Spotlight on the Sam Houston Center: Young Ladies in Southeast Texas, about 1905-1920
This is an ongoing series featuring historic images housed at the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center in Liberty. View more images online in the Texas Digital Archive: https://tsl.access.preservica.com/tda/sam-houston-center/. For more information visit: https://www.tsl.texas.gov/shc.
Clyde and Thelma See glass plate negatives collection, 1995.112-98. SHC, TSLAC.
Can you imigine wearing all those clothes in our Texas heat? No a/c or fans or anthing to help and covered in layers of cloth from neck to foot. How did they survive? They were somehow aclimated to the heat but I just can’t imagine it myself.
I have had the same thoughts many times, not only women dressed in the manner of the photo, but men wearing suits. Though it would still be pretty darn hot and uncomfortable, men and women back then were not as fat as we are today which would help, if only a little, as far as dealing with the heat.
Can you imigine wearing all those clothes in our Texas heat? No a/c or fans or anthing to help and covered in layers of cloth from neck to foot. How did they survive? They were somehow aclimated to the heat but I just can’t imagine it myself.
I have had the same thoughts many times, not only women dressed in the manner of the photo, but men wearing suits. Though it would still be pretty darn hot and uncomfortable, men and women back then were not as fat as we are today which would help, if only a little, as far as dealing with the heat.