A Sandy Roe Sequel.

[stewey]

Did you ever get your fingers, or something else, caught in an automatic mangle?

[pixie373]

Aha. Not comfortable, then?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English

[DaisyNonna]

Nooooo! Itchy, smelly buttons, confining, struggle to get into and out. No male expected to wear something so awful.

[pixie373]

Don't blame you for losing a few then!

[Tilly2]

I loved the little rubber buttons. I loved my little liberty bodice. So snuggly.

[Tilly2]

Why did you find them confining, Daisy. They were just little vests with buttons up the front. Mine weren't smelly. They smelt of Oxydol.

[DaisyNonna]

Supposed to be an alternative to a corset. So why force them on prepubescent girls?

[DaisyNonna]

Perhaps they were a size too small? Hated them with a vengeance.
Agonising when upper half started developing!

[Sparkles62]

Not in an automatic mangle, it was a hand operated one,
Sis and i used to feed sheets of paper and dolls clothes though it, my finger got caught in it and I had the most spectacular blood blister.

[grasscarp]

My poor mum did when I was about 12. Never forgot it.

[Mamyalynne]

Liberty Bodices were for warmth not corsetry and the rubber buttons were so they would not break in the mangle.


A few mangle related incidents in our house too, thankfully not an automatic one so little harm done.

[Mamyalynne]

In this case I must disagree with Wiki, they may have evolved from a corset but they wer fleecy and we only wore them in winter.