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It is cold and gloomy today. I should probably be planting things, but it is so soggy and cold I do not want to garden.
Then I will sew!
However.
When I was first in the planning stages of what sort of garb I would need, I saw like a dozen pages outlining the construction of old-fashioned split drawers. These seem the most plausible undergarment for my purposes, and I'd be most comfortable in such a thing. (I can testify that they were indeed in common use on women from about 1850 to 1920, because I have been looking at vintage porn; yes I'm going for the 1400s, but most of the people who say that women never wore drawers seem to think this was the case up until like 1930, and I can tell just from what I've seen that they're full of shit.
Another astonishing fact is all these people who think medieval people must've worn modern granny panties during their periods. I am young enough that I've never seen one but even I know about the old-fashioned belts women fastened pads to in Ye Dayes of Yore; how can SCA costumers not know about them? I am unsurprised that none have survived from the middle ages, but it is less weird to conjecture something of that kind than to retroactively project 40s-era granny panties. Or to imagine that the baggy-saggy-assed men's trews, known from both art and archaeology, would somehow be useful in any way at keeping a pad in remotely the right place.
I am digressing.)
At any rate, now that I am ready to make them, there is not a pattern or mention to be found. I must be Googling the wrong thing. I tried to wing it, and ended up with several tiny pieces of muslin: my measuring techniques leave something to be desired, evidently.
Then I will sew!
However.
When I was first in the planning stages of what sort of garb I would need, I saw like a dozen pages outlining the construction of old-fashioned split drawers. These seem the most plausible undergarment for my purposes, and I'd be most comfortable in such a thing. (I can testify that they were indeed in common use on women from about 1850 to 1920, because I have been looking at vintage porn; yes I'm going for the 1400s, but most of the people who say that women never wore drawers seem to think this was the case up until like 1930, and I can tell just from what I've seen that they're full of shit.
Another astonishing fact is all these people who think medieval people must've worn modern granny panties during their periods. I am young enough that I've never seen one but even I know about the old-fashioned belts women fastened pads to in Ye Dayes of Yore; how can SCA costumers not know about them? I am unsurprised that none have survived from the middle ages, but it is less weird to conjecture something of that kind than to retroactively project 40s-era granny panties. Or to imagine that the baggy-saggy-assed men's trews, known from both art and archaeology, would somehow be useful in any way at keeping a pad in remotely the right place.
I am digressing.)
At any rate, now that I am ready to make them, there is not a pattern or mention to be found. I must be Googling the wrong thing. I tried to wing it, and ended up with several tiny pieces of muslin: my measuring techniques leave something to be desired, evidently.
