Hello,
I recently looked through a (not yet published) costume book of one of my
friends which tells about clothing in the western Europe around the 13th and
14th centuries. It is divided into chapters, each for one specific garment
(like gardecorp, tunic, surcotte...). It is supposed to talk about nobility.
Well, in a chapter about women's underwear, I found a picture of a woman
wearing something like male braies, and another picture depicting a woman with
a garment that looked like today's pants or knickers. It was redrawn, but if I
could only remember the source...
The author said nothing and it looked like he was thinking it was a general
practice for women to wear such underclothes. Well, if I remember right, all
history of underwear books tell you what a scandal it was when (was it
catherine de medici?) in the 16th century started to wear drawers, inspired by
the eastern countries. Then, it was actually the 19th century when drawers
became common and were no sign of scandal or anything else.
Another question that has something in common with the first one is: Would
women wear chausses under the skirt when it was winter? If yes, it would be
logic that they needed braies to tie the chausses to something.
Do you know anything about this? I really am confused but this topic interests
me quite a lot, so I'd like to get to know something more about it:-)
Many thanks,
Zuzana
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