Mention of 'Big Girl's Blouse' on Downton Abbey

wiltsman | 21:54 Sun 04th Nov 2012 | Film, Media & TV

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I've just heard some one using the phrase 'Big Girl's Blouse' on Downton Abbey.

Surely this is a late 1960s saying; I think I heard Hylda Baker use it on Nearest and Dearest!

It seemed so out of place to hear it on Downton Abbey though.

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being more common in downmarket British tabloid newspapers such as the Sun and the Mirror. It seems to have been first recorded in the 1960s:

Eli: Go round talking like that, you’ll be hearing from our solicitor.
Nellie: He is our solicitor, you big girl’s blouse.

Nearest and Dearest, Series 2, Episode 1, 1969. This ITV network sitcom starred...

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ludwig

I remember watching an episode of the Waltons which was one of the later ones set after WW2 . Someone described someone else as looking 'sexy'.

It seemed wrong for the period. I thought it was a 60s word.

Dee Sa

I thought it was out of context with the era but surely Jullian Fellowes would have had it researched first, he evn knew the makes of lingerie for that era when Mary/Edith were getting married, so I dont think he would slip up.

Smowball

I can't remember what I was watching recently but the main character was standing near a glass door, and clearly reflected in it were all the camera crew opposite!