| I was a small child and entered the Grammar School for Girls in Barrow just a few days after my eleventh birthday. The first day we had games was a nightmare. We all had to have a shower in what now reminds me of a car wash... a long space with jets of water seeming to gush in from either side. Maybe that is a poor memory playing tricks, but what is not a trick was this... as we undressed I became very aware that some of the other girls did not wear a vest... some needed things called bras which I had only seen in our washing basket and felt were very rude things... and to make matters worse, I was the only girl in the year wearing an article called a liberty bodice over my vest.
Does any one else born in my year 1956 recall those and did they wear one to secondary school... and is my theory that they are the reason I had a flat chest for so long substantiated?
Submitted by: Brillobonce
Story location: Barrow in Furness
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