1891 Underclothing Machinist

[gaygirl]

In the 1891 Census my grandmother is living in  Fulham and working at home with her mother and two sisters as Underclothing Machinists.  I wonder what they were sewing??
How I wish I had known about this fact while she was alive but now I will never know!!

[*Sandra*]

http://www.tudorlinks.com/treasury/articles/viewvictunder2.html

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/c/corsets-and-bustles-1880-1890-from-over-structured-opulence-to-the-healthy-corset/

Sandra

[Cas (stallc)]

In the 1891 Census my grandmother is living in  Fulham and working at home with her mother and two sisters as Underclothing Machinists.  I wonder what they were sewing??
How I wish I had known about this fact while she was alive but now I will never know!!

Guess we all needed underwear back in the day!😄