As humans evolved, so did underwear. Today, when we focus on comfort, underwear in the past is geared towards those unique and strange designs.
Underwear is a relatively sensitive topic, enough to make people shy about talking about it. Sometimes it’s even more ominous than sex, because after all, sex is as natural as breathing, and you can choose to wear or not wear underwear.
But really, if underwear was a topic that made you “shy” , then perhaps in the olden days you wouldn’t have dared to wear them. The reason is because today’s underwear is designed more simply, focusing on the wearer’s feeling, while in the past… the more unique the better.
If you do not believe, then come to the list of super weird underwear of the ancients right below.
This underwear is for both men and women.
As it turns out, the first versions of bikinis date back to ancient Rome. They are called Strophiae (shirt) and Subligacula (pants), made from soft leather.
However, this type of underwear is mainly worn by sports athletes during festive occasions, and it is for both men and women.
Although it was leggings, they rolled it up to just above the knee.
Originally a type of leggings worn by the Celtic and German aborigines, by the end of the Middle Ages it had become one of the most enduring types of underwear in history.
The way they wear them is also somewhat… weird. They were leggings, but they rolled them up to just above the knee – just as long as shorts are now. It was originally made from leather and wool, but was converted to cotton in ancient Roman times.
Your bag was born to “show” what is supposed to be the masculinity of men.
King Henry VIII was the first to initiate this bizarre type of pants, when he devised a “codpiece” to “show” what was supposed to be the masculinity of men. Even people are looking for a way… to add some accessories for that area to be somewhat more massive.
Thanks to that, codpiece became really popular in Europe during the 15th – 16th centuries. Even today it still exists, mainly in the performances of metal rock groups.
The corset is too tight will cause bad consequences for the body.
Basically, it can be understood that a corset is like a frame, blooming at both ends and tightening in the middle, in order to “squeeze” a woman’s body into an hourglass shape, even though they themselves are not like that.
However, too tight corsets will cause bad consequences for the body, such as deformed ribs, compressed lungs, making it difficult to breathe… The matter was even more serious in the early years of the century. 20, when the “super tight” corsets were born.
However, women in the past were really caught up in beauty standards, forced to torture themselves in such underwear because “society wants it”.
This type of corset was very popular in the late 19th century.
Even young mothers – at the time of giving birth to a baby still have to dress properly. The fashion of those days created a corset just for them: the 3 pieces are the same, but the first bust has a button so that it can be easily removed when needed.
This type of corset was extremely popular during the Industrialization period in the late 19th century.
These “hygiene” belts were so popular that they were used as far back as the 1970s.
Before the advent of tampons, women had a number of methods to deal with when their day came. They can use a clean cloth to absorb, or… let the blood flow downstream for a few days. Alternatively, they can choose to use this weird type of “menstrual belt” .
It was basically like a pair of underwear these days, but the bottom was made of metal, used to line the fabric. And believe it or not, these “hygiene” belts were so popular that they were worn all the way back to the 1970s.