Talk about Knickers

Bewilderment as to why you buy a pair on knickers or pair of underpants since they are aparently only one garment and not two of anything? We delve into the past to discover the origins and then all is reavealed, I do not mean like certain female celebrities either. In days of old it would appear that ladies wore covering upon their legs beneath the outer garments. The two leg coverings only fastened at the waist and thus were in actual fact two seperate parts. Yes girls, crotchless knickers were in vogue long before this century.  The same can be said for underpants in that men wore leg coverings that again only fastened at the waist thus a pair was needed one for each leg.

Knickers is a UK word for the under clothing worn on the lower half of a female, in the US they are more commonly called panties.

Well knickers come in all sizes and we are not talking body sizes, more the amount of coverage that each affords. The largest area of coverage is with bloomers which incidentely got there name from a Amelia Bloomer. Not that I can envisage many of you younger women to wear them, many of the older generation did although the number id dwindling. The smallest area covered is by the G string. As I began to write my time machine stopped working so I could not go back and discover to true etymology behing the name. Does it relate to the G string of a violin? Is it perhaps a girdle string? The last offering is from a word for a garment worn by plain injuns in the US? You select the one you prefer the sound of.

Is the g-string a thong or are they different, to many they are one and the same. Now the word thong is easier to find it's root, since it comes from the old English thwong, meaning a leather cord.