On leaving the Wrens, Rozelle Pierrepont became a deck hand on a 100-ton Bermudan cutter, and on her 21st birthday was given a converted ship’s lifeboat in which she explored the coasts of France, Belgium and Holland. On her first solo journey across the channel the rudder snapped, so she sawed up the engine casing with a bread knife and fashioned a new one, lashed up with her suspender belt.
You’re right. A modern suspender belt wouldn’t take the stresses involved.
Wrens’ sussies used to be issue items …
K.R. Lohse – “You’re right. A modern suspender belt wouldn’t take the stresses involved.”
And girls who wear them don’t have such trouble getting married.
The sad thing is that these days she would be pressured to assume the solution to her personal issues was to come out as a lesbian.
Oh, they do,Tim! It’s just that you don’t hear about them until they’re dead.
There will always be people like her. Whether they get obituaries written about them or not is another matter.