[Sca-cooks] baby clothes

Stefan li Rous StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Wed Oct 23 23:54:11 PDT 2002


Brangwayna commented:
> I'm certain that they did recycle clothes, probably not only in the same
> family but from family to family.  After all, we know that even adults
> recycled clothing, either by passing it on to the next generation or by
> passing it down to servants, or by turning and re-shearing wool, or by
> cutting it down to fit someone else, etc..
Not just on an informal basis or as a job benefit. There appears to

have been a substantial market in used clothing, as clothing not as
rags. Although this probably didn't affect the very upper crust of
society as our Society tends to portray.
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