Posted on 07/20/2012 10:24:09 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
600-year-old bra and underwear discovered in an Austrian castle
Contemporary bras are more comfortable, modified versions of corsets — or so it was believed, until a 2007 discovery changed the way we see women's underwear. Working with a team of her colleagues, archaeologist Beatrix Nutz recently publicized her discovery of several linen bras and some underwear in a medieval castle.
Nutz has presented academic papers about her discovery, and even analyzed the underwear for DNA (see picture). But the public didn't hear about the medieval bras until a BBC history program showed pictures of them. Nutz and colleagues also found a pair of men's underwear (pictured below) — apparently medieval women wore no panties.
What this means is that women were wearing bras long before the invention of corsets. So corsets have been revealed as the uncomfortable, restrictive version of bras. Does that mean the middle ages were actually a more liberal time than the corset-obsessed eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
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Helen Thomas has been looking for them!
She looks medieval, even Neanderthal.
Posting w/o reading? Those are man panities. Medieval women went commando back then.
No offense but... I for one am not buying it! 600 years old you got to be kidding me! IMHO it would be a stretch to say that this came from maybe just maybe the civil war era. But I’d say closer to the turn of the last century??
I think this kind of stuff belongs in the tabloid news myself. Given the the level of distraction, misdirection, lies and half truths it would probably make front page on most left wing rag newspapers across the country and headline news on NBC,ABC,CBS,CNN and pMSNBS.
I hope you realize that people bathed very infrequently back then and feminine hygiene was crude at best
With a name like Nutz, I'd think she would be studying medieval jock straps.
By the way, I don't think those were Wonderbras she found; probably Iron Maidens.
600 year old skid marks!
Ich bin ein bralearner.
Wunderbra!
Looks like something Janet Jackson would wear on the Super Bowl Halftime Show.
I knew I would come across a picture of Helen of Troy in this thread.
It was just a wardrobe malfunction.
Barren women may have had periods but they were usually killed or abandoned. Especially less attractive ones that wouldn't be taken care of by a powerful man with multiple fertile women to make up for it. No babies or eye candy meant the woman was a drain on resources.
Also, people were far less clean so some blood on the legs would have been barely noticed. No running water, no toilet paper, lots of flies, fleas, etc. In some societies people never bathed at all. Even in the Europe of a couple hundred years ago, people took a bath once a year and it was a huge occasion.
We truly have come a long way, baby...
since fabric was hard to come by your clothes usually rotted off you. they used wool and linen a lot which, at least, are good fabrics. when the industrial revolution started and fabric was produced on the big looms and not by hand on the small looms, fabric was a lot cheaper. people started to be cleaner because they had a change of clothes, but nothing like today. We have so many advantages over our ancestors—they must have been a hardy lot, the ones that survived. Many people are alive today who would have easily died 200 plus years ago.
I’ll take a fire truck with me and hose everything down. Failing that, a thousand pressure washers should take care of the problem. Maybe I’l change the course of history with - GASP - shampoo.
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archaeologist Beatrix Nutz
———but no panties-——
The fallacy in the article is that the fact panties or pantaloons were not found does not mean they did not exist.
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