Like indians had much more luxurious than they ever could be look at historical pictures they were kinda envious of what we had the wealth of india was something best in the world
Oh definitely. There's an old saying that goes " Don't throw the baby out with the bath water". Specifically, because way back in the day IF you were lucky to bath once a week the husband got in the tub first, then all the other boy children, then the wife, girls and finally at the very end you'd bath the babies. All in the same water! 🤢
It's also the reason spring and summer weddings are popular. Folks would go the entire winter with no real bath, come spring water holes would thaw and people would go wash themselves and all their clothes.
Also the person you are most likely to mate successfully with will naturally smell good to you. It's actually science. That's why people who are dating like to sleep with clothes their SO has worn, if they are apart
@@kikidevine694 True ! One of the reasons I dated my husband was the smell of his skin. Not a cologne or soap just his own skin scent. I know it’s bizarre but it’s true 😂
I don’t think you watched the whole thing properly from the beginning. Everyone stank 😂. Sooooo, everyone stank. Regardless of how much lavender water was used by women they still stank.
@@jahmarl8787?? The comment is referring to the fact that Kate is Indian, not British. So she doesn't conform to the terrible British regency era hygiene standards, as she wasn't raised there. Indian people at the time bathed frequently and had a good level of hygiene,much better than there British counterparts, so therefore Kate likely had much better standard of hygiene, and so she smelled a lot better than most people.
And in India we had poets from 3rd Century BC who wrote "even if you are having a simple porridge, have a bath first before eating" and "even if you are clothed in rags, wash it before wearing"
It is so hard to imagine these amazing love stories when everyone stunk, literally. Who wants to dance, have sex, and/or kiss someone when they stink so much. I always wondered how women dealt with their periods back then. Now I know.
People are quick to adapt to their environment. Think about it. If today everyone you knew stinked horrible including you, it would've just become the norm. Infact, the people in the Regency era were probably so used to body oder that they didn't even smell it
Everyone adapts to the era they live in. If everyone had bad breath and rotten teeth then it would not have been a big deal. They would have become “nose blind” etc to those things. It was what it was. Many years from now the generations would look back and wonder how we lived the way we are living now.
People seem to never realize that. In the 50's it was pit shields and pads with belts no adhesive back than,plus they were wrapped in brown paper at the store.
seriously they had the audacity to call Indians uncivilized, dirty and barbarians and what not while they themselves needed lectures regarding hygiene that was and is being taught to small kids of our country. we took bath daily and knew how to keep ourselves and surroundings clean, I feel so sorry for their servants what they have to go through on daily basis, our ancestors were literally true gems. proud to be bhartiya. 😇
so in conclusion, realistically, we don’t actually wanna exist or be born in the regency era, we just wanna live in the fantasy world that Shonda Rhimes made up 😅
@@sheetalschoreography2853no she said it correctly lol Julia Quinn ‘s world was Shonda-fied three seasons ago. I’ll take Shonda’s TV version over the books 🤷🏽♀️
Oh my gosh I am reading this romance fantasy webtoon (online comic) and it's about this girl that gets sent back in time and she is always fainting because of the stench. It's called "shall we bathe, your grace" and it's hilarious.
And the bridgerton characters are very rich. Realistically most of us would have been low class back then. I know i would. Im pretty poor, so I def would have been very poor back then. Imagine how much worse it would be back then.
Watching this show remembering that when the British were throwing poop out the window, india had plumbing. But now after 200 years of British rule, we’re pooping on the streets
Yes! Also in southeast asia. We were bath twice a day since looonggg time ago. We even wash our genital after pee and poo. We did in the river back then, before that toilet thing.
That is because the water is warmer in warmer countries. This sponge bath style spot cleaning of the body would have taken place daily, or even multiple times a day, between changes of clothing, but submerging the entire body in water daily would have been either extortionately expensive for hot water or unbearably unpleasant with unfired water! It can be observed across Europe before electricity or alternate fuel sources that body submerging bathing gets more common in hotter areas. Not to say other aspects, such as sewage management, weren’t ahead of Europe in other continents for no good reason other than ingenuity!
@@crissy4445 there’s all kinds of climates in continental America. Do I recall European kings and queens of been proud of never taking showers or baths?
@@crissy4445 and aztecs invented the trash collection system, build a city on top of a huge lake, developed sewage and collection of human and animal waste and processed as manure. They changed clothes daily and cleaned daily. Used soaps to wash their bodies and clothing. Their cities and towns were impecable.
That's one of the reasons they wore a ton of petticoats/ layers underneath their dresses. They also held bouquets called "nosegays" to keep the "nose happy."
In india if you had periods at that time women were considered dirty they can't pray or live in the same house with others or touch anyone some people still do this to girls today one girl died by snake bite after she was forced to sleep outside house cause she was dirty due to her periods
Me neither. As a black British woman of Jamaican heritage, I would’ve been abused (in every way) on the sugar plantation, so the wealthy British could live indulgent lives.
