Anyone who thinks that people wear clothing for comfort and practicality
should contemplate the wearing of pantihose.
Janet
It is surely interesting to think logically about such a problem, but,
just as you say, we can never rely on it, and, as we all know, people
didn't always act very logically and didn't choose the most comfortable
garments they could. Think of all those corsets and hoop petticoats and
cage crinolines - the latest being worn even by lower-class working women
that would surely need a more practical dress than the bourgeoise and
nobility.
While it's certainly true that some fashions are more inconvenient than
others on a purely practical level, I think that saying that people acted
illogically and chose uncomfortable garments is misleading. We tend to
think that our current fashion is the most logical, comfortable, and
lovely one, but people in the past thought the same thing>
So I must agree with Heather that it's dangerous to use modern ideas of
what is comfortable to evaluate historical clothing practices.
_______________________________________________
h-costume mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
