Taboo : Will he ever wear a white shirt?

It seems rather farfetched that (in 1814) neither Delaney nor his servant Brace appears to own a single white shirt.



Send her to the snakes!

I'll take "Things No One Cares About" for $400, please, Alex.

Considering how filthy, Smokey from burning coal, and muddy it is, It would be a black shirt in no length of time. Clothes were not machine made then and were mostly homespun cloth.

I don't know everything. Neither does anyone else

Bleaching linen to be white was expensive, laundering it to keep it white was expensive. Delaney couldn't give a Brace likely hasn't the means.

Will he ever be clean?

The Long Walk stops every year, just once.

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It seems rather farfetched that (in 1814) neither Delaney nor his servant Brace appears to own a single white shirt.

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Farfetched? Or historically accurate?
How often do you think people bathed or did laundry in those days? The answer is, not nearly as often as we do now.