Underwear Haiku
Posted on 10.08.06 by lucia @ 1:46 pm

Hand Knit Underwear


Hand knit underwear
was once a necessity:
kept a body warm.


The thought of knitting underwear by hand just makes me shudder. It was the depression; the alternative was to shiver!


From “Knitting and Home Crafts Magazine”, December 1936.


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  1. Oh it’s still a necessity! You know that set would really be a welcome knit come January in Chicagoland when those Artic winds blow.

    Comment by Dee — 10/8/2006 @ 8:20 pm

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