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The etiquette of pants?

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Along with hand gel, I should offer "full tights" at my front door for contractors who like to swing free. There is a sketch in there, for sure.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Carpenters used to wear aprons … perhaps that’s also a tradition that could be brought back into vogue … and then the brickies could have the hod pieces 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    :D:D
  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    Loved your story @mander, never gonna watch Timeteam in the same light again!! 😱🤣👍
  • SuesynSuesyn Posts: 664
    Back in the dim and distant past as a new girl at the high school I was given a list of required clothing. Next to red or grey tights was "knickers with elastic at the waist and KNEES". Even my grandmother laughed at that.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Reminds me of when we had a prospectus for my daughter’s secondary school,  she was reading the uniform list,  oh mum!  We have to have navy French Knickers,  that’s nice isn’t it,   I told her to read it again. French Navy knickers. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953

  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Lyn said:
    Reminds me of when we had a prospectus for my daughter’s secondary school,  she was reading the uniform list,  oh mum!  We have to have navy French Knickers,  that’s nice isn’t it,   I told her to read it again. French Navy knickers. 
    Could we please have an illustration showing the difference between these 2 kinds of knickers? 
    Papi Jo, an ignorant Frenchman.  o:)
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    These are knickers that are in the colour "French Navy" - a dark blue. They used to be a standard part of school uniform, esp to play sports.
     


    "French knickers" seem to mean lingerie that's lacy or silky.

  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    ...quick, call an ambulance, I think I've had a heart attack....you can't post such things here...blinkey, blimey - whatever next...
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
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