PC it is a **** name anyway, but just for you, in days gone by garters were used to keep socks and stockings up. They were elastic bands that went around the top of the sock or stocking. Since then it has become a sexy piece of lingerie worn by the girls to keep stockings up or more recent by brides at a wedding where they would wear just one that the groom would remove in full view of all of the bachelors and throw it over his shoulder, the guy who caught it would be the next to marry, like the bouquet that the bride throws to the unmarried girls.
lancelot wrote:PC it is a **** name anyway, but just for you, in days gone by garters were used to keep socks and stockings up. They were elastic bands that went around the top of the sock or stocking. Since then it has become a sexy piece of lingerie worn by the girls to keep stockings up or more recent by brides at a wedding where they would wear just one that the groom would remove in full view of all of the bachelors and throw it over his shoulder, the guy who caught it would be the next to marry, like the bouquet that the bride throws to the unmarried girls.
That's the garters I know.
I thought it was some mythical garters this time.
You're damn right. It is a crappy name. Pity it's the one that got the most votes.
The foundation year is usually presumed to be 1348, although dates from 1344 to 1351 have been proposed. The King's wardrobe account shows Garter habits first issued in the autumn of 1348. Regardless, the Order probably was not established before 1346; its original statutes required that each member already be a knight (what would now be referred to as a knight bachelor) and some of the initial members were only knighted that year.[4]
Various legends account for the origin of the Order. The most popular legend involves the "Countess of Salisbury" (probably either his future daughter-in-law Joan of Kent or her former mother-in-law, Catherine Montacute, Countess of Salisbury). While she was dancing with or near King Edward at Eltham Palace, her garter is said to have slipped from her leg. When the surrounding courtiers sniggered, the king picked it up and tied it to his leg, exclaiming, "Honi soit qui mal y pense," ("Shamed be the person who thinks evil of it."), the phrase that has become the motto of the Order.[5] According to another legend, King Richard I was inspired in the 12th century by St George the Martyr while fighting in the Crusades to tie garters around the legs of his knights, who subsequently won the battle. King Edward supposedly recalled the event in the 14th century when he founded the Order.[4] Another explanation is that the motto refers to Edward's claim to the French throne, and the Order of the Garter was created to help pursue this claim. The use of the garter as an emblem may have derived from straps used to fasten armour.[3]
Medieval scholars have pointed to a connection between the Order of the Garter and the Middle English poem, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". In "Gawain", a girdle, very similar in its sexual undertones to the garter, plays a prominent role. A rough version of the Order's motto also appears in the text. It translates from Middle English as "Accursed be a cowardly and covetous heart."[6]
The old explanation, still the same bit of apparel!
Monty seemed to enjoy it
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