(Sometimes wearing unattractive undies is the least of your worries. Drawing credit- Hardcastle.)
A long time ago, and I mean a REALLY long time ago because it was before I was born, people in this country didn’t have all the luxuries we have today. Still they managed to muddle along without television, plastic shampoo bottles, or slick supermarket tabloids. They muddled by practicing thrift. If your truck broke down you didn’t pay a mechanic, you fixed it yourself. You didn’t go to Macy’s twelve times a month for new clothes, you sewed them, assuming there was enough butter-and-egg money to buy yard goods. If you were really lucky you had a treadle-powered Singer sewing machine to work with, and clothes were handed down from older to younger siblings, patches, mismatched buttons, and all.
So it is not surprising that in this difficult time there was a focus on fundamental needs, on the basics of life. Fathers brought home flour in 25-pound sacks so that mothers could bake bread to feed the family. That’s a lot of flour, but maybe not so much if it’s all you have to eat.
Have you heard this story before? Did your grandfather tell it, perhaps? Then sit still and behave because the others haven’t, and I’m getting to the point.
The flour sacks I mentioned before you interrupted were made of cotton muslin, so mothers raised by their mothers to ‘waste not, want not’ found a use for the cloth once the flour had been emptied. You see where this is going, right? Yes, they washed the sacks until the material softened, then cut them up, sewed in a bit of elastic, and made underpants for their daughters. These makeshift drawers resembled boxer shorts more than anything, but so did most panties of the time, and anyway what do you want for free? The flour companies knew this so they obligingly put a flowery design on the outside of their sacks, and printed patterns on the inside to make it easier for a working mother (is there another kind?) to outfit her children in underthings.
(Long-legged knickers as part of schoolgirl uniform in mid-20th century Japan, as performed by Taira Kibato. She plays all five roles in this photo.)
Not everyone was that thrifty, or that poor, so girls who wore flour-sack panties, instantly recognizable by the flower design, often endured ridicule from their more affluent peers who wore real store-bought undies. My grandmother made flour-sack panties for my mother and my aunt during the 1930s, when just about everyone was poor, and there still was an angry edge to her voice when Mom spoke about it. I got the idea they weren’t overly comfortable, either.
So I don’t want any more grief about granny panties. Compared to flour-sack knickers, Carter’s Spankees, the demure thigh-to-ribcage briefs that nurses used to wear under their translucent white trousers, are the sexiest undergarments in creation.
That is all.
Devlin out.
Yes let the naughty women wear old-fashioned bloomers, called ” derectoire knickers”, before taken them down for a good old-fashioned spanking.
Thank you for yet another wonderful picture of Rosaleen Young, who is sadly missed, I enjoyed seeing her performance in “Disobedience” yet another spanking film but this had the addition of a maid’s uniform.
Back to the old fashioned bloomers, I agree a wonderful sight during spanking and even better as they hang around the knees as the spanking continues.
Thanks for chiming in, Summertime. I take it that by ‘sadly missed’ you mean Rosaleen no longer is working as a model and not that she has passed away. And indeed she is a delightful spankee – cute, sassy, energetic, with a quite admirable sit-upon that reddened adorably and often. Plus she is English.
I believe she now lives in Australia and yes she was one of the most delightful young ladies of the time, not just as a “spankie” but also as a poinygirl; and yes an English rose.