Victorian women NEEDED split drawers. They wore a long chemise over the top of the drawers, and a corset laced up tightly on top of that, so the only way to "drop a penny" was to have the drawers split. You just couldn't get at them to pull them down from the waist.
Kim -----Original Message----- From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On Behalf Of WorkroomButtons.com Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 9:38 AM To: Historical Costume Subject: [h-cost] Update on split drawers (fascinating, I know...) On the slim chance that anyone is following along... Yes, we found another pair of split drawers in the the vast Reed Homestead (Townsend Historical Society) collection. They definitely belonged to an adult, and like the child-sized pair... well worn and heavily mended. --- On Thu, 8/11/11, WorkroomButtons.com <westvillagedrap...@yahoo.com> wrote: Re: drawers So far, we have found one pair of split drawers in the vast attic-sized pile, er... collection. Definitely worn by a child. Were they actually worn by grown women? Dede _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
