Davedove, I did go there, and the girls were all real nice...the dog though was a real foul b. just kidding.. did you all notice that a kilt, is a kilt, in all the scandi languages except icelandic? neat.
I am just reading Pepys diaries, and during the early 1660s the men wore petticoat britches, which were - as far as I can work out, two knee length straight tubes joined together with a U shape for the body to fit into. I'm not sure what happened at the top - gathered onto a band or with a casing and tape maybe. How they untrussed is a bit of a mystery.
An aquaintance of Pepys tells him how he had accidentally put both legs into the same half of his britches when dressing and never noticed all day.
There is a portrait of the King in petticoat britches, loads of lace and silk.
For the 27th July 1665 - (by which time the fashion is for closed knee britches), he writes
But it was pretty to see the young pretty ladies dressed like men; in velvet coats, caps with ribbands and with laced (neck)bands just like men.
Originally Posted by Fearnest
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