Cats are, of course, not so easy to travel with. Miss Browning was on a
journey, as I thought from the quoted text.
==Marjorie Wilser (who routinely travels with 2 cats. . . but never easily!)
> On Dec 17, 2015, at 2:56 PM, Sharon Collier wrote:
>
> Maybe bloomers tied closed at the bottom s
On 12/17/2015 05:56 PM, Sharon Collier wrote:
Maybe bloomers tied closed at the bottom so mice couldn't run up her legs?
I'd have also gotten a cat.
;-)
I agree, but it's possible Miss Browning needed her long bloomers
because she was traveling to places where the accommodations were...dodgy.
On 12/17/2015 05:42 PM, Catherine Walton wrote:
On 17/12/2015 22:28, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
Ah, I understand now. I thought that "mouse-proof" underwear was
underwear that wouldn't be eaten by mice. But apparently Miss
Browning's underwear were meant to mouse-proof the wearer.
Oh -
Historical Costume
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Mouse-proof underwear
On 17/12/2015 22:28, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
> Ah, I understand now. I thought that "mouse-proof" underwear was
> underwear that wouldn't be eaten by mice. But apparently Miss
> Browning's underwe
On 17/12/2015 22:28, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
Ah, I understand now. I thought that "mouse-proof" underwear was
underwear that wouldn't be eaten by mice. But apparently Miss
Browning's underwear were meant to mouse-proof the wearer.
Oh - sorry: I missed the ambiguity.
I hope I haven'
Ah, I understand now. I thought that "mouse-proof" underwear was
underwear that wouldn't be eaten by mice. But apparently Miss
Browning's underwear were meant to mouse-proof the wearer.
On 12/17/2015 02:22 PM, Catherine Walton wrote:
I found the idea of mouse-proof underwear mentioned in - o
I found the idea of mouse-proof underwear mentioned in - of all things -
a cookery book: Elisabeth Luard's "European Peasant Cookery, The Rich
Tradition", (Transworld Publishers Ltd., London, 1986), page 478,
'Buffalo Milk (Hungary)'. It is the introduction to a long quotation
from Ellen Brow
