It wasn’t long ago that the average person only had a few changes of clothes. In the house I grew up in, built in 1904, the closets were only about two feet deep. There were hooks on the back wall to hang clothes on and a shelf above for hats and accessories. A far cry from today’s walk-in closets that are the size of bedrooms.
Indeed - I currently have an old wardrobe which is effectively an "overflow" for me, but was most likely big enough for an adult man decades ago; enough space for half a dozen shirts, a couple of pairs of trousers and a jacket.
It wasn’t long ago that the average person only had a few changes of clothes. In the house I grew up in, built in 1904, the closets were only about two feet deep. There were hooks on the back wall to hang clothes on and a shelf above for hats and accessories. A far cry from today’s walk-in closets that are the size of bedrooms.
Indeed - I currently have an old wardrobe which is effectively an "overflow" for me, but was most likely big enough for an adult man decades ago; enough space for half a dozen shirts, a couple of pairs of trousers and a jacket.
Don’t go inside and shut the door….unless there are fur coats hanging in the back!
😅