'Don We Now Our Gay Apparel: Gay Men's Dress in the Twentieth Century (Dress, Body, Culture)

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Originally, the lyrics were written in a poem by Thomas Oliphant in 1862, before being covered by over 75 individual artists. For example, "Christmas carol" may be changed to "Yuletide carol" and "Christmas treasure" to "Yuletide treasure".

Roasting chestnuts on an open fire doesn't sound appetizing to me, but "heating cocoa in the microwave" just doesn't have the same verve. In any case, the episode is an enlightening illustration of the complex give-and-take of language marketing and language politics, not to mention the impact of internet pressure on everyone from Middle schoolers to Middle Eastern despots to greeting-card manufacturers. An alternative version of “Don we now our gay apparel” has been in circulation for some time: “Fill the mead-cup, drain the barrel” (John Hullah, The Song Book, 1884). The greetings and gift giant apologized Thursday for one of its intended-to-be-jolly creations: An ornament shaped like an ugly Christmas sweater, adorned with the words, “Don we now our FUN apparel. And the double stitching on the neckline and sleeves add more durability to what is sure to be a favorite!The joke that the company tried to explain away its attempt to take the “gay” out of Christmas by referring to a Gaelic original?

And if you're going to revamp Christmas carols, there are many lyrics other than those of "Deck the Halls" to start with. According to the Los Angeles Times, Hallmark initially responded to critics of this move by arguing that the words “gay apparel” were not necessarily authentic to begin with, but rather translations from a Gaelic original, so they could be replaced by other, synonymous words. They first appeared in 1862, in volume 2 of Welsh Melodies, a set of four volumes authored by John Thomas, including Welsh words by John Jones (Talhaiarn) and English words by Oliphant. Hegemonic masculinity is a whole subject in itself, entertainingly and learnedly discussed in Shaun Cole"s perfectly titled Don We Now Our Gay Apparel , which shows in fascinating detail how "clothing has been a primary method of identification for and of gay men. Machine wash: warm (max 40C or 105F); Non-chlorine: bleach as needed; Tumble dry: medium heat; Do not iron; Do not dryclean.Although some early sources state that Oliphant's words were a translation of Talhaiarn's Welsh original, [9] this is not the case in any strict or literal sense. This dates filming to at most five months before airing, as the Major League Baseball strike referenced by the script didn't start until mid-August 1994. Can y Coach faier - Ethnographic wax cylinders - World and traditional music | British Library - Sounds". Hegemonic masculinity is a whole subject in itself, entertainingly and learnedly discussed in Shaun Cole"s perfectly titled Don We Now Our Gay Apparel, which shows in fascinating detail how "clothing has been a primary method of identification for and of gay men. Perhaps with its sort-of-apology-explanation Hallmark has recovered from the bad publicity, although it’s not clear to me why anyone would want such an ornament for their tree (Snoopy or Commander Spock, yes, but a Christmas sweater without snowflakes or reindeer?

A Traverse City, Michigan elementary school music teacher made the wrong choice by going with the latter.Traditionally, this word was used to indicated that someone is cheery, merry, jolly, or light-hearted. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

The strike actually continued until some four months after the episode first aired, ending in April 1995 as the longest stoppage in MLB history. When you read the word “troll,” you can be forgiven for thinking about a mythical creature or someone who makes random unsolicited and/or controversial comments on the internet.By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. In the eighteenth century the tune spread widely, with Mozart allegedly using it in his 18th violin sonata (1778) [15] and later Haydn arranged it in under the Welsh title, "Nos galan" ( Hob.