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So I've been reading about historical clothes for a year and a half now and it just occurred to me today that in movies where women say they're going to go slip into something more comfortable they're probably taking their girdles off.

That or taking mechanically complicated birth control measures, one would suppose. Guesses?

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[rydra_wong]

I've always tended to vaguely suspect the latter -- diaphragm/cervical cap, etc..

But now you've got me wondering whether the line was ever used in reality.

TV Tropes covers the fictional usages (WARNING FOR TV TROPES):

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SlipIntoSomethingMoreComfortable