On 1/18/2012 6:35 PM, hhalb94...@aol.com wrote:
Women only wearing white because it was pure and they didn't want to be thought of as a floosie is, I think, a modern romantic view, not actual history.
White corsets and underclothing were also status symbols to some extent--they showed the wearer could afford to keep them clean and if they became too grubby to clean well, to replace them. This did not mean they were necessarily visible to anyone but a husband, a female family member (who might help her daughter, sister, etc., to dress), a lady's maid, a laundress, or a dressmaker who fitted dresses over her client's corset and underclothes.
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