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A typical suitcase came equipped with an inner sleeve for storing shirts, and sometimes a little hat box on the side. When the suitcase finally did catch on at the end of the 19th century, it was quite literally a case for suits. Without this protection, a suitcase in the hold of a heaving, leaky ship would probably have been wet within a few hours, and crushed by sliding trunks within a few more.
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The best trunks were waterproofed with canvas or tree sap, as steamships were a reigning mode of travel. In Verne's day, proper travel required a hefty trunk built of wood, leather, and often a heavy iron base. We'll buy our clothes on the way.”Īt the time, the suitcase as we know it today hardly existed. “We'll have no trunks,” he says to his servant Passepartout, “only a carpet bag, with two shirts and three pairs of stockings for me, and the same for you. When Phileas Fogg decides to circle the globe in Around the World in 80 Days, the 1873 novel by Jules Verne, he doesn't take a suitcase.
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