special edition: vintage ads

I don't know what notes to self we can possibly make about these disturbing old ads from 1915 Harper's Magazine -- I just know I have a ton of them and they make me nervous.
This is an ad for B.V.D. men's underwear, or as this ad would have you believe, your ticket to an outdoor Wonkaland where knee high socks stay up without garters and you, an encyclopedia salesman from Jersey, is ferried across the river to a camp of exclusively "red-blooded, right-living men". No subversive foreigners or infidels here! Nope, just an entire island of Jimmy Stewart impersonators in cotton rompers.
Things will probably go great for awhile, until it's revealed what the sport of "tramping" really entails.