Just a few clothes to be hung outLooking back now, I am convinced that my mother would have cracked the 100 metres qualifying time for every Olympic Games. What is it with women and the line of washing hung out to dry? Despite the invention of the speedy clothes drier, and most people possessing multiple changes of clothes, the clothes-line hasn’t lost any of its importance for thousands of years. Fashion intimates hung on the clothes line to dry. No neighbour, visitor, or passer-by must ever suspect that this clothes-line hung a knickers.

Source: Irish Independent May 18, 2024 14:14 UTC