Info 52: Historic books, underwear p2, girl milking

A New York farm girl or young women in 1941. 2 more images at my Picasa album.
I also found many other books describing wearing nothing underneath.

"Growing Up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television" Page 31: To a farm kid underwear meant long johns worn in the cold weather. To have anything between you and your overalls in July seemed ludricrous<15> Footnoted refered to book Hubbert, "Since the Day I was born" rural Ontario of the 1930s. And later that in the 1950s urban and rural boys were wearing short cotton underwear in summer.

Also an interesting find at Google Books of a "1897 Sears Roebuck & Co. Catalogue" including images and detailed description and prices (also of many other goods like underwear, medicine, food, sweets and farm things). Most overalls are without bibs only mechanical and white painters' overalls are with bibs.