Wow and British people say they came to civilised Indians when we were advance back then in terms of shampoo & bathing also in brushing teeth, nature perfumes & textile 😂 also in Indus Valley we get mention of toilets & proper hygiene I am so shocked about unhygienic things this high class British were lacking
People actually did brush their teeth, changed their underwear very frequently, and would wash the worst bits every day. They didn't have baths all the time because of the labour and costs of heating all that water, but personal cleanliness was super important back then. Admittedly going to the loo left much to be desired, but actually keeping one's self clean was expected and relatively easy
they didn't have baths because the Christian clergy preached that it was anathema towards baptism, where prior to the modern period were only held at least 2 times a year: after birth and during Pentecost
It should’ve been easy to wash armpits and groin area daily. They could also wipe down their entire body with a flannel. Only nasty people wouldn’t do that.
Soo the harappan and mohenjodaro civilization was much more advanced then the bridgeton civilization. Their drainage system was so much more efficient.
That's one of the reasons they wore a ton of petticoats/ layers underneath their dresses. They also held bouquets called "nosegays" to keep the "nose happy."
They wore chemises under their clothes to keep their outer clothing cleaner from body odor.. its not why they wore multiple layers.. multiple layers is fashion..
Meanwhile the “Aztec savages” bathed every day and had engineered how to bring fresh water into their city even going as far as making the system twice, one in use while the other was cleaned. I’m glad my ancestors were hella clean, listening to this video was tough 🤢🤮
I’m sorry for all the Europeans but it’s 21st century and the most challenging and hard issue for me when I made European trips, it was toilets! I am a Turkish person and even now, people think they are hygienic and my reaction was how do they live like this? In Paris, Barcelona… many cities, I don’t even say toilets were not clean in the malls, restaurants and hard to find soap etc. But even the clean ones, you only use toilet paper. We use both water and toilet paper
lol I remember going to Turkey in the 1970s and 80s...on several occasions I needed to use the toilet while I was out and about...all I got was 2 foot holes in the ground and a deeper hole to piss in which was almost impossible to do as a girl wearing trousers. Once at a restaurant I had to go to the middle of the kitchen where they had a porcelain toilet placed up on a stepped platform, with a fly curtain around it...I was 14 years old at the time, and had to try to pee in that toilet with a load of men looking at me through the curtain...far from civilised I am afraid...
@ yeah it’s been 50 years since you experience this. Unfortunatelly it’s 2024 and when I go to restaurants or malls in Europe (Paris, London, Berlin) there is no bidet (you don’t even know what it is), if we’re lucky just toilet paper.
Belted sanitary items were available into the 1980's. I know because my mother used them, and it is what she introduced to me first. This was in Australia. UK had similar. You had the belt and a stickerless pad, similar to today but the paper as each end was longer so you could tir or clip into the belt to hold it in place. From memory, it wasnt that bad. At school the female toilets included incinerators to burn the pads, plus if it was really heavy, you could add additional pads or even use rags.
i was also shooketh to learn recently that the black streets in this era were not because of tar or some sort of a road but rather because the ground would be covered with horse poop as the horses they used for transport would just poop anywhere and at anytime.
Love love love this video! I’ve always been obsessed with medieval histories and it has definitely crossed my mind many times about how their breath stank at that time and the amount of kissing and *you know what* they’ve been doing. Would love to see more informative videos like this❤️
This is where it became common manners for the gentleman to walk closest to the street, and let the lady walk on the inside. If someone was chucking the chamber pot contents out an upper window, it would more likely miss the person closest to the wall/awning/overhang and hit the person closest to the street. Also, the swage ran in the road, and if a carriage happened by and splashed the muck, the gentleman would be the one splashed and not the lady.
The white shirt fact is definitely true. It was stated that Ben Franklin only owned maybe 2 white shirts. In America (1776 and prior) it was rare to own more than one and mostly they were washed weekly. Some only had one and some slept in them, got up washed their hands and face and out the door they go 😂
well they thought the collapse of the Roman Empire was the "end" of civilization...not to mention Christianity was on the rise to make life horrible with their non-existent god & fairytale savior
Well to be fair the Roman plumbing was lined with lead and people were getting sick so the system was abandoned because they didn’t have a means of understanding why. The telescope and its inverse the microscope have made many subsequent inventions possible 😊😊😊
@@carriepickett2687 Still the Romans bathed often so where did they get the idea that it would make them sick? Also they spent years training on how one should conduct themselves in society but can’t go outside to relieve themselves and instead do their buisness in dinning halls 😂😂😂
in the Philippines during the Spanish Colonial Period, intimate body fluids was the reason why the traditional female dress of the Christianized population later adopted a peplum (over skirt made of much heavier material such as wool or cotton) due to the material of the main skirt usually of thin material such as silks over time the peplum became decorative and, depending on the time period, denoted either power (black peplums in the 19th century were all the rage) or had racial overtones (during the latter 19th century the higher social classes disdained the peplum as it looked similar to the lower classes' working apron, yet was slavishly adopted by the half-breed (half-Filipino native half-foreigner) caste) regarding the time period people can go without baths: *Louis XIV reportedly lived his whole life with only 2 baths* there was a reason why barbers had the blue, red, white color combo logo outside the shops: it *reflected their ancient tripartite occupation of haircutter, surgeon, & (unlicensed) dentist* black teeth was much more respected in Japan especially the women; *in Asia white teeth was seen as barbaric, akin to animals* (hence why Mongolians were treated as barbarians as they had no starch in their diet, the main factor of teeth yellowing)
Bridgerton was a fictitious place. Where they took baths every day and the never went to the bathroom. So we don’t need to think about that. They all smelled as if they just popped out of the dryer. At least in my mind. 😊
I have NEVER recovered from learning about just how filthy Versailles actually was. Every show and movie always portrays it as this glamourous glittering gold palace but people were literally sh**ting in the stairways and corners because originally there were no bathrooms and no such thing as indoor plumbing, and then you add a hot summer and no a/c...the stench alone. Again, when people glamorize the past, they don't think of these things. Ladies had satchels of flowers to carry to give them something pleasant to smell. What's just super gross is most people who did bathe did it in these cess pits, or they would have water brought into the home for the tub and every family member would use the same exact bath water because it was a lot of effort to lug in that water by hand. Thank you 21st century!!!! This is my era.
