Okay, dumb question, but... why did they need drawers at all?  Chemise, layers 
of petticoats, and long skirts -- everything totally obscured, so why bother 
with drawers?

Dede O'Hair

--- On Wed, 9/14/11, Kim Baird <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
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