School: Forgney, Ballymahon (roll number 860)
- Location:
- Forgney, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Mrs B. Higgins
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 388
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- (continued from previous page)High laced boots and high buttoned boots were very fashionable. The elastic sided boot was very general too. These had no openings in front, but there were elastic gussets set in at the sides which [?] sufficiently to allow the foot in.
The petticoats were made of flannel, and a woman would wear two or three at a time.
The women used to wash their faces in buttermilk to keep the skin fresh and white.
To wash the face in dew on a May morning would have the same effect.
- Collector
- Irene Finnegan
- Gender
- Female
