“A newspaper reported that I spent $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn’t spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.” – Jackie Kennedy
As I looked at my Macy’s statement…a bill for basically the only thing that I buy there, Calvin Klein bras…I noticed that the line item said “Innerwear”.
Innerwear? Surely, I thought, that’s some kind of corporate typo and they really meant to say underwear…but no, apparently innerwear is a legitimate word. And, according to an online dictionary that I rushed over to, it means “clothing, such as lingerie, designed to be worn next to the skin”.
Confusingly, when I look up underwear on the same site I get “clothes worn next to the skin, beneath one’s outer clothing”.
Were people sniggering as I walked away and saying, “poor girl, doesn’t know her inner from her under”?
Photos courtesy of the Fashion Spot forums.
