Nowadays, it is difficult to imagine storing your clothes without drawers. But you might be surprised that wardrobes with drawers came to be only during the later part of the 18^th century.

The first wardrobes with drawers were the tallboys. The tallboy is a kind of clothes storing furniture that has two chests of drawers at the bottom of it and wardrobe on top of it. A simple chest of drawers usually has about three long drawers and two short drawers. But the tallboy typically has five to seven long drawers and two short drawers.

The earliest forms of wardrobes with drawers were made out of walnut, but the most everlasting ones that exist up until now are made out of mahogany, since the most commonly used wood for tallboys during the 18^th century was mahogany.

What follows is a highboy, which is comparable to the tallboy, but the difference is that it has both of its upper and lower pieces consist of drawers, and many of these drawers are from single drawers to double drawers, and even to triple drawers.

Lowboys are also wardrobes with drawers, and are its height is similar to that of a standard table. They have a set of drawers that are intended to hold articles of clothing, and have been used for many centuries by most people.

The tallboys were the grandfathers of today’s modern type of wardrobe with drawers, with their sliding doors for a more convenient access to its contents. Back then, they were able to gain access of the tallboy’s uppermost drawers by stepping on bed steps, but because high beds are not in fashion in most modern houses nowadays, there was no need for bed steps anymore. Thus the modern day wardrobe with drawers was not made to be as tall as its predecessor.