Getting your directoire gusset in a twist

She's not joking.

My Mum is 89 = is that any good?

But she also has to be rich and sexy Kitty - messenger expects much!

Please, please I beg of you, please do not define sexy in this instance.

Not convinced my Mum is either but it's in the eye of the beholder!

That's what I'm hoping will be avoided kitty

reminds of the Mikado. Something about being sufficiently decayed?

Yikes! Surely that's a different prediliction entirely....

No! Not what you're thinking , I think it's the daughter in law elect and The Lord high executioners adviser!

Ah. There is beauty in the bellow of the blast.
Koko and Katisha
Mikado!

There's a fascination frantic
In a ruin that's romantic.
Do you think you are sufficiently decayed?

In regard to what you've mentioned
I have given my attention
And I think I'm suffiently decayed!
Oh
Sing along Derry etc!

Galen, should we have a G&S thread?

Does anyone know why those now "hopefully" out of date garments were called "Directoire knickers"?

anno and we could have a little list...

Wasn't the whole style of Empire-line clothing (Jane Austen's time; females anyway) called Directoire? Or is it the 'era'.

Directoire style, mostly architectural, I think, was a feature of post-revolutionary France. It was quite neo-Classical as its inspiration was ancient Rome. (I know nothing about ancient Roman knickers.) It comes just before Empire style which is more the Jane Austen sort of thing, I think.

Thanks, absent.

Empire line dresses are very pretty.

Gosh, absent I am impressed! Could you do a bit of research into Roman knickers now, please?

(Actually, aren't knickers as such a fairly new invention? I think women could just "go" wherever when they wore long skirts)

My mum does that now Ariadne - oops probably spoiled her chances with messenger now

Somehow I doubt it kitty

Ariadne Funny you should say that. No sooner had I posted than I started wondering about underwear in ancient Rome. I think when knickers were first around they were regarded as garments worn only by women of easy virtue. Given how capacious they were, that is further evidence that concealment is far more titillating than exposure.

Sexual arousal – bloomers versus thongs. Discuss.

No, don't!!!

I understood that knickers came into being with the fashion for hooped crinolines. Ladies needed something to cover their modesty if the whole thing tipped or was blown up. No problem with twisted gussets though - they didn't have a gusset. Just two legs. Thus a pair.