Bearbrass: Imagining Early Melbourne by Robyn Annear

Author:Robyn Annear [Annear, Robyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Inc.
Published: 2016-02-19T05:00:00+00:00

It is unfortunately the fashion with many ladies at the present time, to let their children be exposed with bare neck, arms, and legs … In children, especially, the skin should be protected by a just and general clothing, light in summer, warm in winter, with flannel next the surface at all times.

On the subject of men’s apparel, Garryowen wrote that style of dress was an apparent ‘line of demarcation’ between free immigrants and ex-convicts throughout the 1840s. Free men, he wrote, were distinguishable by their ‘heterogenous garb’:

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