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| 19 Feb 10, 5:18 PM Spankingservices 5 yrs £  |
Ebay is a good source apparently spankingservices@live.co.uk | ||
| 19 Feb 10, 6:48 PM Rosalee UK, 6 yrs  |
My main memory of these is of horrible, nylon things that were prone to cling to your legs in a very annoying way. I gave up wearing them back in the 80s. However, I do remember having a long, white, cotton one, with a broderie anglaise hem. This was way back in the late 70s when these were very much in fashion, worn under floral print skirts. Whilst I liked the way they looked, they weren't really me (too frilly and girly...and white) and I think I only wore mine a couple of times. I think, overall, in certain incarnations, they can look great and very sexy - on other women. Not me! | ||
| 19 Feb 10, 7:14 PM PrettyPrettyPlease UK(OX), 24 mths |
I've been dying to reply to this since I joined, but I had to wait my obligatory week - it's like joining Judaism or buying an expensive car. Anyways... I love petticoats and slips - satin, silk, cotton, net, whatever - girlie, frilly, silly, sexy and it's like unwrapping a present. Plus it keeps you warmer in this cold weather, especially draughty bits like the bare thigh at the top of a stocking... Lingerie is a passion and any extra bits I can indulge in are all good :D x PPP | ||
| 21 Feb 10, 9:08 AM Spankingservices 5 yrs £ |
You sound very girly girl. Ideal!! Any pictures in your petticoats to share? spankingservices@live.co.uk | ||
| 21 Feb 10, 11:07 AM PrettyPrettyPlease UK(OX), 24 mths |
Not yet, but I'm working on it :D | ||
| 21 Feb 10, 11:34 AM ClassAct2005 UK(N), 7 yrs |
Presumably traditionally they were there (a) for warmth when we lived in draughty castles etc and (b) for modesty - loads of layes in the Victorian age before you got through to her private parts etc. | ||
| 21 Feb 10, 3:05 PM Prosperine 7 yrs |
Very much so....and C - to aid washing issues. Initially due to top dress fabric such as tapestry weaves being practically unwashable (not to mention scratchy!), they also provided a surface for the gowns to be sewn onto - which was handy in terms of cost (for fabric) and fit and technology for construction. With the upper classes in the later 1800's a lot of the above stated true but it was also to do with being able to have clean clothes without having the expense of washing the upper garments. With the lower classes it helped keep washing and costs down. if you only had two outfits they would keep longer and be able to be worn more if the undergarments got the actual wear – this is also why children had the dress aprons that went over their dresses. By the 1920's when the form was looser and fabrics were more resilient, they aided keep long soft lines – a long way from the tight restrictions of the S or V! Its something that I think has been eroded partly due to technology; we can wash things easier and cheaper, we turn over our wardrobes more often, we have better heating and drier house; and also to do with taste, we do not have a form any more, there is not a female idea shape as there was and so no need for confinement to create it, which is possibly why it has become fetishised. For me, an outfit is not complete unless it is correct throughout. | ||
| 22 Feb 10, 5:51 PM Spankingservices 5 yrs £ |
Marvelous my time anytime I don't see the allure in pulling tracky bottoms down for spanking or otherwise spankingservices@live.co.uk | ||
| 22 Feb 10, 6:07 PM Prosperine 7 yrs |
Its not mine alone. It is a paraphase from lots of sources but its hardly a new view. I get rather costume obsessed when I make stuff so have collected a lot of articles and the like. A lot of the new wave shape was actually based on making bigger fabrics than pulling in waists - its neat tricks with darts, under pinnings and the like, that and having heavier duty fabrics. Again, less form and more function. You do have to bear in mind not ever one did dior! Its very easy to get swept up in a small view of a whole era, which I always think is a shame as its often that juxdoposition which provides the life to what is in effect a dead language.
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| 22 Feb 10, 6:20 PM lady_night AU, 2 yrs |
my entire wardrobe would be filled with such beautiful garments, if only i knew how to wear them properly! It would be wonderful if there were courses on how to do this sort of thing, or at least a lesson or too... 
"I meant," said Iplsore bitterly, "what is there in this world that makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. "CATS," he said eventually, "CATS ARE NICE." – Sourcery, Terry Pratchett |
