[Ansteorra] Undergarments and stuff

Sunny Briscoe sunnyday72 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 21 19:33:38 PDT 2006


Okay, it's just post period but 1607, Madonna del Rosario, CARAVAGGIO shows
a toddler in a very droopy diaper under split hose.
http://www.wga.hu/art/c/caravagg/09/58rosar.jpg

Elisabetta


On 9/21/06, Chris Zakes <dontivar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> At 11:33 PM 9/20/2006, you wrote:
> >On Sep 20, 2006, at 2:47 PM, Claude Anthony Penny wrote:
> >
> > > I know that Victorian panties were split in the crotch, so that one
> > > didn't have to rearrange all of the layers, when one went to the
> > > necessary.  I keep wondering if any underpants were used, for
> > > ladies and
> > > small children, in much of period.
> >
> >Not for small children. Both sexes appear to be dressed in simple
> >tunics.  The kid needs to go, put him outside the door of the cottage
> >in the cabbage patch ( I think that was the plant). No diapers, no
> >underclothes to get messy during toilet training. I still don't
> >understand how that fits in with swaddling the babies, though.
>
>
> <chuckle> I guess you've never raised kids. That technique might work
> for a child who has been toilet-trained, but for an infant? They go
> when they need to go, and there's little or no warning beforehand. A
> diaper (or something that serves the same purpose) would be necessary
> or you'd be cleaning the floor an *awful* lot.
>
>          -Tivar Moondragon
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