I wanted the earth to open up and swallow me

The one I have done a few times is go to the beach in my swimming costume , put knickers in my bag for changing and forget bra. Well I am well endowed and it’s embarrassing. The last time it happened my DH leaned across and said quietly ‘I know you’re lovely but that’s a bit much’. I said I know I forgot it! He thought I was doing it deliberately !!!
The prize for the funniest tale of embarrassing clothes goes to I think it was Spike Milligan. He said he went for a curry, had a slight mishap, dashed into a department store on the way to the train station to go home and quickly bought some men’s underwear and trousers. Got on the train at Charing Cross , went to the loo, took off the offending articles and not knowing what to do with them wrapped them in a ball and threw them out the window. Opened the carrier bag and there was a ladies pink cardigan!

LOL ! good that you are not too embarrassed and decided to share.
I had a much more embarrassing situation than yours, that I can’t share and haven’t told anyone.
No one knows you, just have a chuckle to yourself ?

My mum told me that during the war they used to wear french knickers which yhey msde from parachute silk. She stood queuing in the butchers one day when they dropped around her ankles. She stepped out of them, shoved them in her picket and ran! Telling my dad afterwards he marched her off to Woolworths for some new elastic, which he insisted she had to put in the legs too. Atvyhe counter he picked up some eladtic and gave it to her saying ' Here - this is what you need!' It was a sanitary belt!

I was doing my shopping and noticed the lady in front of me had something hanging on the bottom of her skirt.
I tapped her on the shoulder and mentioned it and to her horror she had been to the loo and it was the freshener that was hooked inside the loo had got hooked on her skirt.

Same sort of thing happened to me in Debenhams. I’d been to the loo then was walking round the store looking for a dress for an occasion when a woman tapped me on the shoulder and told me my skirt was tucked into my knickers! Red face or what.

Sorry - typing too fast, should have checked my mistakes!

Oh FC61 I'm weeping with laughter at your Spike Milligan tale poor old Spike it could only happen to him

My mum loved to tell the story of when her pants fell down. She was pushing me in my big pram when her pants suddenly fell round her ankles. She went to side of the pram and stepped out of them and quickly put them under my blanket. This was on a busy high street but she convinced herself that no one saw anything.

I appreciate your embarrassment. However it reminds me of the occasion a friend of mine was at a university ball, dancing with someone she definitely fancied but didn’t really know very well, when all of a sudden her knickers broke loose and fell down round her ankles. She calmly stepped out of them, picked them up and carried on dancing. I’ve always admired her sheer aplomb. Don’t give it another thought!

Having just written to you regarding a friend, and then reading other people’s posts I am reminded that when I was attending a private View at Sotheby’s, the v.smart auctioneers in Bond Street, London a while ago, I was waiting in a queue ready to show our invitations when someone tapped me on the shoulder ( a woman fortunately) and said I had a piece of loo roll hanging out of my knickers, which in turn my skirt was tucked into! I felt really embarrassed but got over it quite quickly and had forgotten the occasion until now.

Minnie - that so made me laugh. My daughter, when about 4, went into the bathroom where her great granddad was brushing his teeth. For whatever reason and like your daughter, she yanked his pyjama bottoms down. He was quite a private gentleman so very shocked but did laugh later. My daughter did get a ‘talking to’ I might add.

I hate tights. Many years ago my tights began to slide towards my shoes. I was in a computer shop and once they reached my ankles I had to do something. I had to ask a male computer guru if I could use the loo and explain why.

My ex boss did not possess a pair of knickers or a nightdress so of course went everywhere commando.

Once when my partner was off to Karate, in the changing room full of men he pushed an arm through the arm of his karate top and out popped a pair of my knickers. All the men roared and I’m still embarrassed to this day even though I wasn’t there.
Also once I was in an office me and a man and I pulled out a pen out of my bag and a tampon shot to the floor.
I picked it up very quickly but we both knew he had seen it .

As a child we had to wear 'navy bags' at school. the waist elastic on mine broke and rather than go comando I let them dangle. End of the day in bus station waiting to go home - gust of wind, gathered dress skirt blew right up - 'luckily' so far it covered my blushes!!

At the end of the 60s my husband and I were headed to the Far East for a job in Japan, by way of India. Somewhat nervous we booked a proper hotel for the first night in then Bombay although we intended very different accommodation for the rest of our tour, basically anywhere we could safely lay our heads.
The hotel turned out to be super luxurious with staff dressed all in white with magnificent turbans waiting on us hand and foot. It was hot and I washed my bra and knickers and hung them up in the bathroom to dry. Next morning we packed our rucksacks and prepared to set off to find a more modest place to stay but as we reached the door a resplendent figure came running down the stairs, arm in the air with my bra and knickers dangling from his hand, “Madam, Madam, you have forgotten these”. Red-faced I thanked him and bolted.

Oh, you poor thing! That is a classic embarrassment-horror episode.

We've all been there, if that's any comfort.

Happens to the young members of the family as well. My dd took a pair of jeans straight from the TD to put on. Later that day a pair of tight appeared down one leg.

When I worked in London I was on the up escalator when a lady in front of me suddenly stepped forward only to leave her knickers on the step. She carried on as if nothing had happened. Shortly after that the escalator was ‘out of order’ - no doubt the knickers had got stuck in the mechanism.

Another 'moment' saw me cycling to work with a bra flowing out behind me. My bike was kept in the hall. And clothes that needed washing were flung over the banister on the landing and picked up and taken to the Laundry Room as we descended to the lower floor. Sadly, I missed the black lacy bra and it was attached to my pannier bag, flowing in the wind. Never noticed it until I arrived at work and was parking up o-0

I was on a coach holiday and got up late for a trip so shoved some shoes on. It was only when we stopped that I noticed I was wearing one white shoe and on black! My friend was mortified but I refused to buy a pair of shoes and decided that I was setting a new trend

Who remembers their mum mending knickers elastic?

A good friend of my mother's was wearing a pair of French knickers one day in 1944 when elastic was unobtainable. Her knickers were sewn with a waistband and a button and buttonhole. Due to rationing, the summer dress she had one was extremely short.

She was crossing a busy city square when the button on her waistband gave up the ghost and popped off.

You get the picture? Young girl in very short skirt with her French knickers round her feet.

Asked what she had done, she replied, "I kicked them off and walked on!"

I bought a pair of sexy knickers that had suspenders attached. I put them on before a night out. I got to the end of the road heading to the bus stop when I felt the whole lot sliding down.....
I turned around and rushed home before anything too embarrassing happened thankfully

Relish in the idea that you have lost weight and treat yourself with some new underwear - sexy and the right size.