The past is a different country. They do things differently there.

[LizzieW]

Gadget

My mum had a corset shop, so obviously when I was aged about 16 I had to wear a girdle.  I did so until into my 30s.  I reckon this is why I still have a flat stomach, despite having had 7 children.  I wish some of todays young girls would wear girdles, their stomachs are disgusting for their young age.

Liz

[LizzieW]

Ecnaps - Obviously not cool enough for me to realise I should have used 

Liz

[Ecneps]

No, Liz, wasn't correcting you, was just agreeing with you, having grandchildren borrow your things is really cool 

 

Barbara 

[LizzieW]

Ecneps

I was laughing when I typed that, sorry having just read it again, it did sound rather curt.

Liz

[Ecneps]

Didn't think you meant it like that 

my grandson borrows my clothes - but just to dress up in as he's not quite 3

Barbara

[Lydart]

Could 'the young' of today wear girdles with all those lumps of metal embedded in their belly buttons ?   (And other unmentionable places, so I've been told ... )

[ankerdine]

Did anyone have a "liberty bodice"? My husbands laughs with a wicked grin and says, your mum would never let you out without you were wearing your liberty bodice! I honestly cannot remember that. Isn't it typical?

I remember the buter/sugar treatment for sore throats. My dad was a pharmacist at Boots after the war and he would also rub whisky on my gums when new teeth came in. Luckily, it didn't do me any harm. I HATE THE STUFF. Ugh, the smell! Can't stand it.

Saw a corset c1950s om Swansea Museum yesterday just like the ones my mum wore in that awful skin-coloured pink. I am sure it would put any self-respecting husband off if you wore that today.

[Lydart]

What was that wintergreen stuff ?  Wasn't it for rubbing on chilblains ?  or was it your chest ??  It stank !

[Gadget]

The boys in our school used to rub it on their strains