Keeping and Eye on Things.

[Allen]

Maybe she thought one of the witnesses had noticed the pile of clean clothes in her room, and possibly remarked on it in testimony?

[Kat]

Now that you mention it, no one remarked upon a pile of clean clothes in Lizzie or Emma's rooms.
Do we know what items these might be?
I mean, they didn't throw those big dresses in the laundry, did they?
I recall reading about how to remove stains and spots from dresses.
But I think the dressmaker said the Cord dress had faded, so maybe they did stick those big dresses in a laundry tub?

[Allen]

They were usually not only put into the wash tub, but they were often boiled while being stirred with a big stick, then washed and rinsed. I remember reading about the way clothing was washed and ironed when when I was looking up information about the cleaning days of the week, and what tasks were customarily performed on what day, and again when I was looking for information about the proper procedure for ironing the clothing at the time. But since the laundry was only done once a week and the house dresses were often worn for more than one day of that week, knowing how to take out stains was probably very useful information. I can imagine how soiled some of these dresses must have gotten.