#skinners

Ainslie Skinner - The Harrowing - Fawcett - 1982

Nowadays, a thief would be more likely to go for a cellphone or a laptop, but in the 1800s clothes might have been the most valuable things many people possessed. There were street markets given over to selling used garments, often still filthy from their last owners, and the courts were full of people being prosecuted for stealing an overcoat, a pair of boots, or a pair of stockings. Thieves would steal clothes by harvesting them from washing lines (‘snowing’), breaking into a person’s home, or through highway robbery. Gangs would pounce on washerwomen taking clothes to drying grounds and steal their laundry baskets. The most interesting were the ‘skinners’, kindly women who lured well-dressed children into an alley, then proceeded to strip them of their clothes and boots before sending them off in just their underwear.

Série Skins

Eh, just feelin' pretty good in my work clothes. Lol. Been a bit since I've felt confident enough to actually start uploading more because I gained a good bit of weight back.

Joseph A. Pelletier, A.A. - God Speaks at Garabandal - Assumption - 1970

Ainslie Skinner - Mind's Eye - Secker & Warburg - 1980