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Head-Sherbet-9675 t1_j5m6int wrote

Please someone tell me how the pilgrim/puritan women dealt with hot summers. Were they allowed to change clothes? Take off their top layer? How did they cope? There’s like nothing I can find to answer this specific question at first glance

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Forsaken_Champion722 t1_j6cpsft wrote

I don't have an exact answer for you, although I can say that the north Atlantic region experienced what is called the "little ice age" during that time, so it would have been a bit cooler than it is now. What gets me is when I see pictures of female slaves wearing dresses while picking cotton in the deep south. That must have been unbearable.

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Head-Sherbet-9675 t1_j6eif7m wrote

Right?? Like did they find the clothing itchy?? Uncomfortable? Or were they fine with it?

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Forsaken_Champion722 t1_j6hucae wrote

Now that I think about it, I would say that unless you are a navy seal or something like that, all of us are wimps compared to people back then. Their tolerance for pain and discomfort was far higher than ours.

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