AT MY boarding school in Gloucestershire, my housemistress Mrs Tinker, who was a characterful Australian, used to call knickers ‘liners’: “Make sure you put on clean liners, girls!” made us howl. However, my all-time favourite moniker for women’s pants is ‘apple catchers’. A visual epithet with a pastoral nod to the harvest and the burgeoning season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, as well as a significant time in the country sporting calendar, apple catchers also imply extravagant amounts
Sporting smalls
Aug 17, 2023
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