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⬇️ I’ll put the fashion info below then divide the rest into pages for ease of reference/speed:
- Jump to Women’s health history on page 2
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🧵Some fashion history for Women’s History Month🪡
🏴 Have a watch of this brilliant wee video of a dress historian reconstructing what’s commonly referred to as a “French Hood”, but interestingly what *may* potentially be more accurately called a “Scottish Hood”:
⭐️ Something important to note is that historically women in Scotland would have usually worn their hair up in some way or at least braided; then certainly in the centuries following conversion to Christianity they would have also covered it with veils, hoods & caps etc, particularly if they were married 👰🏻 Therefore there were long periods of our history when wearing your hair loose & completely uncovered would have been quite scandalous!
🧶 Bonus fashion history myth busting – corsets, stays, bodies etc are another thing that have a lot of misconceptions floating around about them, which are unfortunately often encouraged by films showing tight-lacing scenes etc as if that was the norm. In fact, these were just normal pieces of underwear worn for support by women of *all* classes, so not just posh ‘ladies’ but working-class women who had to be able to do really hard, physical work whilst wearing them. These myths aren’t specific to Scotland but are certainly part of our history & now our pop-culture, so if interested you might like watching:
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🌟 Also, if you like Tudor fashion in general (though again not Scotland specific) this is a good playlist from another dress historian here 🖥
📸 Featured Photo credit: Pexel
Scottish history, archaeology, folklore & more~ 