Quoting E House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
*snippage*
Now if they wore corsets, it would surely be listed here, yes? You
find the same conspicuous absence in inventories of the day.
Instead, the inventories and other accounts of the day DO list what
they used instead. In the quote above, it is the "pretty kirtle or
vasquin" [the vasquine being a garment with a stiffened bodice and a
skirt]. In an inventory of the era, it is: "3 ells white Parchet
(fustian) under the bodice at 27 pfund for stiffening." For
Katherine of Aragon in her last years, it was "Item, three breeste
clothis of Hollande cloth with tapis of the same."
So how is "a garment with a stiffened bodice" different from a boned
kirtle, and how is that *fundamentally* different from a corset? (aside
from the obvious thing that a corset in and of itself doesn't
have an attached skirt -- which is why I said "fundamentally")
Susan
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Susan Farmer
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University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/
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