Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 07:48:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Kathy Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [h-cost] Italian Underwear
I am gearing up for my visit to the Met to document
their 16th century Sicilian Bride underpinning
collection and a pair of chopines.
This delay has proven fortuitous in that the curator,
knowing how much we are trying to cover in a short
period of time, gave us an additional 2 hours with the
collection, totalling 6 hours of delerious pleasure
with 2 pairs of drawers, 2 chemises, a shirt, a pair
of stockings and a pair of chopines.
On Jan 8, 2006, at 9:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Um, I have a rank newbie question. I was always told that ladies
didn't wear
drawers in this period. Is that a myth, or a regional thing,
possibly? I
usually do English.
And I've always suspected that it couldn't be true. I've BEEN to
England. It
gets COLD there.
Thanks for your forbearance,
Tea Rose
My observation, in my research on this general topic, is that logic
and practicality are absolutely no guide to the attitudes of a given
culture at a given period towards women and underpants. Women either
wore them or didn't wear them because it was the appropriate thing to
do in their social context and not for any other objective reason.
Heather
--
Heather Rose Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.heatherrosejones.com
LJ:hrj
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