From: WickedFrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...The City Virgins, and especially Gentlewomen, couer their heads, face,
and backes with a Vaile, that they may not be seene passing the
streetes, and in many
places weare silke or linnen breeches vnder their gownes. (Italy)"
Now, now, all of thes quotes would seem to imply that maybe in different
places and at different times people did things differently from each other
- we know this can't be the case since everyone in history was upper class
and did things exactly the same way...
(Sorry, I'm trying to get a chapter finished and it's given me a headache)
Ok, maybe we could look at this a different way. Turn it around. Instead
of trying to figure out where and when women were wearing breeches of some
sort -- why are we assuming they weren't? And why are we assuming it was
commonly done? Is this one of those things we've just assumed because our
view of the past is filtered *through* a period when it may have been this
way (which seems to happen a lot)?
Marc
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