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Angela Varesano
7/23/72
Mrs. Zahay
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color with small flowers print. Some blouses had a piece of
overlapping material over the buttons in front of the blouse.

(Drawing of blouse collar - round)

Men's clothes consisted mosty of dark suits, derbies (pincho),
and high-button shoes for dress wear. For work were overalls,
smock which isa jacket made of overall material, and boots.
The boots had boot rags inside. Men wrapped their legs with
old flour sacks over the socks as a protection against cold.
They started from the feet and wralpped the cloth up the leg.
All clothes wer patched because you couldn't afford to
throw them away.
Sulfur water ruined the clothes worn in the mines. It
made them yellow. When the man came home from the mines, all
wet and soaked, you had to dry the clothes on the line or behind
the stove.