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Feb 2, 2004 · Peter Learns About Directoire Knickers. The year of 1950 will always be remembered by me as the year I discovered Directoire Knickers. Up until then, I had only used my sister’s school knickers, a style called gym knickers, made of a delightful silky material called Rayon. My discovery of Directoire Knickers came about quite by accident.
Mar 15, 2005 · I wore my corsets at night under my pyjamas and all went very well for a week or two. It was a Thursday afternoon when I got home from school that I found my mother waiting for me with my corsets in her hand. “Where did you get these from?” was her greeting.
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Pantaloons
The Empire fashionsat the turn of the 19th century were often little more than sheer nightgowns. The practical solution to the discomfort of lighter clothing was to simply adopt the warm undergarment called pantaloons which were already worn by men. Women's pantaloons were made of light stockinet in a flesh toned nude colour and reached to just below the knee, or even all the way to the ankles. This is why Empire women often appear to be wearing no underwear when seen in paintings of the era....
Knickerbockers
The term knickers comes from the book written by Washington Irving in 1809 and called History of New York. He used the pen name Diedrick Knickerbocker. Herr Knickerbocker was supposedly descended from the original Dutch settlers in New York and was lampooned by the well-known caricaturist George Cruikshank. You can see from illustrations in the book that the Knickerbocker men were dressed in loose breeches, strapped or tied at the knee. From the 1820s onward the breeches were known as knicker...
Victorian Drawers to Combinations and Knickers Drawers 1840-76
Queen Victoria's standards of propriety were so stringent that she soon ensured that the fashion for knickers became a staple of every Victorian woman's wardrobe. In her younger days she was a leader of fashion, for example, her hairstyle was much copied. Other styles she favoured such as tartan fabrics in clothing were also followed. Such was her long term influence on Victorian knickers that by the dawn of the Edwardian era in 1901only the poorest women went without underwear simply due to...
Drawers Merge Into Knickers
In the 1840s Victorian drawers were plain and reached well below the knees. In the 1850s they became more embellished so that by 1868 decoration on knickers was usual. Often the lower leg edges of Victorian knickers were trimmed with lace and had 5 or 6 tucks above it. Left - French cambric and broderie anglaise lace Victorian drawers of 1867 and still open-legged. By 1876 the drawer legs of knickers merged to become closed. That is, the open nature of the crotch was closed and an opening of...
Combinations Arrive in 1877
From 1877 onward the popular Victorian drawers had new competition from combinations. Just as today women wear panties, knickers, thongs, briefs, g-strings, boy-shorts, bodies etc., so women sought the perfect underwear for their sense of self in Victorian times. The undergarment competition came in the form of a new underwear item called combinations. Combinations were first developed as a Victorian undergarment in 1877. They were initially made from linen, silk, merino, calico, cambric or n...
This 1939 open seat vest (C) had a back opening and was all-in-one with legs from thigh to knee. They appear to be called vests in the advert and defined by having either closed or open seats (as in astronaut/airman fighter parachutists suits), yet they still seem to be in effect modern ladies combinations. The decades change and so do the undergar...
Designer knickers, which were very functional pieces in wash and wear materials, became usual with designer brand names suddenly getting attention. Sloggi and Calvin Klein were popular panty brief names of the 1980s to the extent of letting show the designer woven waistband. CK underwear became a known brand name worldwide as it was constantly adve...
Aug 1, 2017 · Improved artificial rayon fabric enabled ordinary women to wear glamorous silk-like knickers or ‘panties’/‘pants’ by the 1930s, both camiknickers combining slip and knickers, or separate bra and French knickers in vogue.
Nov 22, 1998 · By the 1920s, some women still wore drawers but many found knickers more practical. Wide frilly versions became known as French knickers and the closer fitting Directoire knickers sported...
Aug 12, 2005 · Now I saw why tonight she had forsaken her lovely, all-enveloping directoire knickers for a pair of pink, silky nylon French knickers. She guided my dick up the wide leg of her knickers and onto her cunt, and I felt for the first time the warm, soft wonder of a woman’s cunt.
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The standard set of 1940’s lingerie when wearing a dress comprised a brassiere and pantie girdle, worn under a slip. Women in uniform were advised to limit their underwear to a simple pair of directoire knickers and vest made from fine wool.
