Follow-up on the medieval "lingerie"

[mandie_rw]

New, slightly different article from NBC on the bras that my friend linked me to!

Most notably, this one says the underpants weren't women's. Take that, Daily Mail!

Comments

[sewloud.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I believe they're men's. I also don't believe the blanket statement that women didn't wear ANYTHING EVERY under their shifts. I mean hello what do you think they DID for that time of the month? sure maybe some ladies sat around and bled on a tissue but the majority of them had things to do!

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

This, thank you.

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

http://www.nesat.org/abstracts/lecture_nutz.pdf

The preliminary report that I think came out last year. I recall reading through it a while ago.

http://medievalhistories.com/medieval-lingerie/

The sprang bra.

[colev.livejournal.com]

There's plenty of evidence of women's undergarments in the Classical period as well as a surviving bra from the Regency. It's hard to imagine we forgot how to make simple support garments between the two. And there HAS to be a way to deal with the monthly issue. I'm not surprised it exists- just that it survived!