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Ms. Justice ([personal profile] arspoetica) wrote2012-07-20 05:06 pm

The More You Know...

So, it's not English, per se...but it is a really cool factoid about medieval Europe.

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If anyone can read German, the academic article written on this seems to be here (Though I’m not sure. I took Spanish in high school). But it was definitely found by German archaeologist Beatrix Nutz. According to a few other articles I hunted down, the underwear is actually for men, not women. But the bra still changes fashion history.