New use for knicker elastic!

Oh no! So what's holding your knickers up?

Drawing pins?

Maybe she's dispensed with the knickers for now?

My DH would sort you out with a watch strap....has little watch repair hobby going on in the shed. Reasonable rates!

Could be a relief for the neighbours with this windy weather......

When the elastic went on Mum's knickers, she popped into the local stationery shop and borrowed a stapler. Job done

my mum always safety pinned (Think nappy pins) her knickers with two pins to her roll on...she had a horror of the elastic going and was scarred as a child by her elderly grandmother stepping out of her drawers in the middle of the street and putting in her handbag

I always like to put a hot iron over me gusset ( not when I'm wearing them!) For hygiene but it does make the elastic round the legs scratchy!!

Only on Gransnet! This has really cheered me up!

Luckygirl Good for you! We woman should know how to improvise when we need to.

Twentysixteen! Here we go and what does this one hold?
Events that none of us could know are waiting to unfold.
We hope for peace and happiness, for everyone on earth,
This may be far too much to ask. So let's see what it's worth.
First look. At all that matters , our family and friends.
Were you unkind to someone? Is there time to make amends?
Shake a hand that's near to you,. Give someone a hug.
Try to show some patience, and not be quite so smug.
Let's take a look at what we have and cherish what is near.
And give it our best shot this time. Lets have a better year.
The birds, the bees, the flowers . All these are yours and mine.
So enjoy this place of Beauty, for the Sake of Auld Lang Syne.

Be Happy xx

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luckygirl you should thread some beads on to it and you will be very much in fashion!

downtoearth you must be related to DH! His mother told me that her mother had the same thing happen to her but just swept the offending garment into her handbag and carried on as if nothing had happened.

syn litttle did they know 75+ years later we would be have it mentioned in cyber space.......wonder what our kids will tell in years to come

This has made me laugh. My mother never called them knickers or pants - always britches. It always sounded like a rude word to me.

Think that's what one granny said..britches...Think the other one said drawers....they were warming to the knees as I 'remember..i love the word knickers,it has a slightly naughty ring to it. GD insists on calling them pants and gets mildly cross with me.

My daughter is resuming her travels in a couple of weeks and one of the things she said she must take with her this time was ‘safety pins’!!

Thank you everyone for this wonderful conversation. To Luckygirl for starting it and to everyone for their contributions - it has made me really larf!! I always have a nappy pin in my handbag ever since my youngest stopped wearing nappies - she's 34 now! Didn't know why and often thought I should throw it away - now I know why I need it - incase my "britches" fall down while walking my dog!! Happy new year everyone.

'Britches'! Haven't heard that word since my GM died, 34 years ago. She wore horrible wishy-washy pink long-legged knickers. She was about 5 stone dripping wet and they were voluminous - I can see them hanging on her washing line or above the Rayburn if it was raining.

I remember stepping out of a pair of French knickers in the middle of Bath , I left them and carried on walking.

None of my knickers has the kind of elastic you can remove without destroying the garment.

My great aunt used to wear woollen combinations....like a onesie with buttons in the gusset for peeing! But then she wore drawers over the top I think!! She was a spinster - I wonder why??!!

My Mum used to call those big pink bloomers "Passion Killers"!

I love the word knickers! It's one of those words that feels like it will annoy some people. Another is frock - it's like I'm being common!

It does sound fabulously frivolous. Pants are much more sensible. Mind you Willmapantsfit doesn't have quite the same ring to it!