There is a saying in Tamil koozhanulum kulithu kudi , kanthai annalum kasaki kattu Mens, Even if you have only porridge bathe yourself before drinking & even if you have only a torn dress wash it everything before wearing. They used neem sticks to brush, herbal scents , soap powders For both body and hair . Our Indian ancestors we so neat and clean but these Europeans think that they teach cleanliness to us😅
Would imagine those cesspools originally had potently fragrant plants around them to help mask the smell like witch hazel combines with the flushing of fragrant water after waste. Would just make sense to design gardens to help combat the many smells wafting around the property. Edit: not that it would effectively combat the stink at all times but it would be helpful on average.
Didn't they dig wells back then? In my country, Indonesia, people back then didn't always rely on the rivers for clean water, because yes they were not always clean, especially for the people who lived along the downstream. Instead, they used water from the wells that always provided clean water, and the wells were like everywhere. They were easy to find, like every household must have one, especially for the people who lived far from the rivers. Taking a bath every day has been a must until today. Yes, many people body-wasted our rivers back then, but they also used to have restrooms separated from the house. The room was not literary a room like today's restroom. It was only a little space in the backyard, faaar from the main building, so it wouldn't pollute the house. People just dug the soil in the ground and wasted there, buried it, and cleaned themselves with clean water from the well afterward. So they didn't keep human waste in the house even only a while, yucks. Never heard that kind of thing in my country.
It's never far from the back of my mind when I think about the idea of time travel or even living in the past that my nose would probably NOT be able to tolerate being there.
water was rarely safe to drink. If they didn't have a well, you would have to get your water from the same place all the sewage was running into. Drinking the water was often a good way to die. Then imagining having to bathe in that same water...no wonder they only wiped themselves down.
There was a city a long time ago that had pluming and this city and way less diseases it’s was very much destroyed like it much of the houses were not left, it’s was weird
.... not having a bath/shower does not mean they were dirty. the washing bowl and cloth were normal back then and able to clean ppl just as well as a bathtub. so they were not dirtier and cleaning their undergarments (shifts, shirts etc) also kept them clean (as in, kept the person clean, and protected the outer layers from sweat and body odor) so at least the upper class were not dirty/stinky at all
There are even paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries that SHOW people washing themselves. People just looove to spread the myth that everyone was stinky, even though they literally painted themselves washing!
of course you do🤷🏻♀️ if one is born and grown up in the society where smell is treated normal, they grow up getting used to the smell; it's not like people in the comment section thinks😂 we all live in a clean society which is why it seems scary to us
Totally. And fast too. I worked at a big box store and for some reason, they decided to ship a pallet of steer manure in the truck with the rest of the freight. That truck took 3 days to reach us, and it was 100+ degrees outside. When I walked into work, it was like the sewer backed up, times 5. Ligit gagging. 30-45 minutes later...couldn't smell a thing. it was like any other day.
You absolutely can, but you might find it easier to maintain the clothing in the way they were designed to be cared for, if you are wearing stays, shifts, and natural fibres. And remember that the caps and chemisettes had to be starched, and ironed
because we all have jobs to do😂 if you are a living in high society and the only thing you have to do ALL DAY is dance/walk in parks/try to find a partner, I guess we can dress like that 😭😭
It's nothing short of amazing that they managed to survive that. The stench is just the tip of the iceberg. The risk of inevitable diseases must have been just rediculous. And the water was absolutely the source of disease at the time. 💩ing in it tends to have that effect.
I am 76 years old now. When I was little, we only ever bathed once a week. We had a bathroom and a hot water geyser, but it was still only once a week. Knickers were not changed every day either. My husband and his brother had to bath in the water both his parents had used. I am horrified now, but it didn't seem bad at the time. Hair washing was once a week too and my Dad wore Brylcream every day. Yuk!
The fact that now is the best time for balls and parties that happened before because people can stay more hygenic and not suffer from the smells in the room, but we're the ones who are either in their houses or in parties that are absolutely not like how they used to be is just sad
Teeth started decaying hard when sugar was introduced in people's diet. This was during the Tudor era. Sugar was a luxury product, so it were the rich people who suffered from tooth decay the most. Funny enough, a "remedy" for bad breath was candy laced with mint, which lead to more tooth decay.
