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<p>[QUOTE="scoutshouse, post: 932954, member: 267"]Nor I, obviously lol</p><p><br /></p><p>I think dusters (of that era) were a kind of apron for physical or "athletic" escapades, like cycling or driving an auto-mobile.. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Duster_coat_used_by_one_of_the_Younger_Brothers.jpg/220px-Duster_coat_used_by_one_of_the_Younger_Brothers.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><i>In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, both men and women wore dusters to protect their clothes when riding in open <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile" rel="nofollow">motorcars</a> on the dirt roads of the day.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duster_(clothing)#cite_note-Picken-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duster_(clothing)#cite_note-Picken-1" rel="nofollow">[1] wiki</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Earlier they were used by cowboys on the range[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scoutshouse, post: 932954, member: 267"]Nor I, obviously lol I think dusters (of that era) were a kind of apron for physical or "athletic" escapades, like cycling or driving an auto-mobile.. [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Duster_coat_used_by_one_of_the_Younger_Brothers.jpg/220px-Duster_coat_used_by_one_of_the_Younger_Brothers.jpg[/IMG] [I]In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, both men and women wore dusters to protect their clothes when riding in open [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile']motorcars[/URL] on the dirt roads of the day.[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duster_(clothing)#cite_note-Picken-1'][1] wiki[/URL][/I] Earlier they were used by cowboys on the range[/QUOTE]
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