As it is well known, women in Britain didn’t wear any underwear (i.e. drawers or knickers) until the beginning of the 19th century when the very revealing neo-classical dresses made them adopt male-style pantaloons to protect their modesty. However, they were not very popular and were considered too masculine and unhygienic. By the 1830s these pantaloons […]
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