Stiched in ? - Page 2

cashman · 30-09-2010, 14:42

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Originally Posted by MargaretR

Bathing became more frequent in Tudor times when Queen Elizabeth I set the trend by bathing once a month.

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Originally Posted by MargaretR

The camphor blocks were in use in our lifetimes (we have a mutual friend who was subjected to it

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Wasn't referring to camphor blocks, but the bathing bit.

mattylad · 30-09-2010, 15:03

In ye olde days they used to stitch in the boyfriend if he came round to stay - to prevent any hanky panky.

Nowdays people just get stitched up instead.

jaysay · 30-09-2010, 17:31

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Originally Posted by MargaretR

I know that camphor blocks were 'stitched in' to vests and liberty bodices in winter, as an attempt to avert colds.

Bathing became more frequent in Tudor times when Queen Elizabeth I set the trend by bathing once a month.

My mum used to insist I wore a liberty bodice when I was young to protect my chest, some bloody use they were

Margaret Pilkington · 01-10-2010, 14:15

I used to bite bits off the rubber buttons on my liberty bodices.......so much so that the buttons never stayed closed.
My Ma put paid to that by changing them for those horrid metal buttons covered in white cotton cloth.......I couldn't bite lumps off those!

katex · 01-10-2010, 14:29

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I used to bite bits off the rubber buttons on my liberty bodices.......so much so that the buttons never stayed closed.
My Ma put paid to that by changing them for those horrid metal buttons covered in white cotton cloth.......I couldn't bite lumps off those!

This is why we all love your Ma.

Margaret Pilkington · 01-10-2010, 15:02

Aaaaaawwww! Thanks Kate, I will tell her you said that....i just know it will make her smile. I bet she has forgotten how she used to find bits of grey rubber button under my bed......I wasn't so daft as to actually eat the rubber....I just bit them to bits and chucked the bitten bits under the bed.
The other thing about the cotton covered metal buttons was, they used to get spoiled if you forgot to position the garment porperly when you were putting them through the mangle.....once mangled, well they were no good as buttons anymore.

See, now everyone knows I had a rubber fetish.

Lost in Cornwall · 18-12-2010, 19:00

My wife reckons that children were stitched into their underwear for the winter and that they had button flaps at the back so they could go to the toilet. Seems more trouble than it's worth to me.

jaysay · 19-12-2010, 09:45

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Originally Posted by Lost in Cornwall

My wife reckons that children were stitched into their underwear for the winter and that they had button flaps at the back so they could go to the toilet. Seems more trouble than it's worth to me.

Wouldn't want to be sat next to a kid like that

Sara · 20-12-2010, 19:35

Just found this, it explains about stitching children into their underwear. Yuk

THE WAY WE WERE

Margaret Pilkington · 20-12-2010, 20:10

Well all that must have been a blooming long time ago because neither I, nor my Ma(who is a well travelled lady of 83...don't tell her I said that) have no knowledge of anything like that...in fact both my mother and her mother were very very particular about personal hygiene....however cold it was, you were encouraged to strip off and wash all those intricate little places every day!

jaysay · 21-12-2010, 09:03

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Well all that must have been a blooming long time ago because neither I, nor my Ma(who is a well travelled lady of 83...don't tell her I said that) have no knowledge of anything like that...in fact both my mother and her mother were very very particular about personal hygiene....however cold it was, you were encouraged to strip off and wash all those intricate little places every day!

Ya I used to wash my ears and back of mi neck everyday too Margaret