Ohio cultivator, December 1, 1861
Under Clothing for Winter
Ladies seem
to have a proclivity to being uncomfortable because it is the fashion; though
we acknowledge, to a decided movement in the right direction, in thick shoes,
water proof cloaks, and close sleeves to dresses. But one thing more if you
please. the hoop skirt is a blessing in holding the long dress from the feet,
and giving the limbs fair play, but they leave body and limbs too much exposed
to cold; this may be remedied by wearing flannel drawers over the cambric ones,
made of the dark opera flannel, and lined with canton flannel. Ladies at the
east do this through all the severity of winter, and find one pair of such
flannel drawers equal in warmth and protection to a half dozen loose, heavy
skirts, which are expensive and require extra labor to keep them in order.
Of course
the fashionable belle who delights in embroideries, will not heed my advice,
but the house-wife who goes to hen-house and barn-yard, who milks, makes
butter, and goes to market; washes and irons—will only have to make one trial
of close flannel drawers reaching down to the top of her boots, to find they
are exceedingly comfortable, and great preventives to neuralgia and toothache
and rheumatism. I have worn them for years, and wonder how any woman can keep
warm without them.
F.D.G
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