Clothing names

Baggs

^How about...galoshes, mackintoshes, duffle coats ( with toggles) Guernseys^

I'm wearing a Guernsey (Gansey) right now. I've had it for 23 years.

Baggs
Mine are 35 years old. The tan coloured one has the name of the boat ( that was my home) embroidered on it.
Not by me, I have to add. I had it done at the boat show.
Wayzegoose. It’s an old word for a printers outing.

i had no idea what a liberty bodice was until i read GN, and i'm quite as old as some of you.
it still gives me a kind of shudder of distaste; it sounds so euphemistic, i feel it is a kind of strait-jacket., a kind of get them used to it junior corset. something constricting.
can't believe it was for the cold, if so why didn't boys wear it.
just wear an extra long woolly vest or similar for the cold.
as for stockings being attached, for 10 year olds! we wore long sox until over 13, that was uniform, and by then thin tights had come in, one piece right up to waist. i have never worn anything like suspenders, sounds a bit sleazy to me.
as for the word panties, no no no. soft porn word.

Missfoodlove

When I moved to Lancashire from Yorkshire I was baffled by pants!
In Lancashire these are trousers or jeans in Yorkshire pants are underwear.

That's funny Missfoodlove, when I gre up in Lancashire, trousers were known as kecks!

Welbeck, I think you are probably right, a Liberty bodice was a sort of descendant of the corset, the woven strips that I previously described may well have been used originally for the dreaded whale bones. However they were definitely worn for warmth, so possibly the reason that little boys didn’t wear them was the same reason as why they wore short trousers for the first few years - to toughen them up!

I thought trousers was always used in the UK and am surprised some people say pants here. Slacks is an old fashioned word for women's trousers.
I'm also surprised some people still say frock. My grandmother used to say it, as did my old fashioned MIL. My DGM also said costume for suit. I've not heard that one for years.
I had ski pants as a child but does anyone else remember them being revived in the 90s? I liked wearing them as I was skinny and they fitted better than other trousers.

I hate the word frock, haven’t heard it in years