Thursday, March 30, 2017

Eldridge Cleaver's Penis Pants

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998) was an American writer, political activist, marijuana dealer, crack addict, born-again Christian, Presidential candidate, prisoner, flowerpot maker, and prominent early leader of the Black Panthers.

And the inventor of  penis pants...



Oh, and he was a serial rapist, but more about that later.

His unique trousers were known as "The Cleavers," not to be mistaken for that fictional TV family on the 1960s "Leave it to Beaver"...



Unlike other pants on the market, The Cleavers were tailored to accommodate a man's sex organ.



Jet magazine.

The Cleavers were constructed with two types of eye-catching pouches: one was an oval shaped like a football player's jockey cup and the other featured a tubular shaped extension for the man's penis and an adjoining smaller pouch for his testicles.

"Heat has a decomposing impact on the sperm and traditional pants press the penis underneath the belly. My pants take it back out," Cleaver said.

He enthused that the pants would give men "a chance to assert their masculinity." Did we mention he was a rapist?

Partial transcription of the advertisement text is below the image...


Walking Tall ... Walking Proud ... Walking Softly but Carrying It Big

You'll Be Cock of the Walk with the NEW FALL COLLECTION from ELDRIDGE de PARIS
Life is just a chain of daisies when you slip into (careful, now) these revolutionary hot pants – with their ever-so-daring accent provacateur – just unveiled by famous radical designer Edridge Cleaver of Paris. They’re bad, they’re mad, they’re up front (but never out of sight)... and, of course, they’re for men only… REAL men… the three-fisted variety. ‘There’s no mistaking they are men’s pants,’ says M. Cleaver (seen here modeling a high-waisted two-tone pair of ‘Cleavers’ with side zipper and matching ‘appurtenance.’ ‘The pants that men wear now will be seen as girls’ pants after my models are sold. And don’t forget…heavy on the starch!
Eldridge Cleaver was introduced to the art of sewing while he was a prisoner in California. There, he was assigned to the clothing factory as a thread snipper. The idea to design his own pants came when he was exiled in Paris.

Cleaver viewed his pants as the ultimate in men's clothing and insisted that in five years they would be the sartorial norm. 

But wait! There's more!...




Photo: Jet magazine.

Although we here at Infomaniac are amused by the Cleaver crotch, we cannot gloss over the fact that Cleaver acknowledged committing acts of rape. He stated that he initially raped black women in the ghetto "for practice" and then embarked on the serial rape of white women. He described these crimes as politically inspired, motivated by a genuine conviction that the rape of white women was "an insurrectionary act".

The pants were never a great commercial success. Eldridge Cleaver later became a Republican and a Mormon. He died in 1998, age 62.

21 comments:

  1. I wonder if he was buried in Cleavers...

    And I hope they burned the rest of the remaining "collection".

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  2. Penis Pants? Isn't that just asking for someone to walk up and cut his raping dick off.

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    1. AYEM8Y: I’m sure they were lining up to get at him.

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  3. So, not just crimes against fashion, then? Jx

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    1. JON: He had a criminal record as long as his ... Cleavers, including “assault with intent to murder."

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  4. Vile.

    Although I do like those two-tone trousers - just without the horrid penis pouch.

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    1. MR. DeVICE: Considering starting your own fashion line?

      Mr. DeVice of Norfolk?

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  5. The man, his life, the ridiculous trousers, all could be funny, without the serial rapist part that all of a sudden opens a trap door into the nasty.
    As ayeM8y saied, Eldrige should have been cleavered.

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    1. MAGO: “should have been cleavered”… indeed!

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  6. People like that should be permanently castrated like they do with cats and dogs.

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    1. MITZI: I like where you’re going with this.

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    2. Well, ye, but they would still have those terrible thoughts and violent rages,so a lobotomy would "seal the deal"
      That said, he could have just revived the mediaeval codpiece-and-tights...

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  7. i seem to recall john lennon wearing
    pants that had a pouch for his putz.

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    1. NORMA: I’m not sure about John Lennon owning any type of penis pants but Yoko created trousers with the arse cut out of them.

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    1. NORMA: Eldridge de Paris… I just KNEW you’d love that!

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  9. Were the pants a "one size fits all?" I'd be happy to take individual measurements...

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    1. PRINNY: I understand that measuring inseams is your specialty.

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  10. he was the worst! a real pig.

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    1. SAVANNAH: His book should have been called, “Ass-Soul on Ice.”

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