Lizzie Borden Society Forum

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

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?

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.