What are Comfortables?
Oct. 6th, 2020 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogA talk with a professor reminded me of this 1858 ad for the Kenosha Water-Cure that I turned up while researching Pike Creek.
The ad notes that that "invalids will bring six crash towels, two cotton or linen sheets, a flannel blanket, and two comfortables."
What are comfortables in this context? Underwear? Something else?
The ad notes that that "invalids will bring six crash towels, two cotton or linen sheets, a flannel blanket, and two comfortables."
What are comfortables in this context? Underwear? Something else?
