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I don't think there was such a trope or, if there was, it was not under the name you've given. If there were, and it was cut, the redlink you've given would go to a page saying so and explaining why it was cut, like in the Other Wiki and TV Tropes redlinks in your post. That link just goes to a page saying we don't have it, period.
Edited by sgamer82You can always go to the launch pad and make the trope yourself.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallI must be going insane, because I was pretty sure I learned about that type of gag on TV Tropes. But, if it doesn't exist, I'll try and launch it, then.
...with name like that, I would like to guess that it's a porn trope and got cut on the ground of No Lewdness, No Prudishness. But I can't find it on Permanent Red Link Club, so it's unlikely.
Edited by Kuruni^ Looking it up, it's some sort of suit shirt thing
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallYes, it's completely innocent of any porn associations. A dickey is a loose shirt front (a starched piece of cloth worn on top of your shirt under a tuxedo jacket) which went out of fashion a long time ago. Apparently, the flapping dickey was an old comedy trope where the shirt front would come loose and flap in a comic way. Come to think of it, some clowns still use this trope, as part of their very exaggerated costumes.
It's possible that it has a different name, but if TV Tropes doesn't have it at all (which sounds more likely if it isn't even listed on pages for outdated tropes), then it sounds like it's worth taking to TLP.
Edit: Is it possible that it existed, but was lost in The Great Crash without being remade? That happened a decade ago, and you did say the site had it a long time ago. If it was something that was lost during the crash, then a Forgotten Trope sounds more likely to be, well, forgotten during recovery than something more familiar to modern audiences.
Edited by GastonRabbit I got a rock for Halloween.We do have Classy Cravat, for what it's worth. If not the same idea it's probably similar to.
It's basically the equivalent of a backless waistcoat (but you know, as a shirt) crossed with a bib, since sometimes they were made out of waterproof material (well, as waterproof as you could get in the 1800s). You wore a dickie if you couldn't afford to launder your actual shirts (this was before household bleach), much less buy a new one, but as time went on, industrial processes improved and shirts became cheaper, so wearing a dickie became a sign of being outdated as well as poor. So the joke here is that not only were you wearing a dickie, you were wearing a bad dickie badly since it was curling up and not even covering up what it was supposed to cover.
The joke was kept alive well into the 20th Century by a combination of circus clowns and modern stand-up comedians who learned it from their Borscht Belt predecessors, who in turn were directly mentored by Vaudeville performers who used it as a stock bit. Pretty much a Forgotten Trope now, if this thread is any indication.
Could be worth a launch, though it might be slow to pick up traction.
Edited by UnsungWait, is the thing the dad was struggling with in the beginning of Peter Pan a dickie?
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.I say we take this to the launch pad. Lets see what happens.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallThat's what Eddy's parents got him for Christmas in "Jingle Jingle Jangle" too, wasn't it?
Jawbreakers on sale for 99¢That's fair. You're right, I think they were worn with formalwear for longer than they were with other clothes because of the desire for that perfectly starched look. I should've mentioned something about the starch, since I think that's the whole reason it sticks up, so it is a big part of the joke. I believe that's even still around occasionally, even making a comeback in some circles.
I also sort of made it sound like only poor people did this, which isn't true, but people in general didn't change clothes as often in that period because doing laundry took all day (sometimes all of several days for a family), so dickies were more common, including less formal dickies for people who had to say, work in an office, like a banker or mortician, the growing middle class, or for servants or wait-staff.
Edited by Unsung^^^^ - Did you just check for the trope itself? Try any indexes it should've been on?
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Whatever happened to the "Flapping Dickie" trope the site had a long time ago? I don't know if tropes get removed due to administrative decisions, but, I can't find it mentioned, not even as a Dead Horse Trope or Forgotten Trope. The Other Wiki has an article on dickies that mentions enough examples, so why doesn't TV Tropes?
Edited by Pisthetairos