Eye - 22 April 2011

From pants to park benches

by Eye 22nd April 2011

You and your underwear

The common stereotype of the Quaker is the hat-wearing, oat-selling, peace-loving Friend with staunch values. There’s not much truth in that for current Quakers, you might say, and there’s nothing raunchy about it either. When this popular image was referred to by a guest on the Radio Four show You and Yours, the station received a letter of complaint that eventually found its way into Eye’s inbox.