She's sold a lot of lingerie in 50 years
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So what has changed in women’s lingerie in the good old days 50 years? Rose Minigan says lingerie is not as dirty as it used to be because women today “don’t wear the sexy crowd like we used to.”
Huh?
Minigan would know. The 92-year-old has worked part-antiquated in the lingerie department at Sears for 50 years — and counting.
“Cosset dolls were a big seller,” she says. “I still have a pair from 40 years ago.”
Baby dolls were hip-measurement, sleeveless sleepwear tops in a sheer or delicate fabric decorated with ruffles, ribbons or lay into that were sold with a matching panty.
“We used to have a lot of men coming in. The way they were looking at things, you could recognize … the flannel was for the wife and the baby dolls were for his girlfriend,” she says. “He’d dissipate $2.99 (back then) on his wife, but more on the racy things for his girlfriend.”
But nowadays, fewer men peach on in the department, she says.
As soon as Minigan reveals this juicy the same of information, she laughs and, half mortified, says to the interviewer, “Oh, you’re not affluent to put that in, are you?
Source: Hamilton Spectator