Nov 29 2011
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I definitely plan on buying Casting Off the Corsets: A Brief History of Underwear, for bedtime reading. No doubt Dulcie Lewis is going to get quite a lot of custom from romance authors, too, who struggle with verisimilitude with their heroines’ knickers.
One thing they probably won’t include on the pages of a historical romance: “Immovable bowels: Victorian women spent a lot of time on their chamber pots. Apparently, during the period many doctors thought that women were prone to constipation, as so many tightly-corsetted ladies sought medical help.”
Read more about the book at Writing Women’s History: Casting off the corsets - a history of women’s underwear.
