Just think of the great thermal underwear that exists these days. But, of course, one doesn't need it in everyday life now because all the buildings (schools, homes, etc) are centrally heated!
Trish, I've heard of liberty bodices and I think that goes back to my childhood in Victoria, Australia but no idea why (perhaps the girls in old-fashioned books that I used to read wore them?). I certainly have never seen one and didn't know about the rubber buttons (rubber buttons!!! wow!!!). I suspect that, if they were ever on sale in Australia, it would have been too far back for even the oldest of us RootsChatters to remember ...
I do remember that we did wear singlets - and I remember my mother sewing a camphor block into the front of my singlet to protect against colds! There was also something worse with the same aim - a ghastly orange proprietary product called (as I recall) Thermogene which was also worn on the chest.
And they call them the good old days!
JAP
