re: #323 Eowyn2

Okay which one of your queens was bathed at birth, wedding, and death? Water closets came in the late late 1700s didn’t they? and only for the very wealthy and forward thinkers. And another thing, what was the purpose of paniers?

That would fit Queen Elizabeth Tudor, except she never married. They say as she grew older she just put new makeup over the old, so thick you could scrape it with a knife. And bathing was certainly a rarity in those days. Courtiers would keep a perfume-drenched handkerchief in their sleeves to apply to the nose when someone particularly stinky came around. That’s the origin of the hankie sticking out of men’s breast pockets, I once read.

Panniers were just another fashion oddity, I think. Like the Elizabethan collar.