A 2008 discovery in an
Austria’s Castle Lengberg has revealed dozens of new textile artifacts including
a bra from the 15th century. A room in the castle was sealed off in the late
15th-century, and its dry conditions helped preserve organic material. Hundreds
of textiles were discovered. Among them were four nearly complete linen bras
and fragments of corselettes, some rather coarsely made others more elaborately
decorated with plaited borders and sprang worked parts. Also found was underwear
that looks remarkably like a string bikini. Radio-carbon dating has confirmed the
age of the find.“All other textiles from this find, like fragments of
dresses, shirts, trousers, laces etc., fit well to the 15th century. In
addition, the shoes being found together with the textiles in the same layer
are all of types in fashion from the end of the 14th to the first half of
the 15th century.”
Now the heroines of The Vespers Series lived in a very different climate about 200 years earlier than the dates of this clothing discovery, but it really makes you wonder if they also had something similar.
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