“Gerard vanderleun on August 14, 2019 at 2:23 pm said:

Not a decent pocket to be had.”

Hahaha … I think he’s quoting from that old Fred Astaire movie where Astaire and his college football player buddy take over a dressmaking outfit in France. (Pretty awful film, but about 10 minutes of worthwhile entertainment including Astaire on the piano, if you can busy yourself otherwise for most of it.)

Are you kidding me? The pockets there aren’t just decent, they’re FABULOUS! They are worn under the dress and accessed through discreet slits. You could fit a chihuahua in there! Maybe two.

Speaking of improvements, my uncle told me that the farmhouse he grew up in didn’t get electricity until the late 1930s.

_What_ facilities??

My closest highschool friend lived out in the country. A neighbor of hers died. The first thing his wife did after his death was to have running water piped into the house. No more outhouse.
One of the first houses I lived in after I was married…had an outhouse for about a month. I got to watch them put the well in…very interesting process! The parents of the owner lived across the road…still had an outhouse. What’s more, she had severe health problems…had to have a night “pot” which her husband emptied in the AM.
So…in 1830, what facilities were available?
I remember in France when we were there, public facilities were holes in the ground. With a footprint on each side for guidance, I guess. With all the spread on that dress plus the opening for the under garments, that might work I suppose.

I am _so_ glad I live now!!

“Gail on August 14, 2019 at 1:48 am said:

My thought on this is totally gauche….All I can think about is how is she going to use the facilities?”

Ha. The average guy’s are probably more tacky, while having nothing to do with removing layers for such reasons as you imagine. Daunting …

Passed on October 20, 1774 the Articles of Association
sometimes also called the Continental Association

Full Text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Continental_Association

2. That we will neither import nor purchase any Slave imported after the first day of December next; after which time we will wholly discontinue the Slave Trade, and will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our Commodities or Manufactures to those who are concerned in it.

unless they erased it from your history… you would know the USA was never founded in slavery, quite not… from Jeffersons notes on a copy of the constitution, to this document… we used to know..

anyway… thats what i got today on slaves…

oh? you mean Sleeves

Nevermind… – emily lattella…