I'm of the serious thought that women wore SOMETHING in the winter, because
one winter I was dressed in garb for my own personal research and let me
clue ya....wind and snow blowing up long skirts (even three layers worth of
linen and wool) gets mighty cold!! Backs of my legs and bum were numb after
a while.
Nope. Wore something on my legs after that.
Brangwyne
Subject: RE: [h-cost] middle ages: braies for women?
As it happens I'm working on a book too, only pesky life keeps getting in
the way of completion. Sigh.
Anyway, I -DID- run across a rape trial account where the man was convicted
because he'd had to pull the girl's braies down before he could do the deed.
Had there been no braies, her status as an innocent in the proceedings would
have been in question. The reference is buried in the disaster pile of
research, I'll try to find it this weekend....
I don't think it can be said that all women wore them all the time. But I
also don't think women never wore them.
Astrida
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