What BBC and Bridgerton gets wrong all the time: YOU WEAR SOMETHING UNDERNEATH THE CORSET!!! That is the right way of wearing corsets. You are never suppose to have bear skin next to a corset!!! Never. It was interesting. The Great Stink!!! So glad I missed that. Take care and have fun!!! 😎😃😎
"Father, why are we fighting with the neighbors again?" "Well, son! Back in your great grandfather's day, the neighbors cess pool overfilled in to ours!" "So that's why grandfather's always saying the neighbors are full of sh*t!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I used to use dress shields back in the day, I don’t see them anymore, I recently cut a panty liner for this use😂 prevent sweat stains in the heat is still a concern lol
London politely refused to address the problem until the death of Prince Albert. Then there was interest in studying plague, epidemic and pollution in London. Drinking water wells on proximity to sewage pools. The great Embackment on the north shore of the Thames concealed London's first proper sewer. Also during the Regency Beau Brumel popularized the wearing of clean linens and garments as high fashion...though at ruinous expense.
And they had the audacity to call the Indians and the Africans dirty after all of this?
I always heard the African taught them how to bathe
Yup
💯 they called Indians and Africans barbaric 😐😐😐
😂😂😂
Like indians had much more luxurious than they ever could be look at historical pictures they were kinda envious of what we had the wealth of india was something best in the world
That means english people were actually savages while Indians and Africans were practising more hygine.
EXACTLY ❤❤❤
Well
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Basically
Europeans got the soap from Arabs when crusade went to Jerusalem. Arabs thought they were barbarians who smelled bad. They just evolved differently.
God bless the people who invented plumbing and toilet bowls with a flush.
Engineers ❤❤❤❤
By Egyptians
Egyptians and arab did
The Romans also had plumbing back then but thanks Egypt
It was black African Egyptians that created irrigation systems that turn into plumbing.
so basically, the sharma family when they came from india were the cleanest people there
India was far more developed in terms of hygiene and waste management
Haha so rightly said 😂
True
Exactly. I'm so proud for that . @@pruthamardikar9622
The sharma family never existed btw lol
Makes you realise how lucky we are in today’s world of bathrooms & all the products available to us.
@@P55999some people have a shower and don’t use a flannel. They wash their hair and simply allow the water to run down their bodies, and that is true!
Then it’s actually true when they say that we’re “richer” than most rich people back then. We have the most comfort and hygiene than they ever had 😅
Absolutely. Imagine peeing in a pot and keeping it in your room all night, plus no showers ew
@@GH-fb9dhor having to call someone to come get it to dump it immediately. 😩
Oh definitely. There's an old saying that goes " Don't throw the baby out with the bath water". Specifically, because way back in the day IF you were lucky to bath once a week the husband got in the tub first, then all the other boy children, then the wife, girls and finally at the very end you'd bath the babies. All in the same water! 🤢
It's also the reason spring and summer weddings are popular. Folks would go the entire winter with no real bath, come spring water holes would thaw and people would go wash themselves and all their clothes.
@@Oldfarmlady🤢
So, thats why anthony was so obssessed with kate's smell. It was very potent or she smelled good/clean. 😭
Exactly because she’s Indian
Also the person you are most likely to mate successfully with will naturally smell good to you. It's actually science. That's why people who are dating like to sleep with clothes their SO has worn, if they are apart
@@kikidevine694
True ! One of the reasons I dated my husband was the smell of his skin. Not a cologne or soap just his own skin scent. I know it’s bizarre but it’s true 😂
I don’t think you watched the whole thing properly from the beginning. Everyone stank 😂. Sooooo, everyone stank. Regardless of how much lavender water was used by women they still stank.
@@jahmarl8787?? The comment is referring to the fact that Kate is Indian, not British. So she doesn't conform to the terrible British regency era hygiene standards, as she wasn't raised there. Indian people at the time bathed frequently and had a good level of hygiene,much better than there British counterparts, so therefore Kate likely had much better standard of hygiene, and so she smelled a lot better than most people.
And in India we had poets from 3rd Century BC who wrote "even if you are having a simple porridge, have a bath first before eating" and "even if you are clothed in rags, wash it before wearing"
கூழானாலும் குளித்துக் குடி, கந்தையானாலும் கசக்கிக் கட்டு என்பவை தமிழ்ப் பழமொழிகள்.
@@IshwaryaLakshmi60 Yes, I translated these two Pazhamozhis into English. I am a Tamilian.
😌😌😌 exactly 💯
Yet u indians poop in railtracks and literally anywhere till now
do any of you still follow that? I heard indians dont bathe every day even thought it's hot there
I feel so lucky to be born in this era after knowing all this
I love my toilet now 😁
It is so hard to imagine these amazing love stories when everyone stunk, literally.
Who wants to dance, have sex, and/or kiss someone when they stink so much.
I always wondered how women dealt with their periods back then. Now I know.
Imagine oral back then 😂🤣. Extra “flavour ✨✨
Yeah, it makes the love story just devastating honesty. They smell so bad but I guess they "love good".
