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

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

Totally men's undies. See Durer's The Men's Bath for the exact same style.

But WICKED COOL nonetheless!

[hsifeng.livejournal.com]

*nods in agreement*

As mmcnealy pointed out, this extant set helps to show that the drawing are literal when they demonstrate this style of undies as being tied on only one side.

Very. Cool.

:D

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

Of course, only one knot to come undone at an inconvenient time instead of two!