AngelaSF wrote:I think your cousin was probably right, Elaine, and wetting ones swimsuit is not all that uncommon. Once my mother told me to just do it, but in my knickers, not my swimsuit. We were on the way home and I was absolutely bursting. I told my mother I did not think I could make it and , to my surprise, she told me just to do it in my knickers. Well, I was so desperate that I did. I was not a lttle girl but 16 at the time. When we were home, my mother said it was nothing to worry about and that on several occasions when she had been desperate she had wet her knickers.
I just thought I would add that during the 19th century this was not uncommon. In those days most women wore full skirts but no undergarments. Of course there were seldom any public facilities. Men peed wherever they wanted whilst women usually found a patch of grass, opened their legs a little, then relieved themselves discreetly.