People are quick to adapt to their environment. Think about it. If today everyone you knew stinked horrible including you, it would've just become the norm. Infact, the people in the Regency era were probably so used to body oder that they didn't even smell it
@@plamiguha4263 true
@@plamiguha4263 Correct, they become immune to the smell and become normal to them
Everyone adapts to the era they live in. If everyone had bad breath and rotten teeth then it would not have been a big deal. They would have become “nose blind” etc to those things. It was what it was. Many years from now the generations would look back and wonder how we lived the way we are living now.
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True
People seem to never realize that. In the 50's it was pit shields and pads with belts no adhesive back than,plus they were wrapped in brown paper at the store.
Well said
Hahaha yes
This is all I will be thinking about when I binge the next season lmao🤣
seriously they had the audacity to call Indians uncivilized, dirty and barbarians and what not while they themselves needed lectures regarding hygiene that was and is being taught to small kids of our country. we took bath daily and knew how to keep ourselves and surroundings clean, I feel so sorry for their servants what they have to go through on daily basis, our ancestors were literally true gems. proud to be bhartiya. 😇
now they developed and we are far behind
@@farihaislam4716 lol how? And the only reason they developed is because of loot from south asia and Africa
so in conclusion, realistically, we don’t actually wanna exist or be born in the regency era, we just wanna live in the fantasy world that Shonda Rhimes made up 😅
Actually its Julia Quinn
@@sheetalschoreography2853no she said it correctly lol Julia Quinn ‘s world was Shonda-fied three seasons ago. I’ll take Shonda’s TV version over the books 🤷🏽♀️
Facts 😂
For this reason alone, I do thank God that I live in the time of modern plumbing.
Oh my gosh I am reading this romance fantasy webtoon (online comic) and it's about this girl that gets sent back in time and she is always fainting because of the stench. It's called "shall we bathe, your grace" and it's hilarious.
i'm going to read🤣
It's in my list. I will read it.....
It was in my reading list❤
Which website do you read it on? Tapas usually have a lot of isekai comics.
@@brissygirl4997I’ve just checked, it’s on manta (can’t find it on tapas or webtoon)
And then there are people wishing they were born back then 😂😂😂
Right. So weird.
right and not to mention most women were NOT treated like the women in bridgerton😭
And the bridgerton characters are very rich. Realistically most of us would have been low class back then. I know i would. Im pretty poor, so I def would have been very poor back then. Imagine how much worse it would be back then.
Fr😂
we had born back then.
Watching this show remembering that when the British were throwing poop out the window, india had plumbing. But now after 200 years of British rule, we’re pooping on the streets
Excellent, true 💯
@@leenamakwhy are you pooping on the streets? Who is making you do this?
Thank God for AFRICANS who taught cleanliness and hygiene. True royalty. I would say more, but imma hush. Some nerve .....
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That was in Europe, most other continents we practice daily bath or showers, specially native/indigenous of the American continent.
Yes! Also in southeast asia. We were bath twice a day since looonggg time ago. We even wash our genital after pee and poo. We did in the river back then, before that toilet thing.
That is because the water is warmer in warmer countries. This sponge bath style spot cleaning of the body would have taken place daily, or even multiple times a day, between changes of clothing, but submerging the entire body in water daily would have been either extortionately expensive for hot water or unbearably unpleasant with unfired water! It can be observed across Europe before electricity or alternate fuel sources that body submerging bathing gets more common in hotter areas. Not to say other aspects, such as sewage management, weren’t ahead of Europe in other continents for no good reason other than ingenuity!
@@crissy4445 there’s all kinds of climates in continental America. Do I recall European kings and queens of been proud of never taking showers or baths?
@@crissy4445 and aztecs invented the trash collection system, build a city on top of a huge lake, developed sewage and collection of human and animal waste and processed as manure. They changed clothes daily and cleaned daily. Used soaps to wash their bodies and clothing. Their cities and towns were impecable.
That is why the death rate was so high, hygiene is important...
And why so many died at childbirth,,, imagine how nasty it was
I'm glad I'm a 21 century woman.
i can't possibly imagine having a period in the regency era, respect for the girlies that did
That's one of the reasons they wore a ton of petticoats/ layers underneath their dresses. They also held bouquets called "nosegays" to keep the "nose happy."
In india if you had periods at that time women were considered dirty they can't pray or live in the same house with others or touch anyone some people still do this to girls today one girl died by snake bite after she was forced to sleep outside house cause she was dirty due to her periods
No thank you for releasing this because I've been thinking about these things since season one😭😭
I couldn't live back then...
You wouldn’t know any better if you lived back then.
Me neither. As a black British woman of Jamaican heritage, I would’ve been abused (in every way) on the sugar plantation, so the wealthy British could live indulgent lives.
I know, I shower twice a day and if I work out I will shower 3 times a day. I love the dresses from back then.
