Correct! I still don’t understand how they tolerated wearing corsets with all the pilings, the petticoat, the stockings, two chemise, etc. etc. and we haven’t even gotten yet to the beautiful dresses that were also layered. I can’t even imagine what they went through in hot and humid states. Go to Pinterest and see the beautiful garments they wore …I would not last one day in those garments here in our 100+ degree hot weather town. I would literally wilt …I need my refrigerated air. But back then women were women, who strived to look beautiful descent, and with a sense of great modesty.
they changed clothes up to 3 times a day as a partial way of addressing that.
It’s why those Southern belles had parasols, fans, fainting couches and smelling salts. I remember my dear granny still wearing lace-up corsets in the 1940s. When you put your arms around her waist, it felt like a tree trunk.