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Sewing "Back Then" Where Did They Find The Time? Candide 05-27-2006
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Posted by Joy Beeson on May 28, 2006, 6:38 pm
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> a strong hunch no self respecting little boy would even touch the garment.

Let alone consent to wear gowns until he's old enough to go to school!
Re-enactors sometimes get flack from the "gentle guests" for putting
their baby boys in "dresses" -- but how practical a gown is for a
child that hasn't been housebroken yet!

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Posted by Candide on May 28, 2006, 7:46 pm





> wrote:
>
> > a strong hunch no self respecting little boy would even touch the
garment.
>
> Let alone consent to wear gowns until he's old enough to go to school!
> Re-enactors sometimes get flack from the "gentle guests" for putting
> their baby boys in "dresses" -- but how practical a gown is for a
> child that hasn't been housebroken yet!
>
> Joy Beeson

True, true. That and short pants which are far more economical in terms
of time for wee boys than hemming or buying new every time they grow
another inch or two.

Or course "dresses" served another purpose back then, with such high
infant mortality rates, it almost didn't "pay" to run up sex specific
clothing at least until the child had reached toddler or in some cases
just before starting school age.

Candide



Posted by Fey on May 30, 2006, 5:38 am
In the old days (early 19th century and before) boys were "breeched"
ie put into trousers at about 5-6 years of age. Until then, boy and
girls both wore similar clothing - frocks, had long curly hair etc.
This I think was probably more the case in well-to-do families and also
marked the transition of the boy from the nursery to the schoolroom.
The girls would then have a governess and the boys, while sharing a
governess for some lessons, would also have a tutor (male) to teach
them things considered suitable only for men - Latin, Greek, swordplay
etc.


Posted by Kathleen on May 28, 2006, 10:38 pm
Candide wrote:

> Oh but I love a nice clean pinny! Draw the line at the heavily frou-frou
> types that seem to invite frivolity though. Aprons are a great way to
> keep neat while hoovering/dusting/housework and much easier to run
> through the ironer than a housedress! Now if one could only get little
> children back into the habit of wearing pinafores, laundry day would be
> a breeze! Well, one might get away with it for little girls, but have a
> strong hunch no self respecting little boy would even touch the garment.

Oh sure they would. My son is a boy through and through and he's all
for anything that saves him having to change clothes. He's perfectly
willing to pull an old t-shirt, a smock or scrubs over his clothes,
provided someone reminds him to do so.

Just tweak the styling details and call it a haz-mat protector.

Kathleen


Posted by Phaedrine on May 28, 2006, 11:18 pm

> In cities, people sent
> their laundry out -- and people didn't dirty a tenth as many clothes
> as we do now.

Now, they try to convince us that nothing is clean unless it's sprayed
or wiped with an antibacterial something or other.

A friend of mine had a neighbor that had a bucket of soapy water on her
front porch. She made her children and everyone wash their feet before
they came in or they could not enter the house. It was quite sad
actually... severe OCD.

> ...Mom once told the story of how she suddenly realized
> that she no longer had to wear an apron -- now that she had a Bendix,
> a housedress was just as easy to wash as an apron. (I wore aprons
> when first married anyhow: for the sake of the pockets.)

Oh I just love aprons and smocks and wear them frequently. Maybe I am
just sloppy. ;)

--
I fear me you but warm the starved snake,
Who, cherished in your breasts, will sting your hearts. (Henry VI, Shakespeare)

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