Goodness, they might as well put a skirt on it

They weren't all so refined and classy, you know. That's why we talk about the "Wisdom of the ain't-gents."

II’m sure you’re joking, but it’s probably worth pointing out that very little about our society has changed in the last hundred years or so.

They're clothes pins, for hanging your wet laundry on a clothes line to dry.

Hence, "without clothes"