PYF AUG: you don't get to see her chew the MLP figurine.

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Ms Boods: Mar 19, 2009; Did you ever wonder where the Romans got bread from? It wasn't from Waitrose!

LingcodKilla posted:

Did elastic really not exist until after the 40s?

poo poo im gonna have to google this one.

My mum is 89 (born in 1929), so she was a pre-teen/teen in the early to mid 1940s -- when I was a kid in the 1970s, she was adamant that I wear only granny-pants under my school uniform (as opposed to bikini or hip-huggers) because 'They don't stay up! And there's nothing more embarrassing than to have your knickers fall down in public!!' Having your drawers or knickers fall down for whatever reason in the pre-modern elastic era was enough of a thing that it showed up in children's stories in the pre-decent elastic era and something 1940s tweens worried about because 'they knew someone it happened to!' (She claims it happened to her). Early elastics also tended to dry out in summer heat and become useless because they broke or stretched out and didn't snap back.

And now I have the Rutles' 'Knicker-elastic King' stuck in my head.

Brief (HA!) history of modern underwear

https://blog.findmypast.co.uk/pants-9-ways-underwear-changed-forever-in-1939-1434540101.html

KnickersFact! posted:

Elastic became increasingly common in underwear, replacing the buttons and clasps of previous years and making everyone sing in the streets like a scene from the Billy Elliot musical. Unfortunately in many cases it wasn't actually sewn into the underwear, simply threaded through and held together at a single seam. This meant many people had the unfortunate experience of a seam popping and their underwear falling to the floor.