Some women in continental europe did wear pants - pepys mentions somewhere in his huge diary that his wife was wearing knickers in the 1660s, but puts it down to her being french. split knickers were definitely still around in edwardian times - they really started to disappear as skirts started to shorten (they were no longer practical), but they'd have been around (I suspect) as slong as there were ladies of a certain age still dressing in edwardian / victorian clothing (some women still did right into the 40s and 50s, though of course it got rarer as time went on - part of the whole thing about people dressing largely as they did when they were young). d In a message dated 17/05/2007 13:52:40 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just a little note, when talking about split drawers. When i went to the exhibition about the elegant courtlife in the time of Frederik V, there was in the catalogue pictures of the queens midges clothes. Its a whole outfit, chemise- split drawers,stays, petticoat with hip pads, skirt and a Brunswick overdress with hood. Its 1770ies, and i thoaght they didnt wear underdrawers? Now Denmark had a cold climate during the winter season, perhaps it was a nescesity for the ladies two? _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
