This leads me to ask, and please do not take offense anyone... How did 16th
women deal with their monthly courses without underpants? Rags, I know, but
how were they held up? This part of clothing never seems to be dealt with,
though the Costume Society of America ("Dress") once had an article on 19th
C. inovations.
Dame Catriona MacDuff
Interested in 16th C. womens issues
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Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 8:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: Italian Underwear
I found it hard to believe that women used not to wear drawers until I saw
Rowlandson's "Exhibition Stare-Case" - admittedly not 16th century, but...
http://www.wisc.edu/english/tkelley/NASSR/images/2Rowlandsonstare2.jpg
No doubt in cold weather they put on extra petticoats. After all, underwear
was simply a washable lining to your outer clothes; if you didn't wear
breeches, you didn't need drawers.
Kate Bunting
Librarian and 17th century reenactor
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/01/2006 06:26 >>>
On Jan 8, 2006, at 9:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Um, I have a rank newbie question. I was always told that ladies
> didn't wear
> drawers in this period. Is that a myth, or a regional thing,
> possibly? I
> usually do English.
>
> And I've always suspected that it couldn't be true. I've BEEN to
> England. It
> gets COLD there.
>
> Thanks for your forbearance,
> Tea Rose
>
My observation, in my research on this general topic, is that logic
and practicality are absolutely no guide to the attitudes of a given
culture at a given period towards women and underpants. Women either
wore them or didn't wear them because it was the appropriate thing to
do in their social context and not for any other objective reason.
Heather
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LJ:hrj
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