Retro Little Guys' Healthknit Union Suits 

 

Union Suit Fans, I thought you'd get a kick out of this Healthknit hallmark packaging with little union suit wearing cartoon characters printed on it: police office, army man, fireman, and train conductor...circa 1950's and early 1960's when union suits were still widely worn by lots of men!  Outdoor workers needed Extra Warmth Underwear.....before global warming.  Anyone remember seeing or purchasing union suits in this package?!  Fun!

As many of you know, if you've been viewing my postings over the years, my grandmother bought me my first union suit when I was a boy... shopping at Sears. It was a "close out" sale of men's union suits for only $2.00 per suit. It didn't have these little cartoon dudes on the package that I got. But would have been quite the treasure to have seen these. That early unijon suit and all I've purchased since, with only two exceptions, have not been the waffle weave as the one pictured here. Never-the-less, I would have loved to have one like this if only for the package!  

My second union suit that I puchased myself and wore was a red Healthknit 100% cotton union suit like the one pictured here:  Standard Knitting Mills of Knoxville, Tennessee manufactured both of the union suits pictured here and most of the union suits that were bought and worn by most U.S. men and boys in the 20th Century.

  

The white thermal Union Suit packaging with tiny workers above was contributed by Union Suit Fan, Retro Jeff of Illinois