I was young - as I "matured" I progressed to cutting the sleeves off t-shirts - definitely a way more classy hillbilly/redneck look and less chance of nipple flash !
Posted 8/10/2013 3:26 AM (GMT 0)
Should we declare "wife beaters" the official UC shirt of choice?
Posted 8/10/2013 12:55 PM (GMT 0)
absolutely mad !

but I actually have to admit, things like this do kinda make me cringe a bit - they really aren't words any of us want to hear - don't mean to pee on the parade but ...............
Posted 8/10/2013 5:45 PM (GMT 0)
I think pb4 is right - I always think of A StreetCar Named Desire - isn't that what Marlon Brando wears when he yells STELLA? If not, he should!
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