Hi All, Back to my Grandmother's notes on clothing. She told me that red flannel absorbed "leakage" so that no stain went through to the nicer petticoats and dress skirt, and did not much show the stain itself. Of course the whites were boiled and scrubbed with lye soap. She still kept a bar of lye soap to use when I was a little girl and would help her wash with the old wringer washer. She told me of the hand operated wringers that pre-dated the electric and of shirts for men and women that buttoned either way and shoes that had no left and right and socks and stockings that had no heel, as we have again now. She taught me so much. Audy.
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