Keep the fellas away
 

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

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

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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. :eek:

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

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Looks really good,where exactly is the museum though?

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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 :D

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Walsall Museum

There it is miss kitty.

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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

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was just gonna say.....what are knickers? :rolleyes: ;)

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Do you wear brown striped skirts then? :D

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ewwwwwwwwwwww lol

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:eek::eek::eek::eek: YUCK!


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

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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?

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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

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i never wear them

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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!

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

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ey i can sew and i can knit :D

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I can't sew-but i try,in fact im that bad the teacher used to let me out of lesson to go to the library when we did creative sewing because i was so bad at it :(
But i did manage to sew a button back onto my coat last week, and it has actually stayed on!Im chuffed to bits!

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I can sew but neither of my sisters can, mum tried to teach us all but they never really payed much attention. Must admit though, i think i wear the modern day equivalent most of the time lol but at a guess I would say it is probably much less painful (although today's arent all that comfortable)

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Mum could knit .. taught my both my sisters to knit - came to me no chance i couldnt get the hang of it. Both my sisters can sew pretty good - me no chance im hopeless.
I can do enough to get by sewing a button on or sewing a hem up. But hated sewing, knitting at school. Even got my sister to make my sewing bag up and she embroidered my name on it mainly cos i'd made a cock up of it.

Was glad come the 3rd year and could give it up.

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Do you use a mushroom, Margaret? I've still got my mother's - it must be about 75 years old - though I don't do much darning these days.

I used to knit all my children's jumpers and cardigans, also did a lot of crochet but I've a bit of arthritis in my fingers now so don't do so much. I can sew too but I was never as good as my mother, who did tailoring at Night School for quite a few years and used to make our overcoats etc. Anyway - one up on mum - she couldn't knit. :D

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I learnt to knit at a very early age -used to knit my own dolls clothes.
I went on to learn crochet and tatting.
As a teenager I sometimes bought 3yds of cotton print on a Saturday morning, made a dress in the afternoon and wore it to go bopping on Saturday night.
I did some tailoring (a coat and several suits) - which I learnt from those expensive/detailed Vogue patterns.
I gave up making clothing when it became cheaper to buy garments than to buy the materials.