Knickers or pants

That reminds me of when I warned DH not to put "my new underwear" in the tumble drier when I'd treated myself to a delicate set. Sure enough the bra was draped over the radiator when I got home, but the knickers had been treated to a long hot tumble. He didn't realise the word underwear included knickers.

Knickers remind me of PE at school in bottle green ones! Kids would be horrified these days if asked to do PE in their Knickers!!

Isn't it amazing which threads go on for so long. 7 pages on knickers already!

I had to think about it , but I'm definitely a knickers girl ,sometimes baggy,sometimes big, sometimes comfy, sometimes not, ! & ?& sometimes those gorgeous knickers just don't fit!!

I had a thought recently about knickers - did the silly idea to ride horses sideways come about because ladies didn't wear any several hundred years ago?

That’s a thought, AlieOxon, but I think it was more that women always wore long skirts which wouldn’t allow for riding astride. There’s a lot about the history of riding sidesaddle and associated clothing on Wikipedia.

plus, of course, riding astride would be considered most indelicate, with legs wide apart and, remember in previous centuries, especially 19th/early 20th, there were deep held beliefs (by male doctors, in particular) that if a woman got involved in anything from higher education to sport it could damage their reproductive ability. Riding astride would be an obvious no, no.

Wasn't it believed, (or maybe its true?) that horse riding could tear the hymen?

That sounds plausible MA

I actually think my mother had been told that, from her reaction when my sister fell on a garden roller (hope not TMI)

Ah, the obsession with proofs of virginity.

Drawers were so called because they had a draw string through the top to tighten or loosen them, before elastic was invented.
I wasn’t allowed to wear navy school knickers next to my skin (perhaps the dye ran?) so always wore white ones underneath.