{"id":9667,"date":"2017-09-18T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T01:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erotica-readers.com\/?p=9667"},"modified":"2019-12-17T14:11:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T14:11:57","slug":"when-ladies-wore-open-crotch-drawers-sexy-surprises-from-grandmothers-lingerie-drawer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erotica-readers.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/18\/when-ladies-wore-open-crotch-drawers-sexy-surprises-from-grandmothers-lingerie-drawer\/","title":{"rendered":"When Ladies Wore Open-Crotch Drawers: Sexy Surprises from Grandmother\u2019s Lingerie Drawer"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n One of the chief pleasures of writing a historical novel is discovering the details of daily life in the past so we can recreate the texture and flavor of the time. The clothing of the period is, of course, an essential focus of research to put our characters in proper attire. But because erotica writers carefully undress<\/em> our characters as well, we must also learn exactly the sort of undergarments an impatient lover will encounter for full authenticity.<\/p>\n Most of us know about corsets, petticoats and pantalettes from historical dramas. However, mainstream movies and TV leave out one important aspect of ladies\u2019 drawers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries\u2014they had no crotch. Indeed they were almost completely split from end to end, two free-standing leg tubes held together by little more than a waistband as you see below.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Frederick\u2019s of Hollywood doesn\u2019t even dare to go that far.<\/p>\n I first found out about this unspoken feature of female undergarments of the last two centuries when I was assembling a corset-friendly costume for a boudoir photo session a few years ago. I went to a local lace and antique clothing store called Lacis<\/a> in the hope of finding a pair of old fashioned bloomers. To my delight, I found a pair in exactly my size for a reasonable price pictured in both photographs here. The open crotch was a surprise, but when I put the drawers on, the gap disappeared into a sort of short petticoat. Unless the wearer made an effort to spread the split seam, if you didn\u2019t know, you’d never guess what did–or rather didn’t–lie within.<\/p>\n But of course, the women and men of the 1900s knew. I\u2019ve read in several sources that working-class lovers rarely undressed fully when they had sex in Victorian times. Open-crotch drawers certainly support the logistics of that custom.<\/p>\n