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Date Posted: 06:04:17 03/22/25 Sat
Author: Glen
Subject: Re: So young for a girdle
In reply to: Robert 's message, "Re: So young for a girdle" on 06:20:49 03/20/25 Thu

In 1960s Canada In the famous and at the time ubiquitous Eatons Catalog the "junior sizes" of both bras and girdles were marked with a "star"

Also, I dated a Canadian fore a few years.
She was a late birth in a large family, and was the first girl.

When we compared the schools we went to. Both of us in public schools, her in Ontario, myself in Virginia, both in the 1970s there were some stark differences. Including the dress cod. They were not allowed to wear jeans. Where I went to school, Jeans for both genders were totally normal and the girls were starting to wear them tight. Fairly often you could see the leg bands of panty girdles, and sometimes a front panel would be visible through a tee shirt. especially a white one and if you could see the entire white bra, which was common, look closely you would see a girdle as well.

Even under skirts panty girdles were somewhat common and some girls still wore OBGs under their skirts or dresses.
Back then the specific fabric used in pantyhose was not as technically developed as now.
As my girlfriend explained it, "no one likes \it when you are walking to class with just enough and not more than enough time to get there and the waistband in your pantyhose just dissolves. "

My girlfriend went to public school in Ontario and they still had a strict dress code even then .

A couple of her older brothers had saved their "student handbook" that they were given on the first day of each new school year.

they both let her see those old handbooks just to help her realize how much things had changed in just 10 years

The two longest sections were the dress codes for both genders Since they were boys they ignored on the girls dress code


Surprisingly the girls dress code Gradually phased out the requirement that girls wear girdles gradually

In 1965-1966 school year the change from girdles required to "recommended" was for freshman girls
1n 1966-67 the change was applied to freshman and sophomores
in 1967-68 Freshmen sophomores and juniors and the elaborate chat that showed the "fitting information" based on height weight figure "type" and waist to hip ratio disappeared.
That was also the first year girls were allowed to wear slacks

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