Comments on: Shopping Through the Ages: 1898 http://www.climbingmyfamilytree.com/2011/05/07/shopping-through-the-ages-1898/ One Branch at a Time Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:32:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Debi Austen http://www.climbingmyfamilytree.com/2011/05/07/shopping-through-the-ages-1898/comment-page-1/#comment-1231 Debi Austen Mon, 09 May 2011 17:44:55 +0000 http://www.climbingmyfamilytree.com/?p=2619#comment-1231 I love the folding bathtubs! Especially important after wearing all of those clothes and undergarments in the hot weather – can’t imagine what people must have smelled like back them :-(

]]> By: Jen http://www.climbingmyfamilytree.com/2011/05/07/shopping-through-the-ages-1898/comment-page-1/#comment-1227 Jen Sun, 08 May 2011 02:01:54 +0000 http://www.climbingmyfamilytree.com/?p=2619#comment-1227 It would be SO hot – especially with all of the necessary undergarments too!

]]> By: Jen http://www.climbingmyfamilytree.com/2011/05/07/shopping-through-the-ages-1898/comment-page-1/#comment-1226 Jen Sun, 08 May 2011 02:01:25 +0000 http://www.climbingmyfamilytree.com/?p=2619#comment-1226 It does look like armor, doesn’t it??

]]> By: Heather Roelker http://www.climbingmyfamilytree.com/2011/05/07/shopping-through-the-ages-1898/comment-page-1/#comment-1225 Heather Roelker Sat, 07 May 2011 21:44:07 +0000 http://www.climbingmyfamilytree.com/?p=2619#comment-1225 The clothing from this time period look hotter than heck, but I bet I would look smashing in it! ;)

]]> By: MN Family Historian http://www.climbingmyfamilytree.com/2011/05/07/shopping-through-the-ages-1898/comment-page-1/#comment-1224 MN Family Historian Sat, 07 May 2011 19:47:42 +0000 http://www.climbingmyfamilytree.com/?p=2619#comment-1224 Wow, those catalogs were a riot! The Alaska sweater picture looks more like mail armor from the Middle Ages.

And I love how they proclaim self-heating, folding, bath tubs as “THE GREATEST INVENTION EVER APPLIED TO HOME COMFORT.” I’d never heard of them before. The whole concept sounds like an accident waiting to happen.

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