I wonder how much this relates to the placement of a washing machine and/or dryer.
It's typically in the kitchen in a British household, unless you have a house with a utility room or an old outdoor toilet (growing up, my house had an external downstairs toilet but it was just used for storage and the washing machine).
When I moved abroad though it wasn't unusual to see the washer/dryer in the bathroom.
> But the reason people wore those layers was not always necessarily to stay warm. In fact, the layers were worn in the summer in hot climates as well as during winter in cold climates.
This still holds up today. Can't speak for anywhere else but in the UK people will go out in 30ºC weather in an anorak or puffer jacket with a hoodie and tee underneath. The exact opposite of us northern British types who go out in winter wearing just one light layer at 5ºC (tee + jeans, top + skirt).
I think a big part of why UK washing machines aren't in bathrooms is our electrical regs, which don't allow plug sockets within three metres of a bath or shower. Most UK bathrooms aren't big enough for that, so you end up having to do awkward workarounds like giving them a hardwired connection and/or boxing the machine into a cupboard. (I used to own a flat where the only space to put the washing machine was the bathroom and had to get it boxed in...)
It's typically in the kitchen in a British household, unless you have a house with a utility room or an old outdoor toilet (growing up, my house had an external downstairs toilet but it was just used for storage and the washing machine).
When I moved abroad though it wasn't unusual to see the washer/dryer in the bathroom.
> But the reason people wore those layers was not always necessarily to stay warm. In fact, the layers were worn in the summer in hot climates as well as during winter in cold climates.
This still holds up today. Can't speak for anywhere else but in the UK people will go out in 30ºC weather in an anorak or puffer jacket with a hoodie and tee underneath. The exact opposite of us northern British types who go out in winter wearing just one light layer at 5ºC (tee + jeans, top + skirt).