Jacobite Shirt origins?

[Pleater]

Muslin? MUSLIN!!!

Hang on - two countries divided by a single language - it can't mean the same thing.

In the UK muslin is a cotton gauze - not exactly a roughy toughy fabric, it would not stand up to my lifestyle - the number of garments I ruined when it was the stuff to use for hippy stuff....

Linen would be spot on - but in that era a shirt was underwear.

A gentleman in the street was considered undressed if he had less than five layers between himself and the air.

[bubba]

pleater, here muslin is a courser fabric than linen and not terribly soft. It's more of a utility fabric and very cheap. It comes in bleached (pure white) and unbleached. If you made underwear out of it you'd chaff REAL bad REAL fast.