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Not quite. Back in those days it was considered unladylike to use your legs to operate a machine. First sewing machines used hand operated wheel to run, which w
by taktiktook 13y ago
Not quite. Back in those days it was considered unladylike to use your legs to operate a machine. First sewing machines used hand operated wheel to run, which were very hard to use. It was only later people started to use the foot operated ones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jonescs.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jonescs.jpg
- marquis 13y agoLegs in themselves were considered risqué. These sewing machines would also have been covered with large skirts, much like the Victorian dinner table.