From 8-year old Hilda’s diary:
Tante Esther was here for lunch today. I had a pretty new lace dress for dancing school. She felt all over it and said, “It is very lovely but is your underwear also nice and clean?” I was awfully mad. I yelled at her, “Of course it is, I put on clean underwear every day, sometimes twice a day if I change my dress when company comes to the house.” Then she said that I am right to be so clean and she said it is very important to have clean underwear because you never know when you are going to be run over in the street and then how shameful it would be to be taken to the hospital and have all the doctors and nurses see us in soiled underwear.