Pamela said:

"Did anyone watch Frontier House on PBS? I was amazed that the modern women
actually wore their corsets everyday. I would have thought they would have
stopped wearing them daily, which is what I had always thought frontier women
would have done. Why wear them daily when you're out in the wilderness and
you don't see anyone outside of your family for days, if not weeks?"

Yes, I thought that was odd too, especially since no one seemed to be worried about the lack of period accuracy in walking around in their underwear all the time!

Manda

Manda Vranic
Exhibit and Outreach Technician
City of Toronto Archives
255 Spadina Road
Toronto, ON  M5R 2V3
(416) 397-0048
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