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Bernadette Banner I think talks about this on her YouTube channel, I think. There’s “survivorship bias” in historical clothing where a lot of what we have that’s well preserved is quite small, so it gives the false impression that people were all skinny back in the day. But actually, it’s not that there were more skinny people - it’s that those garments were more likely to survive precisely BECAUSE it was rare for someone to be small enough to wear them!! They were often clothes of young people who outgrew them quickly and because they were too small to let out or remake (unlike larger garments that could be made smaller or reworked into new pieces more easily) they stuck around!
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