Originally Posted by
misseva
It couldn't have been much more unbearable than when I started work in 1954 wearing hose & a girdle and NO air conditioning. It was hard peeling a sweat soaked Playtex girdle off at night.It was the hottest summer on record plus I rode the bus home every night and cooked corn bread for my hubby and we didn't get A/C until 1964. We've come a long way since then.
I remember those days well. However, I never wore a lace up corset (my gm did until she died at age 92), I wore Playtex, floor length dresses with 5-6 petticoats (my gma did), mine were only long mid calf, and didn't ever get rainsoaked or "frozen" in a wet dress with all those petticoats dragging in the puddles and/or snow. We didn't get a/c until 1977 and my gm never did get a/c and died in 1983. Aren't we lucky that life has changed as far a clothing and a/c goes?