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Buddha_Bing t1_j9qie76 wrote

Old timey clothes look like they're hella hot. Imagine those dresses in the humid summer.

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FreeQ t1_j9qkagg wrote

They wore heavy wool clothes in the winter because there was no central heating. In the summer months they probably wore lighter linen or cotton clothes

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ex-big_bag_of_dicks t1_j9s9jw8 wrote

In 1976 or so I went to my grandfathers house after he died. He had a suit from when he was a boy wrapped in paper and in a box. It was in perfect condition. It was from his father and was made about 1895. I tried it on, it fit, and it was one of the most uncomfortable things you can imagine. Thick itchy wool, terrible.

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Buddha_Bing t1_j9wp6nn wrote

That's nuts and cool that you have access to your family history. I can't go back that far. But my pops has a crazy story of how when he was a teenager, he and his brother hid in the jungle, living off the land as the Japanese occupied Guam until 1945 when the United States liberated the island. They then asked all the males who would join the armed forces would become automatic citizens and then he joined the Navy.

tl/dr War is hell, but it got you to see the world.

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