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Medieval "Lingerie" From 15th Century Castle Could Rewrite Fashion History
fangmcgee writes "Archaeologists have unearthed several 500-year-old bras that some experts say could rewrite fashion history. While they'll hardly send pulses racing by today's standards, the lace-and-linen underpinnings predate the invention of the modern brassiere by hundreds of years. Found hidden under the floorboards of Lengberg Castle in Austria's East Tyrol, along with some 2,700 textile fragments and one completely preserved pair of (presumably male) linen underpants, the four intact bras and two fragmented specimens are thought to date to the 15th century, a hypothesis scientists later confirmed through carbon-dating."
I know a chick named Donna Matrix who goes for the whole Medieval Lingerie thing.
Tends more toward leather and chainmail than lace. Probably due to the crude manufacturing technology of the times.
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Medieval trolling: Came expecting gold, left with some hag's bra. You mad bro?
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These aren't bras. They are medieval "sexist comments" left in the Da Vinci code.
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Thou are speaketh in a comical form and manor. I say art thoueth a baffoon or comical jester?
You simply must continue on. Doesth thou produce plays? Pray tell where doest one sign up to get tickets? I wish to submit myself to thy whimsicle banter!
...that even in the 15th century, you still had to ensure you protected your washing line from underwear fetishists.....
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Why do women wear bras anyways? They don't need them. :P
I've always assumed it was to prevent them from slapping against their foreheads cartoonishly when running.
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Thou are speaketh in a comical form and manor. I say art thoueth a baffoon or comical jester?
You simply must continue on. Doesth thou produce plays? Pray tell where doest one sign up to get tickets? I wish to submit myself to thy whimsicle banter!
Art thou a foreigner still attempting to apprehend the vagaries of the English tongue?
Thy grammar is weak; though switchest betwixt second person singular and plural without reason, and though fabricatest idiomatic chimerae such as "thoueth" without regard for linguistic merit. Thy conjugation is often off: thou dost use the third person indicative form "speaketh" when thou speakest directly to a second person. Thine usage of helping verbs is often spurious, and thine orthological butcherings of "dost" and "doth" are most droll.
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Your text, Sir, on the other hand is full off anachronisms.
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Since "Grammar Catholics" has no time-reference, I suppose a good version could be "Beware the Henry VIII Grammar Anglicans" instead ?
Surely you jest? Henry VIII's Grammar Anglicans? As a descendant of Huguenots you can't expect . .
Knock, knock . . . Smash! . . .
Ah ha!! Nobody expects the Anglican grammaticians!* . . . Cardinal Biggles! Read the charges!
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yes, seamstresses, hem-hem...
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Perhaps it was Castle Anthrax?
The castle is in Austria. And the period is the 15th century, not the 16th. Although the clothes have been carbon dated I can't find a reference to the exact date, but for most of the 15th century the language would have been Middle English.
In Austria??? A dialect of Early New High German, surely? If you're going to be a pedant it's important to get it right.
Naw, they'd probably be speaking Early New High English with an Aussie accent, mate. Though I am surprised someone sent to a penal colony could afford a castle.
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