Wearing clothes with pineapples- swinger message?

[Anonymous]

A friend told me the meaning of an upside down pineapple, means you are a swinger. Is this true? I have a cute summer dress with pineapples (upright) on it, now I may not wear it. Am I being ridiculous?

[Anonymous]

Yes

[Anonymous]

Yes it’s true and if they are right side up you are fine.

[Anonymous]

I have only heard of this on DCUM. And after I bought a cheap Hawaiian shirt with pineapples on it for a work Hawaiian shirt day.

If you don't hang out with DCUM people, you shouldn't have a problem. LOL.

[Anonymous]

It is true. I would donate that dress.

[Anonymous]

1. Are there enough swingers in your community that being mistaken for one could truly be problematic?

2. Even if someone misinterpreted your dress somehow, is there any reason you couldn't just say "oh no thank you, I just liked the pattern"?

Btw I think it's dumb when subcultures decided to appropriate common symbols as their own. Pineapples have long had a social meaning of warmth and home -- it used to be a common gift at a housewarming party and pineapple imagery in door decor was a way of conveying welcome to guests. If swingers want upside pineapples to mean something different, okay, but you can't expect it to also *stop* meaning what it has always meant.

So I think it would be dumb for you to stop wearing your dress over this.

[Anonymous]

No one really cares. With the internet swingers don't need to have any weird code or symbols anymore, they can just go online.

It's only upside down pineapples that had that connotation, regular pineapples were a symbol of veing welcoming. Pineapples have a bit of a fascinating symbolic history, people literally used to rent them as centerpieces for parties.

[Anonymous]

Am I being ridiculous?

Incredibly ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Most people don't know about this, but I have to admit I've stopped wearing anything with a pineapple on it outside of my house. I have a couple of tee shirts I bought on sale and now I understand why they were on sale.

[Anonymous]

Why would you care?

[Anonymous]

“Swingers” is a 1950s term. Hot mom” is current.

Yeah, there are tattoo signals.

[Anonymous]

I thought it was white rocks.

[Anonymous]

Urban legend.

[Anonymous]

You can wear the dress, lol, it's fine.

Just don't go on a cheap cruise and put a pineapple magnet upside down on your door.

[Anonymous]

Are you afraid of being $lut shamed on social media?
You are overthinking but offer the dress to a charity.