But first must be drawn on the silk or stockinette knickerbockers which in the 1910 woman replaced the piteously laughable drawers of the Victorian period.

Then the suspenders clutched the rims of the stockings with an arrangement of nickel and rubber which no _man_ would have tolerated for its inefficiency but would have thrown back in the face of the shopman and have been charged with assault.

In times of stress, at public meetings the suspenders would release the stockings from their hold, and the latter roll about the ankles of the embarrassed pleader for Woman's Rights ("Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow," and first of all throttle the modiste, thought Vivie).
Then there was the camisole that concealed the corset and had to be "pinned" in with safety pins.

The knickerbockers might not seek the aid of braces; but they must be kept up by an elastic band.

Over the camisole, in 1910, came a blouse, pernickety and shiftless about its waist fastening; and finally a hobble skirt, chiefly kept up by safety pins, and so cut below as to hamper free movement of the limbs as much as possible.
Day-boots often had as many as twenty-one buttons--and, mind you, not _sham_, buttons, as I used to think, out of swagger; but every button demanded entrance into a practicable button hole.