22-02-2021, 06:08 PM
(21-02-2021, 10:50 PM)Steve kay Wrote: How is the Seven forum in danger of straying into Shakespearean costume comments. Doublet and hose would be quite enough, let’s have no codpieces on a Sunday night.
Just for the record; cod pieces were not fashionable in Elizabethan England compared with Medieval times and if present were very much reduced.
Stockings and socks were worn by ladies in both times, not tights. Early on in the 16th century these would have been stitched linen or woollen hose. Silk stockings were introduced later and were knitted originally but by the end of the century a machine had been invented. Drawers were not worn.