Humorous yet shocking, mundane yet intimate – underpants have proved a useful tool for change. Katie Dancey-Downs examines the power of political undercrackers.
The constituency office was empty on the drizzly Saturday morning that artist and theatre maker Lorna Rees strung up her knickers.
‘No-one should be able to photo my pants unless I want them to,’ read the slogan hastily scrawled across the freshly unboxed undies, which had been sewn together into bunting. The banner referred to the ‘anti-upskirting bill’ which Lorna’s member of parliament had delayed in the UK House of Commons the previous day.
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