What did underwear look like during the Qianlong period?

The history of wearing underwear in China is not long, and there was no underwear in ancient times. In fact, there is no record of women wearing underwear in Luoyang city. There are some hints in the archaeological record. It seems that since the third generation, women have no clothes, and it was not until the Han Dynasty that they put on open-backed pants. "The Biography of the Queen Shangguan in Han Dynasty" said: "Although the imperial envoys are all poor in pants, they bring more." The so-called "poor pants" are open-backed pants. The purpose of wearing open-backed pants is to facilitate defecation, but it is naturally impossible to wear underwear. In this case, at least in the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese made the Tang suit into a kimono. It seems that women wear kimonos without underwear.

No matter at home or abroad, ancient women didn't have underwear, because once they were wrapped, they couldn't see anything, and it didn't matter whether they wore it or not. Japanese people naturally learned this tradition of not wearing underwear from China clothes. 1932, in the seventh year of Showa, Japan, the "white wooden house" of Tokyo department store suddenly caught fire, and the fire developed very fast. Dozens of salesgirls were trapped on the second floor. The firemen opened the life-saving net downstairs and told them to jump off the building quickly. As a result, most of them refused to jump off the building and almost all of them were burned to death. This is a bit ridiculous. Check the reason, because they are wearing traditional kimonos, and they are all inside. This incident is the beginning of Japanese women wearing underwear. Since that incident, women have been wearing underwear, whether it's a coat or a kimono. I don't know much about the history of underwear in China. I think it started in the Republic of China.

Western women's underwear has a long history. Italians used it for a long time, while women in other western European countries didn't know what underwear was for a long time. Here is a story.

During the Renaissance, the French emperor Henry II married Catherine Medici, a famous Italian family. Catherine became a queen and often rode out with the ladies and nobles in the palace. At that time, French women rode horses like men, so they straddled horseback. Kathleen thinks this posture is ugly. She put her legs on the side of the horse and designed a special saddle for this. One leg can go around without falling down because of Ma Yue. This is what we call the "side riding" posture, Cather. As soon as the horse ran away, the wind blew up the skirt, but it looked good, because both bare thighs of the woman riding the horse were exposed. Sometimes if the horse bumps, the style of the skirt will be more exposed, and the French court men will be thirsty. It is no wonder that at that time, whenever the court women rode horses, even the emperor would stand there and watch, just to see the surprise of spring.

Queen Catherine soon discovered that these men had ulterior motives, so she improved the underwear she had been using in Italy, which was called "calecon" in French. In fact, this kind of underwear was originally used by Italian men, but it is very dense and will never run out. Since then, lingerie has gradually become popular in France.

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