These Colonial-Era Hygiene Habits Will Make You Glad To Be Living In Modern Times

Superstitions About Underwear

Another false belief that might’ve contributed to general uncleanliness in the colonial era was the belief that underwear was capable of absorbing impurities from the human body. This idea that good underwear could somehow soak up bad things on the body certainly didn’t make many colonists cleaner and probably contributed to poor overall hygiene.