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>In answer to Robert, I can say that panty girdles were >virtually unknown back in the 1950s and very little >worn until tights first appeared along with mini >skirts in the late 1960s. There was some limited >attempt to market them in the pre-tights years both >for wear under trousers (something women were just >beginning to do) and for "sports", notably tennis and >golf, I think. Not many women wore trousers other >than perhaps for gardening or country walks, so they >wouldn't bother buying a girdle specially for those >activities. I remember my girlfriend laughing at the >idea of buying a girdle for playing tennis. >When tights took over from stockings for every-day >wear, women who were used to wearing a girdle for >figure shaping bought a panty girdle - usually a brief >style - for wear with tights. Those early panty >girdles usually came with four attachable suspenders >but my then girlfriend never used them and after a >while they were no longer supplied. >I only learned that panty girdles were more generally >worn in the USA when the internet came along and I >read about schoolgirls wearing them with stockings. In >Britain (and throughout Europe, I think) schoolgirls >wore suspender belts or girdles, not panty girdles. >Heather (above) confirms that open girdles restricted >walking more than panty girdles. As an observer, I >know that stockings tended in those earlier times to >come up to around mid-thigh and girdles were designed >to extend below the buttocks on to the top of the legs >with short suspenders tightly attached to the nylons. >I read somewhere a comment from a woman saying that a >girdle made walking "harder work".

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