Wow and British people say they came to civilised Indians when we were advance back then in terms of shampoo & bathing also in brushing teeth, nature perfumes & textile 😂 also in Indus Valley we get mention of toilets & proper hygiene I am so shocked about unhygienic things this high class British were lacking
People actually did brush their teeth, changed their underwear very frequently, and would wash the worst bits every day. They didn't have baths all the time because of the labour and costs of heating all that water, but personal cleanliness was super important back then. Admittedly going to the loo left much to be desired, but actually keeping one's self clean was expected and relatively easy
they didn't have baths because the Christian clergy preached that it was anathema towards baptism, where prior to the modern period were only held at least 2 times a year: after birth and during Pentecost
that’s everything the video mentions, yeah
@@盧璘壽로인수 People still cleaned themselves by wiping their skin with rags or sponges. There are even 18th and 19th century paintings of this!
@@盧璘壽로인수 hell no the devil is a lie I'm taking my bath hot and cold
It should’ve been easy to wash armpits and groin area daily. They could also wipe down their entire body with a flannel. Only nasty people wouldn’t do that.
Soo the harappan and mohenjodaro civilization was much more advanced then the bridgeton civilization.
Their drainage system was so much more efficient.
Everytime I see a ball on the show, I think about them just squatting in corners in the ballroom
That's one of the reasons they wore a ton of petticoats/ layers underneath their dresses. They also held bouquets called "nosegays" to keep the "nose happy."
They wore chemises under their clothes to keep their outer clothing cleaner from body odor.. its not why they wore multiple layers.. multiple layers is fashion..
Meanwhile the “Aztec savages” bathed every day and had engineered how to bring fresh water into their city even going as far as making the system twice, one in use while the other was cleaned. I’m glad my ancestors were hella clean, listening to this video was tough 🤢🤮
I’m sorry for all the Europeans but it’s 21st century and the most challenging and hard issue for me when I made European trips, it was toilets! I am a Turkish person and even now, people think they are hygienic and my reaction was how do they live like this? In Paris, Barcelona… many cities, I don’t even say toilets were not clean in the malls, restaurants and hard to find soap etc. But even the clean ones, you only use toilet paper. We use both water and toilet paper
lol I remember going to Turkey in the 1970s and 80s...on several occasions I needed to use the toilet while I was out and about...all I got was 2 foot holes in the ground and a deeper hole to piss in which was almost impossible to do as a girl wearing trousers. Once at a restaurant I had to go to the middle of the kitchen where they had a porcelain toilet placed up on a stepped platform, with a fly curtain around it...I was 14 years old at the time, and had to try to pee in that toilet with a load of men looking at me through the curtain...far from civilised I am afraid...
@ yeah it’s been 50 years since you experience this. Unfortunatelly it’s 2024 and when I go to restaurants or malls in Europe (Paris, London, Berlin) there is no bidet (you don’t even know what it is), if we’re lucky just toilet paper.
Belted sanitary items were available into the 1980's.
I know because my mother used them, and it is what she introduced to me first. This was in Australia. UK had similar. You had the belt and a stickerless pad, similar to today but the paper as each end was longer so you could tir or clip into the belt to hold it in place. From memory, it wasnt that bad. At school the female toilets included incinerators to burn the pads, plus if it was really heavy, you could add additional pads or even use rags.
Yup I remember those.
Me too horrible bulky things especially at school nightmare
Gross. Sorry some cultures were advanced in hygiene and some not. The English were definitely not
Fr. They be mocking us Indians for using water even now💀💀
@@whoisnimo fr, lmao us “uncivilized folk” have BEEN clean for ages. They only just now found out about bidets 💀💀💀
@@whoisnimo till now they call themselves hygienic and use paper to rub a$$.
Im sure indians wash thier body more then the white people back then and nowadasys too@@whoisnimo
As a normal person this video make me feel so much better abt my life
i was also shooketh to learn recently that the black streets in this era were not because of tar or some sort of a road but rather because the ground would be covered with horse poop as the horses they used for transport would just poop anywhere and at anytime.
They still do
I would much rather smell horse sh*t instead of human sh*t
Oh my goodness😢
wow
Wah, I feel like Ancient Asians were more more hygienic. Our ancient ruins and books say " We took a full bath every morning "❤😂
Also well-made Toilets, a proper drainage system and public bathrooms. All of these are now ruins.👍
Well thank god this was altered because if not that would be alll I can think of. No toothbrush 🪥 no toilets, or running water!
😭😭 omg imagine all the romantic? Or any scene really but maybe they are so used to the smell that they dont notice?
No toilet paper, no tampons!
@@MeretSeger I draw a line at tampon and I just got finished putting in one like no that’s a need for me 😭☕️
Love love love this video! I’ve always been obsessed with medieval histories and it has definitely crossed my mind many times about how their breath stank at that time and the amount of kissing and *you know what* they’ve been doing. Would love to see more informative videos like this❤️
This is where it became common manners for the gentleman to walk closest to the street, and let the lady walk on the inside. If someone was chucking the chamber pot contents out an upper window, it would more likely miss the person closest to the wall/awning/overhang and hit the person closest to the street. Also, the swage ran in the road, and if a carriage happened by and splashed the muck, the gentleman would be the one splashed and not the lady.
you're joking right?
