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From: wiebe@ut-ngp.UUCP (Anne Hill Wiebe)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Undershirts (definitive :-)
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Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 17:50:28 EST
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Actually, my original question/complaint concerned my irritation about
the actors wearing their own, non-STuniform undershirts under their ST
costumes in such manner that the edges of the undershirt were visible
 -- thus spoiling the illusion of 23rd century starship in favor of
20th century actors.  That point was diverted into a discussion of just
what undershirts the characters wore as part of their uniforms.  It was
obvious, though, that the black, long-sleeved undershirt worn by Spock
in Amok Time was not the same undershirt that annoyed me every time I
saw its outline on the back of Kirk, or McCoy, or Spock.
All I ever wanted was someone to say, yes, I saw that too, it annoyed
me too, they ought to have been more careful to conceal or not wear
their undershirts; yes, it spoiled the illusion.  I just saw
undershirt-as-anachronism. At least this deep-armhole style, what they
call a U-shirt, I think, seems ludicrously out of place in the ST
universe.
Oh, well, I guess it _didn't_ bother anyone else.