Getting your directoire gusset in a twist

Bloomers = two capacious legs. Thongs = one tight gusset. Only a bloke can say which is sexier. (Prefer Sloggis and comfort myself.)

Romans wore knickers, there are a pair of leather ones in the museum of London.
If you look at mosaics,you can see what look like bikinis worn by some athletes.

My grandma wore directoire knickers with a kite gusset - a concept I found very puzzling as a child.

We need that vicar's wife to enlighten us - fill in the gaps as it were.

When a pair of knickers were two separate legs the gaps must have been draughty.

And, of course, the cancan was notorious because of the lack of knickers.

Galen Wasn't that just the chaps?

No! Women the top half went round their breasts. I think some of the British mosaics show them as well.

Google 'villa de casale' in Sicily.

My Gran wore directoire knickers in either white or pink silk, she died in 1968 but I got the impression she had been wearing them since she was a young woman. I bet they were quite comfortable to wear.

Do we assume that those Roman women went about in Britain with their boobs on show, or was it that those who made the British mosaics just hankering after warmer climes?

Breast binders have been universal for comfort.

oh elegran was it? Gosh, in my innocence that never occurred to me.

Oh my goodness! What's happening here

(villa de casale)

It's a builder's bum, isn't it?

Didn't know women could work in the construction industry in those days

One of them seems to have a paint-roller in their hand as well....multi-tasking!

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Jess They were very good at swishing the skirts around showing not-a-lot so that the audience were roaring for more - then finished by bending over with the back turned and skirts flipped back and up. Cue even more roars, and curtain falls.

A bit like the fan dancers who could keep the feathers over the naughty bits while staying (relatively) decent.

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As in `JANE` of the Daily Mirror Elegran perfoming on theatre stages in the 1940s that`s where I fell in love with `advanced age` ladies.Those were the days......

The male assistant in John Lewis this morning was showing builders' bum. In John Lewis!!

Standards (and trousers) are slipping!

I wore these for a while in the 60's. It was a cold winter and they were fashionable.

I remember those j08!
We used to keep them on under our hockey shorts in the winter, they were visible but as the school uniform rules made no reference to whether bloomers were permissible or not, there wasn't anything the teachers could do about it!

Ours had to be navy blue, whatever type they were!

jingle, I had a red pair with black lace edging! I wore them underneath a mini dresses in 1965 or thereabouts.