15th CENTURY UNDIES!!!

[hsifeng]

I love Katrin Kania's blog, "a stitch in time". Today she posted this lovely info on extant German undies from the 16th c.

Yeppers.

Undies.

*i <3 extant undies*



Aaaanyway. There is an English language article available as well here.

Just filing this all away for future reading and reference.

EDITED 7/6/11: And here is jillwheezul talking about the German language article on these.

EDITED 7/18/12: Due to a recent set of English language articles on this topic, interest has swung back round again on this find. mmcnealy just posted this tidbit on FB. http://www.uibk.ac.at/urgeschichte/projekte_forschung/textilien-lengberg/medieval-lingerie-from-lengberg-castle-east-tyrol.html

Comments

[hsifeng.livejournal.com]

Totally possible (especially as I have not yet read the article and it's entire findings). However, these are identified as underpants (Unterhose) in the original German article and match up closely with images of underpants from various historical woodcuts (where the image is about underwear and not feminine hygine).

*shrug*