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In the Victorian workhouse times the poor people had to wear a uniform so the outside knew they were poor and knew they were from the workhouse.

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In Victorian Workhouses they wore uniform. This was so that everyone looked the same and so everyone outside knew that they were poor and lived in a workhouse. :)

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victorian girls would have been so poor that they would of had to smother themselves in poo

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