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    Default Under Garments

    I am researching the Withers family from Birmingham who from 1730 to 1830 were Tailors in Smallbrook street.
    Did such Tailors also make and sell underwear, or was that a separate craft and occupation.
    Thank you

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    First, a very warm welcome to Britgen.
    When searching I was struggling to determine what, exactly, was "underwear" at this period and found -
    https://historicromance.wordpress.com...e-18th-century

    What did you have in mind as "underwear"?

    It mentions "small clothes". I wonder of this is the origin of "smalls" sometimes used to refer to underwear today.
    "dyfal donc a dyr y garreg"

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