Costume Historian

https://costumehistorian.blogspot.com/2023/06/what-is-rail-or-night-rail.html If we ignore the fact that Dame Partlet was a term first used ...

  On the March 25th 1645 John Willoughby (1571-1658) of Leyhill, in the county of Devon made “a particular note of all my linen.” Two mont...

  There has been a tendency to regard making do and mending, as something specific to the Second World War, but people have always mended an...