During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, fashionable women wouldn’t consider travelling without a black velvet mask, called a vizard, to protect their complexion from the sun, from the dust kicked up by horses, and from gritty, polluted city air. Such… Read More
Men’s “dress” breeches in the late 1700s were skin tight and made of leather (the only fabric that wouldn’t split at the seams). It was impossible to sit down in them.