| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Woollies in West Ealing | |
| Posted by: | Alan Brainsby | |
| Date/Time: | 05/11/09 23:17:00 |
| What are these 'burkha shops' of which you speak? They would be shops that sell burkhas, much as dress shops sell dresses. ...'corsetieres' are lingerie manufacturers, not corset-makers." ... I suppose it depends on one's dictionary but corsetiere is the feminine form of the French word corsetier, much as blonde and blond may be applied to fair-haired persons of female and male sex. As Rigby and Peller were both females then perhaps they chose the term "corsetiers" as an anglicized form, though obviously corsetieres was available, or through pure ignorance. Corsetier(e)s make undergarments, not necessarily only corsets, or they may fit them and sell them. Indeed R&P sell Vollers corsets which is why they can be styled corsetiers. They also have a Royal Warrant from the Queen. Regarding my Adonic form, well nearly but not quite. I do not require either a corset nor even a truss. I am still a size M for clothes so I don't occupy one and a half seats on a bus, or ever had a "Speak Your Weight" weighing machine say "One at a time, please" to me. |