The white shirt fact is definitely true. It was stated that Ben Franklin only owned maybe 2 white shirts. In America (1776 and prior) it was rare to own more than one and mostly they were washed weekly. Some only had one and some slept in them, got up washed their hands and face and out the door they go 😂
Thank god we got the better end of the stick 😭😭😭😭
And a similar saying actually comes from the stick used to wipe a## in roman times...nobody wants to toich the s£!£ end of the stick...
@@missd411 lmfao I’m rolling😂😂😂😂😂😂💀
My thing is the Romans who came way before them left them with some sort of decent hygiene habits and they just decided to regress? 😂😂😂
well they thought the collapse of the Roman Empire was the "end" of civilization...not to mention Christianity was on the rise to make life horrible with their non-existent god & fairytale savior
not to mention the Sumerians
Well to be fair the Roman plumbing was lined with lead and people were getting sick so the system was abandoned because they didn’t have a means of understanding why. The telescope and its inverse the microscope have made many subsequent inventions possible 😊😊😊
@@carriepickett2687 Still the Romans bathed often so where did they get the idea that it would make them sick? Also they spent years training on how one should conduct themselves in society but can’t go outside to relieve themselves and instead do their buisness in dinning halls 😂😂😂
@@zaziliciousLead poisoning from water…
in the Philippines during the Spanish Colonial Period, intimate body fluids was the reason why the traditional female dress of the Christianized population later adopted a peplum (over skirt made of much heavier material such as wool or cotton) due to the material of the main skirt usually of thin material such as silks
over time the peplum became decorative and, depending on the time period, denoted either power (black peplums in the 19th century were all the rage) or had racial overtones (during the latter 19th century the higher social classes disdained the peplum as it looked similar to the lower classes' working apron, yet was slavishly adopted by the half-breed (half-Filipino native half-foreigner) caste)
regarding the time period people can go without baths: *Louis XIV reportedly lived his whole life with only 2 baths*
there was a reason why barbers had the blue, red, white color combo logo outside the shops: it *reflected their ancient tripartite occupation of haircutter, surgeon, & (unlicensed) dentist*
black teeth was much more respected in Japan especially the women; *in Asia white teeth was seen as barbaric, akin to animals*
(hence why Mongolians were treated as barbarians as they had no starch in their diet, the main factor of teeth yellowing)
Harrapa n Mohenjo Daro had better sanitation facilities than regency era mansions 😂
Bridgerton was a fictitious place. Where they took baths every day and the never went to the bathroom. So we don’t need to think about that. They all smelled as if they just popped out of the dryer. At least in my mind. 😊
Yeah, bridgerton is fantasy, not even the clothes are accurate. it's all fantasized
I’ll never watch Bridgeton the same way 😂😂😢
I need one of those copper bathtubs for myself please
If you look at the Temps it was much much colder at that time. But they still stank
Thames
@@monicaarisman4293that’s not what they were referring to lol
I have NEVER recovered from learning about just how filthy Versailles actually was. Every show and movie always portrays it as this glamourous glittering gold palace but people were literally sh**ting in the stairways and corners because originally there were no bathrooms and no such thing as indoor plumbing, and then you add a hot summer and no a/c...the stench alone. Again, when people glamorize the past, they don't think of these things. Ladies had satchels of flowers to carry to give them something pleasant to smell. What's just super gross is most people who did bathe did it in these cess pits, or they would have water brought into the home for the tub and every family member would use the same exact bath water because it was a lot of effort to lug in that water by hand. Thank you 21st century!!!! This is my era.
me: do i really wanna know?
my brain: sure, you eat breakfast, just watch it.
my stomach: 🙄
There is a saying in Tamil koozhanulum kulithu kudi , kanthai annalum kasaki kattu
Mens,
Even if you have only porridge bathe yourself before drinking & even if you have only a torn dress wash it everything before wearing.
They used neem sticks to brush, herbal scents , soap powders For both body and hair .
Our Indian ancestors we so neat and clean but these Europeans think that they teach cleanliness to us😅
The irony...
When Anthony had Kate fighting for her life in the garden 😂
Wdym 😂
Would imagine those cesspools originally had potently fragrant plants around them to help mask the smell like witch hazel combines with the flushing of fragrant water after waste. Would just make sense to design gardens to help combat the many smells wafting around the property.
Edit: not that it would effectively combat the stink at all times but it would be helpful on average.
Didn't they dig wells back then? In my country, Indonesia, people back then didn't always rely on the rivers for clean water, because yes they were not always clean, especially for the people who lived along the downstream. Instead, they used water from the wells that always provided clean water, and the wells were like everywhere. They were easy to find, like every household must have one, especially for the people who lived far from the rivers. Taking a bath every day has been a must until today. Yes, many people body-wasted our rivers back then, but they also used to have restrooms separated from the house. The room was not literary a room like today's restroom. It was only a little space in the backyard, faaar from the main building, so it wouldn't pollute the house. People just dug the soil in the ground and wasted there, buried it, and cleaned themselves with clean water from the well afterward. So they didn't keep human waste in the house even only a while, yucks. Never heard that kind of thing in my country.
this needs to go viral
It's never far from the back of my mind when I think about the idea of time travel or even living in the past that my nose would probably NOT be able to tolerate being there.
