MYTH BUSTED! Everyone Was Dirty & No One Washed "Back Then" (Ft. Historian Hilary Davidson)
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 Published On Dec 23, 2023

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[1] European. 1835. Woman’s Chemise. Linen. Los Angeles, CA. LA County Museum of Art. https://collections.lacma.org/node/21...
[2] American. 1780-85. Robe à La Polonaise. Silk. New York, NY. Met Museum of Art. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...
[3] English. 1830. Bodice. Silk. London, UK. V&A. https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O3...
[4] Manesse, Rüdiger. 1340. Herr Jakob von Warte. Ink on Parchment. Heidelberg, Germany. Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.2222#...
[5] Cambrensis, Giraldus. 1196-1223. British Library MS Royal 13 B. VIII, F.28v. Ink on Parchment. London, UK. British Library. https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer....
[6] French School. 1852. Les Gestes Du Bain in La Sante Universelle, Guide Medical Des Familles. Engraving. Private Collection.
[7] Matania, Fortunino. 1922. Ancient Roman Women Bathing in a Public Bath in London. Pencil, Highlighted en Grisaille. London, UK. Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/...
[8] Heine, Wilhelm, and James Fuller Queen. 1856. Public Bath at Simoda / from Nature. Lithograph. Washington DC. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/2014649312/
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[15] Smith, Clara Sheldon. 1895. Group Portrait of Chinese Persons in Western Dress at Marysville Train Depot. Print of Negative. Berkeley, CA. Bancroft Library, University of Berkeley. https://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb2c...
[16] English. 19th Century. Smock. Embroidered Linen. London, UK. V&A. https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O3...
[17] Grimble, Frances. 2009. The Lady’s Stratagem : A Repository of 1820s Directions for the Toilet, Mantua-Making, Stay-Making, Millinery & Etiquette. San Francisco, Ca: Lavolta Press.
[18] British. 1800-20. Shift. Linen. London, UK. V&A. https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O3...
[19] American. 1840. Chemise. Cotton. New York, NY. Met Museum of Art. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...
[20] Unknown maker. Dress. Private Collection.
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[22] Unknown photographer. 1902. Women Vagrants Sleeping, Spitalfields, East End. Photograph. Mary Evans Picture Library. https://www.maryevans.com/search.php?...
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0:00 - Intro
1:35 - Ad
2:42 - The Bathing Process
5:30 - Washing, Not Bathing
7:09 - Cleaning With Linen
9:34 - Modern Normal vs Historical Normal
12:25 - Miasma Theory
14:30 - What Causes Body Odor?
18:19 - Engineering Backwards
21:44 - A 21st C Failure of Imagination
22:18 - Human Smell
24:01 - TLDR
25:33 - fine, here be pig

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