I detest spices. People doing their business wherever and whenever they felt like it:  Colonial Williamsburg does an admirable job explaining how 18th-century people used the bathroom, so I won’t belabor the point much. That doesn’t mean kings and queens in the 18th Century literally shat in corridors rather than using a privy, close-stool or chamber pot. Now I don’t eat even that. Face it, are any of those people who were praising her post going to read this one? Hell, I might be sending people over to her blog to read about how this show could change the role of costuming in movies by legitimizing it as part of the storytelling process, instead of just set dressing. Saying no will not stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make them less relevant or more repetitive. Here you can see the knot above the pocket slit where the petticoat fastens. Hour glass-ish shape with long strips of fabric at each corner, I’m assuming tied at the side, but I suppose could have tied front or back side as well. Get it as soon as Wed, Oct 14. Stays were a literal symbol of a woman’s uprightness and virtue. But that’s not going to stop me from trying to set the record straight! Unable to refute you admit we don’t know enough about some things and others you deny even though it is evidenced everywhere else that filth was typical to the time. If you’ve ever ducked into a loo in an old London house and wondered why you seemed to be in some spare closet, it’s because you probably are; toilets were added “after the fact,” in a hurry. In the 18th century a woman's skirts were referred to as petticoats. This, I thought, was going to be worth seeing. Her stays, pockets and a spare pair of garters lie close by. Body odor would still have been overwhelming even with an occasional sponge bath. A Ladies Time of the Month. For example ladies attending court would be told to appear 'fully dressed'. All rights reserved. The bottom compartment was for the wood to burn to boil the water. No underwear – Terry Dresbach was referring to panties, which is what those of us from the West Coast of the US call underwear. We, at least in industrialized countries, are MUCH better with “the whole problem of public sanitation thing” than our ancestors were 300 years ago. Ever since the Middle Ages royalty has been recorded over and over as refusing to bath. How can you expect any accuracy in a film related to her, when her research can not even turn up the most basic of Scottish recipes? The smell of menstrual blood was considered erotic: I think this depended on the locale, era, and personal preference of the individual professing to be either aroused or repulsed by the scent of menstrual blood. Most decent homes in 18C had simple privies – little more than an outhouse with a seat over a hole in the ground. Some of our sources are a bit exaggerated, and these tend to be cherry-picked: there’s a whole school of thought out there that the past was some kind of hideous freak-show covered with dirt and dripping with pus. 18th Century Women's Rococo Ball Gown Gothic Victorian Dress Masquerade Costume. 3. or check the sources. Not to mention that I used to do the jogging part in my school clothing most of the time, and sometimes I also engaged in the, quite unusual habit to say the least, of sleeping in my outside clothes, not changing into pajamas when going to bed. She didn’t say they never bathed, but rather that people didn’t “bathe” regularly. Please do! I was going to mention Ruth Goodman, too. Later in the century the handkerchief was known as a fichu. And that even when I do a lot of physical effort that makes me sweat like shit literally. However, in British architecture of the period, there was a disregard for toilets that is hard to understand. But even that I used to eat only once a week or so. is to put a rag to it! A few rags and some moss on those very rare occasions probably did the trick. However after about 1800 women also wore underwear called drawers. No amount of proclaiming “differing opinions” on these topics, or linking to a “thesis” that supported her inane claims (which turns out to be a post on a Yahoo! The usual method of making petticoats was to sew together several panels of fabric to obtain the desired width. He must have learned that somewhere – in Western Europe, I presume. Hi – great post, but can I offer a small corrective to the sewers point, at least in London, which I know a bit about. I know Versailles and many old castles : there are toilettes inside, and lots of bathroom in Versailles ! Not at all! I am writing a historical novel set in India, much of it in Fort Saint George, Madras, which was rebuilt and redeveloped in the 1780s. Yes, some women are more adept at dressing themselves…and some aren’t. Obviously, he’s never experienced a “feminine emergency”. I did run across one academic journal article that is freely available on the internet titled “Thy Righteousness Is But a Menstrual Clout: Sanitary practices and prejudices in early modern England” by Sara Read, Ph.D. Read offers the legend of Hypatia pretty quickly in her article, as evidence that “menstrual rags” were known to the Byzantine scholar who was elaborating on the original legend. So, thank you for making it easy for me to convince my friend to read the books! In between baths, they washed in a basin of cold water, rinsing off with another basin of cold water. Love this post! I’ll give the costume designer the benefit of the doubt that maybe she is mixing up her time periods! Carolyn: Thank you fo rthe information about sanitary pads! Only in her senior year of high school (1938/39) did my mom have a job that allowed her to finally buy commercial sanitary napkins. So they still washed themselves usually once a week or once every other week. And obviously no showering either. When I showed it to my then-85 year old grandmother, she recognized it immediately. This was the common practice. I guess I’m saying that I didn;t really have much issue with Terry’s claim that it takes 20 mins to put on a corset, and understood where she may be coming from as a costumier. Women did not wear underwear in the 18th century. The same hot bus, in the U.S., with everyone on a dairy-rich, high-protein diet, would be unimaginably horrible. NO way they would be bled on deliberately. Oh, for the love… Resistance running 2-5 kilometers a day, usually in the clothes I had on me at school.

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