Thinking About Things Thursday
(especially super-strength Sunday)
I promise to get over myself and my alliterative titles pretty soon.
But women readers, did you ever have underpants with the days of the week written on them? I will admit that I did, and they weren’t called panties, they were called “Days of the Week Undies.”
They came in a plastic pouch and were colored numerous pastel shades with two kittens frolicking in the area of the pudendum.
They were of cheap, cheap quality (oxymoron) and in just a few short weeks of wearing them I had to struggle with the drooping drawer syndrome due to stretched out elastic.
They also caused me great concern if I couldn’t find a day.
Where is Wednesday? I can’t wear Thursday on Wednesday because something awful would happen. I can’t wear Tuesday on Wednesday because they’re in the wash.
I had a love/hate relationship with these undies and when Friday literally fell apart I cried.
For some reason I must have gone bare ass on Sunday, since Sunday ended up in the best condition.
Sunday showed the kittens going into a house carrying little pocketbooks and wearing hats. Sunday was pink and my favorite pair. It was the last pair to be thrown out – outlasting the other 6 pairs as if it had been constructed from Kryptonite.
Other than a variety of accessories, the kittens wore no clothing.
I remember thinking how strange it was that I was wearing undies that had kittens on them who weren’t wearing any undies.
No undies would have been fine if the kittens hadn’t been anthropomorphized into furry children playing ball on Saturday; hanging out laundry on Monday and doing homework on Tuesday, setting the table on Thursday.
They could sport umbrellas, shoes, boots, hats, scarfs, pocketbooks, roller skates or bows around their necks…but no undies.
Obviously, from the amount of detail and memories I can dredge up from these kitty undies of old, they made quite an impression on me.
I still wonder though, what was up with Sunday?
posted by mary bishop | 10:11 AM
17 Comments:
Hi MB:
It's so funny that you should bring this up!
I've had my lingerie store for 13 years now, and for the first 10 of those years, we sold those panties! The only reason we don't have them now is that the manufacturer decided to stop making them.
Ours were of excellent quality cotton, and they were called "Never on Sunday" panties, as there were only six of them in the little plastic package, for Monday through Saturday, but none for Sunday.
I remember wearing the days of the week panties as a child......but the ones we carried were for adult women.
We sold them like crazy! And every women who bought them loved to discuss them......either remembering having them as a little girl, or her habits of wearing them........some would only wear the pant with the correct day on it. Others could not care less......and would pull a pant out of their drawer and wear it, no matter which day it was!
Each lady had a tale to tell about these panties.....and some of them were very funny!
Since they were discontinued, we have had MANY requests for them. I wish we could still get them! They are QUITE a conversation piece!
Have a great day!
Hi Linda! What a cute name, "Never on Sunday" - how about you find another manufacturer to make them? I think they'd sell like crazy.
I know I'd buy some just for the nostalgia and fun of it all.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who has fond and interesting memories about my undies of old! Stay cool Linda, and thanks for stopping by.
heck who needs another manufacturer when you have inkjet iron ons. :) make your own.
I did have a set as a child as well - but don't remember them all that well. guess they didn't make a lasting impression. :)
but Linda... OH my GOD the Independant lingerie store STILL EXISTS????! :) I remember as a young teen, my mother would take me to a store on LI (near where we lived) called Alan's Always, and bras still came in boxes like ties. :) ANd that is where i got all of my bras. Especially when i jumped from a B to a D in 3 months around age 14 or 15. And now of course finding a good quality bra that fits well, and someone who knows how to fit them is insane... I dream about the custom bra store mentioned in a strip of "wapsi square" an online comic strip where the main character is 4'11" and wears a 32F. :) she goes to a store where mechanical engineers designed boned struts for the bras... I want to go there :) (my that was a tangent :) )
Yes, Ilanna, we still exist....but not easily! It's a struggle!! All the little Mom and Pop shops are getting gobbled up! But none of the big boys offer the kind of service that we do....as you remember from years ago!
Here's our website, if you want to take a peek!
www.firm-foundations.com
I'm going there right now! :)
Btw mary - for your amusement :)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/03/mg.thu/index.html
I just get such a kick out of the picture that goes with the article. {snicker}
Ilanna's Boobs Meet Linda's Lingerie Store on Bishop's Blog
I like the sound of that headline!
Great news on Lamont's lead in the Ct Senate Primary Race!!!!!
Go Ned Go!
Bye Bye Joe!
I'm one of those girls who longed to have day of the week undies but instead I always had the blue light specials form kfarts. There was a time though when I went commando and my family would tell me horrible things to make sure I'd never go pantyless.
Pg - When Linda finds a maker for days of the week panties, you'll have to splurge on a week's worth to make up for when you were a little girl.
Going commando...well, that's pleasant on a hot day with a long gauze skirt, kind of what I'm wearing or not wearing now ;-)
Are you sure that house the lil kittens were going to on Sunday wasn't a church? The hats would be the giveaway ...
I once had a girlfriend who wore days of the week underpants (she hated when I called them that) and she didn't have a pair for Sunday, either.
I loved Sundays.
Well...this is funny as ever...watching my mom, (Linda), talking about days of the week underpants on MB's blog.
Oh happy day!
By the way...I never wore days of the week underpants...but my cup size once DID go from a B to a D!
Ok...no it didn't...
I just can't relate to lingerie talk.
But I adore that my mom comes here and has you to read every day MB :)
Bradley
The Egel Nest
Bradley is right.........he never wore Days of the Week panties.....but he DID wear Superman Underoos!!
Remember those???? How cute!!!
Love,
Linda
I don't think I ever had days-of-the-week undies, but it's the kind of thing that I would have loved when I was younger...I'd love them now, too, but the idea that my underwear would say things to me, like 'nope, can't wear me today, I'm yesterday's undies'...well, I think it'd drive me mad. Kind of like the friend I stayed with the last half of my month in July, who had some day of the week towels hanging up in her kitchen...but only Monday through Thursday. I never quite found a way to ask where the other days went.
That is strange - acording to the movie When Harry Met Sally, they did not make Sunday days of the week underpants... you know, because of God.
Strange.
I cannot believe movies lie to me...
Horrors of it all Nilbo if I was wearing a church over my girl parts! Hmmm now you have me thinking...
You are pretty funny...got me going already on your Sunday comment!
Bradley - I love you, I love your mom, I love undies...it all works....and maybe Ilanna will find a bra for her puppies!
El G - those old fashioned embroidered dish towels etc. go for a fortune of eBay now. How did thes e women have time to embroider when most of the "conveniences" we have today didn't exist then? Makes you wonder.
Linda, forever and ever, I will picture Bradley in underoos...hysterical!!!!
Kim - maybe because the home owner didn't cook Fri. - Sun. like me!
I've got it so good now, that usually husband makes so many wonderful dishes on the weekend I don't have to cook during the week either.
JDJ - maybe the Undie Manufacturer decided that it wasn't a good idea to go to church bare ass...but I definitely had Sunday undies.
Maybe an agnostic company?
I didn't even know that line was in that movie...aren't you smart and hello dear friend!
linda you rock!
mb i never had days of the week undies.
i did have barbie underoos.
:)
Jackie, Barbie underoos were quite the thing. Now I can imagine you and Bradley in your underoos!
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