Just curious. Have a letter written in abt. 1908. It mentions having cloth to make waists for my grandfather. Would this mean shirts or pants? Sarah

Sarah, I have always understood this to mean shirtwaists, which were women's blouses. If I'm mistaken, I hope someone will tell me. Joy Sarah Wasiura wrote: > Just curious. Have a letter written in abt. 1908. It mentions having > cloth to make waists for my grandfather. Would this mean shirts or pants? > Sarah > > ==== GEN-NYS Mailing List ==== > Have you seen the USGenWeb New York Page? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygenweb/ -- mail to: [email protected] Locations of Long Island Friends Meetings: http://www.nyym.org/liqm Outline trees for: HALLOCK, HEAD, PALMER, SELDEN at: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/w/e/a/Joyce-R-Weaver/ USA (northeast): Burnside, Green, Hallock, Head, Merritt, Morris, Palmer, Selden, Weaver./ CANADA (ON/QC): Brown, Clark, Grant, Weaver./ ENGLAND(Lanc.): Hunt, Wall. POLAND (Krasnik, Zaklikow, Lublin): Blumberg, Fogiel, Rozenel./ BELARUS (Wisoke-Litovsk, Brest, Grodno): Feinberg, Vilner, Greenberg, Petrusnitz, Deibach.