'Sewn in' for winter ??

[ThrelfallYorky]

Erato, I think the idea was to add extra layers to the inside of the vest? (I was only a young child when the old lady answered my question)
And I agree with CarolA3 ( not for the first time)

[mazi]

I am sat here occasionally watching the Tour of Britain,  (they are getting very wet), I have my box of tissues, my cough mixture, my lemsip etc.
Does anyone think red flannel and goose grease will work, the NHS has run out of ideas 

Mike

[Erato]

Maybe not completely unknown in North America.
https://thelibrary.org/lochist/periodicals/bittersweet/fa80b.htm   (Section 14)

Well, maybe in the Ozarks ....

"I can remember hanging my dad's union suit out in the winter and they'd freeze dry!"

I do recall bringing in the frozen laundry off the line.  The sheets would come in like pieces of plywood.

[familydar]

Sorry to disappoint everyone but the bottom halves of the sewn in underwear had flaps/access hatches 

[Ruskie]

Sorry to disappoint everyone but the bottom halves of the sewn in underwear had flaps/access hatches 

Not 1l2e's according to this:

.... Up until I was 13 years old she sewed on a diaper instead of underwear, so this would be where all my 'waste' pile up.....

Just curious 1l2e ..... How was your "waste" removed from the sewn in "diaper"?
How often was it cleaned or changed (and by whom) and how big was the pile allowed to get?

[Mike in Cumbria]

"Leash"
"Diaper"
"Paddling"

When you say London, do you mean London England?

[ThrelfallYorky]

....Let's all go off and look at another thread, shall we? We seem to be getting rather too "sewn in" to this....

[groom]

"Leash"
"Diaper"
"Paddling"

When you say London, do you mean London England?

I did wonder that as well, Mike. How many Londoners would say diaper - they are nappies?     

If, as suspected, we are being wound up, it might have been easier to believe if the dates were the 1940s rather than 1970s.           

[Mike in Cumbria]

it might have been easier to believe if the dates were the 1940s rather than 1970s.         

Up until the point of the ridiculous details.