Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

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Gentlemen, you may wish to look away now. Be warned. Consider it a ‘spoiler alert’ …

Ladies, I have a hankering for new knickers. In fact, you could say I have a need for them. Gone are the days when knicker elastic could be purchased by the yard and, with the deft application of a safety pin, be threaded through to replace elastic so tired it had given up and gone to sleep… frequently causing embarrassment or severe contortionism as you tried to unobtrusively hitch the offending garment back into place whilst smiling in sweet unconcern. No, these days the elastication is part of said garment and once it has given up the ghost there is little that can be done. It is either part of the garment itself… at which point the whole thing just sags … or is ‘bonded’ to the waistband… at which point…