#underwear

Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to pucker their lips suggestively. They could not say that they were going "to bed"--that planted too stimulating an image--but merely that they were "retiring." It became effectively impossible to discuss clothing in even a clinical sense without resort to euphemisms. Trousers became "nether integuments" or simply "inexpressibles" and underwear was "linen." Women could refer among themselves to petticoats or, in hushed tones, stockings, but could mention almost nothing else that brushed bare flesh. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#modesty #underwear #victorian-era #home

Underwear makes me uncomfortable and besides my parts have to breathe. ↗

— Jean Harlow

#breathe #makes #me #parts #uncomfortable

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out. ↗

— Bohumil Hrabal

#books #brains #sleep #underwear #authority

I see L.A. as a beautiful blonde with dirty underwear. ↗

— David Boreanaz

#blonde #dirty #i #i see #see

I'm a private person, and I don't want people knowing what kind of underwear I like. It's creepy! ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#i #kind #knowing #like #people

I've had lots of kids come up and ask for my autograph, I've had a grandmother stop me and ask me if I know a good place to buy underwear. ↗

— Prince William

#autograph #buy #come #good #good place

I don't get sent anything strange like underwear. I get sent cookies. ↗