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<p>[QUOTE="Mansons2005, post: 263555, member: 121"]you don't mention a width, but my mother had a number of long cloths such as this that were used as "clothes covers" - when her maid laid out her clothes for the evening she would lay them on a chair and lay this cloth over them (originally intended to keep soot, dust, etc. off the fabrics)</p><p><br /></p><p>of course, that was a (very) long time ago.............haven't seen it done for over 70 years now.............</p><p><br /></p><p>Hers were monogrammed in "portrait" so they could not be used for anything else after they no longer used.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mansons2005, post: 263555, member: 121"]you don't mention a width, but my mother had a number of long cloths such as this that were used as "clothes covers" - when her maid laid out her clothes for the evening she would lay them on a chair and lay this cloth over them (originally intended to keep soot, dust, etc. off the fabrics) of course, that was a (very) long time ago.............haven't seen it done for over 70 years now............. Hers were monogrammed in "portrait" so they could not be used for anything else after they no longer used.[/QUOTE]
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