Cool Weather Greetings, Union Suit Fans!

Wishing you well and sure hope you had a great Thanksgiving, especially all my buddies in the northeast over in Buffalo, Watertown and upstate New York... getting all that snow. That is some "lake-effect" you all have to deal with. Yikes!

As we enter the holidays and colder union suit weather, I wanted to re-post one of my earliest submissions to Union Suit Fan. The posting below is from December 8, 2016, and is of a poster popular during World War II. It urged Americans to conserve energy by turning down the thermostats in their homes, offices, factories, or where ever they worked. And most important, to pull on their long, red flannel underwear. 

Thinking back, I don't know if my grandpa and four uncles, as farm boys in the 1940's, ever laid eyes on this poster. I do know they all wore union suits. Grandpa wore them year round. Folks now should do the same. I have been for a month or so and have managed to keep the thermostat down. In fact, I'm wearing a red union suit now as I post this. It's similar to the one featured on the poster. How about you? Keep 'em buttoned.... Chris

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World War II Poster of Long Red Underwear urging
U.S. Citizens to dress warmly and turn down the heat!

Rationing and Energy Conservation Office 

of  War Information 1943

The image shows long red underwear ("union suit") in the position of a man lounging, advocating everyone to wear their Long Johns for the war effort. 


This Entry Added March 7, 2017:

Richard of Traverse City, MI sent me this 1946 political cartoon drawn by John Collins. It is about the same era as the Long Underwear Poster above. It is titled "Uncle Sam's Union Suit."  Thanks, Richard.

Added December 22, 2016:

Ty of Odessa, Texas, a retired oil field worker and a Union Suit Fan, saw my recent post of button down long underwear on a World War II poster urging U.S. citizens to pull on their union suit underwear and turn down the heat. 

He remembered his copy of an old 1974 Petroleum Independent magazine featuring this very poster on its front cover. Ty said that he was so inspired after receiving this issue of the magazine, he immediately went out and purchased a couple of red Union Suits for himself to wear! He reports that he has been wearing them ever since. His two boys and a grandson wear them too. Thanks Ty for forwarding this photo of your magazine's cover.