Ladies who were busy washing their clothes in the murky water stopped to wave as we passed, while fishermen smoked silently in their boats -- a scene that would probably have looked the same 100 years ago.

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Men wore clothes that were as colorful as the ladies' garb.

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"I used to get a lot of mail from ladies wanting to know if I ever sold any of my clothes and where did I get them, " she says.

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Ladies make an appearance as well for example, in "The Ladies' Club, " an 1886 photograph by an unknown artist that illustrates the tightly laced, full-length clothes then worn by the women golfers at St.

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