Schaeffer, Astrida wrote:
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.
That's roughly my feeling on the subject. There are a few suggestive
bits of information out there, and those plus the practical
considerations lead me to believe that drawers/braies wearing my
Medieval women is at least plausible, if hard to document.
--
Adele de Maisieres
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Habeo metrum - musicamque,
hominem meam. Expectat alium quid?
-Georgeus Gershwinus
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