Agreed! On the "bra", you can see the strip with eyelets hanging down to the waist, and a waist-length support garment would make perfect sense as a precursor to the garments we know existed acentury or so later.

And same with the undies. Kind of funny that the article's screaming about bikini undies, whereas I'm like, makes perfect sense on a bodily function level to me?

If someone uses this for justification for Ren Faire bikinis I'll have to hit them... ;)