Ladies Medieval underwear-A new discovery

[levyarcher]

Take a look at the following link to see what medieval women may have been wearing

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... s-ago.html

Jason

[Simon Atford]

There's piece on this the BBC History Mag. Unfornatly I've left it at work Should be a bit more nuanced that the Daily Hate's article.

[frances]

I believe that it was found some years ago. It is now news because it has been carbon-dated to the late 15th century.

However, the Roman lady bull-jumpers wore very similar outfits and I am not surprised. It seems a very logical set of underwear to me.

[Alice the Huswyf]

There was discussion some years ago (here) of C14th lambskin 'bodywarmers' worn under the kirtle, which would have coincidentally provided some shape and support.

Also the discussion on sanitary precautions - would the online bikini bottoms have taken the place of the T-bandaging to hold pads in place? Is it just me, or does the damaged front section look like it is of multi-layer construction, begging the obvious question - is this an item for daily or monthly wear?

[Ghost]

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

[Sir_John_Thomas]

The bikini bottoms are menswear so it says here.

http://www.uibk.ac.at/urgeschichte/proj ... tyrol.html

[Ghost]

http://www.scottmcd.net/artanalysis/?p=702

[Ghost]

although images of prostitutes wearing something similar are common

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