Thursday, February 2, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
Gleanings
Gleanings from Old Shaker Journals by Clara Endicott Sears
Reading this on line as part of the great amount of research I'm doing for my current novel.
Yesterday I completed a couple of hours on the subject of New England women's underwear in the nineteenth century. A lot more involved than it may sound not just because of changing fashion trends over those decades, but because of the differences among the classes. I want to know what the poor and rural young woman had going on under her skirt because it is so important to me that my historical fiction be quite historically accurate. Most of the information available is, not surprisingly, about what was under the abundant skirts and hoops of the wealthy class. Fun work, but frustrating, almost gets my panties in a bunch. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
On a related note, I am also trying to figure out what term residents of New England had for the outhouse in the latter half of the 1800's. I doubt they referred to it as the outhouse, and think privy is too British, but haven't seen any other references. Please respond if you have any ideas.
1850's split bloomers
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