Seventeenth-Century Tidbits #2: Before the Bra – the Radical Option

Published Apr 25, 2013

Seventeenth-Century Tidbits #2: Before the Bra – the Radical Option

As the nameless and disreputable-looking lady above and the Duchess of Monmouth below attest, the radical option was simply to go without! Find out more here.

Gender issues in early modern England. 17th-century tidbits.

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