Keep the fellas away

shillelagh · 26-01-2008, 22:58

Dont want to give the young ones ideas and the owd 'uns a heartattack at remembering what they had to undo!!!!

BBC NEWS | England | West Midlands | Black country | Underwear in 'brief' exhibition

Lilly · 26-01-2008, 23:09

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

Dont want to give the young ones ideas and the owd 'uns a heartattack at remembering what they had to undo!!!!

BBC NEWS | England | West Midlands | Black country | Underwear in 'brief' exhibition

I'd like to go to that exhibition. It would be very interesting to see the types of underwear that women used to wear, whalebone corsets etc.

I believe that women wore them so tight they sometimes fainted as they couldn't breathe in enough air because their lungs were so packed in they couldn't expand enough.

We don't know we're born with the stuff we wear now.

mrskitty · 28-01-2008, 11:38

Looks really good,where exactly is the museum though?

MargaretR · 28-01-2008, 13:01

My mother (born in 1909) paid loads of money to be measured and fitted with Spirella corsets. When she was in her early 80s, and in pain awaiting a hip replacement, I persuaded her to stop wearing them. It was like asking her to go naked into Woolworths

shillelagh · 28-01-2008, 16:53

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Originally Posted by misskitty

Looks really good,where exactly is the museum though?

Walsall Museum

There it is miss kitty.

mrskitty · 28-01-2008, 16:58

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Originally Posted by [email protected]

My mother (born in 1909) paid loads of money to be measured and fitted with Spirella corsets. When she was in her early 80s, and in pain awaiting a hip replacement, I persuaded her to stop wearing them. It was like asking her to go naked into Woolworths

I was going to say it would be like someone asking us to go without our knickers, but remembered some girls do go out without underwear on......to avoid V.P.L and their bras showing if wearing certain dresses/tops......

*chilly* lol

flashy · 28-01-2008, 17:45

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Originally Posted by misskitty

I was going to say it would be like someone asking us to go without our knickers, but remembered some girls do go out without underwear on......to avoid V.P.L and their bras showing if wearing certain dresses/tops......

*chilly* lol

was just gonna say.....what are knickers?

MargaretR · 28-01-2008, 17:59

Do you wear brown striped skirts then?

flashy · 28-01-2008, 18:23

ewwwwwwwwwwww lol

mrskitty · 29-01-2008, 13:10

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Do you wear brown striped skirts then?

YUCK!

So come on confessions.....whose been out in public with no knickers/boxers on????

West Ender · 29-01-2008, 13:21

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Originally Posted by [email protected]

My mother (born in 1909) paid loads of money to be measured and fitted with Spirella corsets. When she was in her early 80s, and in pain awaiting a hip replacement, I persuaded her to stop wearing them. It was like asking her to go naked into Woolworths

My mother, also born 1909, wore a corset until about the late 1960s when she discovered the strongly elasticated "roll on" - and tights. One of my earliest memories of her is sitting on her bed, early in the morning, while she spent 5 minutes fastening the endless hooks and eyes of the corset. Had she been a large lady or had a particularly lazy life, well fair enough, but she was average height and quite slim all her life and, like most of us, when young she walked everywhere and kept a house without today's modern appliances.

There was another item of underwear that I have never understood, though I think I may have worn them when a toddler. The Libery Bodice. What, exactly, was it for?

MargaretR · 29-01-2008, 14:10

Liberty bodice
I wore one every winter until I needed a bra - mum stiched suspenders on it to keep up thick brown stockings - it was fleecy lined fine stockinette material

flashy · 29-01-2008, 18:17

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Originally Posted by misskitty

YUCK!

So come on confessions.....whose been out in public with no knickers/boxers on????

i never wear them

Sue1 · 29-01-2008, 18:23

I remember the liberty bodice well also the thick brown stockings. Didn't you get massive holes in them when you fell over!

Do you remember combinations! Yuk!

MargaretR · 29-01-2008, 18:26

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Originally Posted by Sue1

I remember the liberty bodice well also the thick brown stockings. Didn't you get massive holes in them when you fell over!

Mum taught me darning - a skill unknown to the next generation