The barber doctor from flapjack makes sense now
I’m glad I live with modern plumbing
This is excellent work! Well done 🎉
I wonder about bad breath too! They don't seem to have water bottles or drink much water. Did breath mints exist?
They would either chew parsley or peppermint leaves.
water wasn't even potable at the time, only for fountains & private baths
obviously not
A breath mint does nothing for bad breath
water was rarely safe to drink. If they didn't have a well, you would have to get your water from the same place all the sewage was running into. Drinking the water was often a good way to die. Then imagining having to bathe in that same water...no wonder they only wiped themselves down.
There was a city a long time ago that had pluming and this city and way less diseases it’s was very much destroyed like it much of the houses were not left, it’s was weird
Interesting video! When im watching this show often I'm thinking damn, I know ya'll stink💀 lmao
The young woman washing her hair looks just like Justine Dorn from Frontier Patriot.
I think that’s her! I recognize her
.... not having a bath/shower does not mean they were dirty.
the washing bowl and cloth were normal back then and able to clean ppl just as well as a bathtub. so they were not dirtier
and cleaning their undergarments (shifts, shirts etc) also kept them clean (as in, kept the person clean, and protected the outer layers from sweat and body odor)
so at least the upper class were not dirty/stinky at all
People were as clean as they could afford to be
There are even paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries that SHOW people washing themselves. People just looove to spread the myth that everyone was stinky, even though they literally painted themselves washing!
Yes! Thank you! 😂 I don't think she reschearched that topic very well.
nah they ain’t know about that till black people taught them😂
I guess you get use to the smell…
Never
of course you do🤷🏻♀️ if one is born and grown up in the society where smell is treated normal, they grow up getting used to the smell; it's not like people in the comment section thinks😂 we all live in a clean society which is why it seems scary to us
Totally. And fast too. I worked at a big box store and for some reason, they decided to ship a pallet of steer manure in the truck with the rest of the freight. That truck took 3 days to reach us, and it was 100+ degrees outside. When I walked into work, it was like the sewer backed up, times 5. Ligit gagging. 30-45 minutes later...couldn't smell a thing. it was like any other day.
@@Melissa-wx4luwow
Why cant we dress like that now that we have the technology to be clean? 😫
You absolutely can, but you might find it easier to maintain the clothing in the way they were designed to be cared for, if you are wearing stays, shifts, and natural fibres. And remember that the caps and chemisettes had to be starched, and ironed
because we all have jobs to do😂 if you are a living in high society and the only thing you have to do ALL DAY is dance/walk in parks/try to find a partner, I guess we can dress like that 😭😭
The dresses would be so expensive, that only the rick would be able to do it. Just like back then.
It's nothing short of amazing that they managed to survive that. The stench is just the tip of the iceberg. The risk of inevitable diseases must have been just rediculous. And the water was absolutely the source of disease at the time. 💩ing in it tends to have that effect.
wait i lowkey want that dress shield in 2024? absorbs sweat and smell i’m sold bro
I believe other cultures were way ahead of Europeans in cleanliness.
Now Elizabeth Bennet walking in the mud makes a lot more sense now
I’ve always wondered this! Thank you for posting
I was thinking of their toilet need the whole time I watched the well polished and presented bridgerton series 😂 idk why, it may sound crazy!
Lady, please, they had baths and night pots and toilet rooms. Sanitation existed albeit not in a convenient form we have now.
I am 76 years old now. When I was little, we only ever bathed once a week. We had a bathroom and a hot water geyser, but it was still only once a week. Knickers were not changed every day either. My husband and his brother had to bath in the water both his parents had used. I am horrified now, but it didn't seem bad at the time. Hair washing was once a week too and my Dad wore Brylcream every day. Yuk!
And these ppl are seen hooking up all the time randomly...How horrid the smells...
And this is why if I were to live in that era, I would choose to live in Turkey. They didn’t have this problem. It was Europe for the most part
People saying thanks for plumping, some of us in African villages can't relate. We handled waste with sense. Smh
The fact that now is the best time for balls and parties that happened before because people can stay more hygenic and not suffer from the smells in the room, but we're the ones who are either in their houses or in parties that are absolutely not like how they used to be is just sad
Thank God I wasn't born back then!!
I think I need to take a bath righ now hahahahahahaa I feel dirty 😂
I'm sorry but this is so disgusting and the crazy part that these things actually happened
Teeth started decaying hard when sugar was introduced in people's diet. This was during the Tudor era. Sugar was a luxury product, so it were the rich people who suffered from tooth decay the most. Funny enough, a "remedy" for bad breath was candy laced with mint, which lead to more tooth decay.
and europeans really thought they were the master race 😂
What BBC and Bridgerton gets wrong all the time: YOU WEAR SOMETHING UNDERNEATH THE CORSET!!! That is the right way of wearing corsets. You are never suppose to have bear skin next to a corset!!! Never. It was interesting. The Great Stink!!! So glad I missed that. Take care and have fun!!! 😎😃😎
"Father, why are we fighting with the neighbors again?"
"Well, son! Back in your great grandfather's day, the neighbors cess pool overfilled in to ours!"
"So that's why grandfather's always saying the neighbors are full of sh*t!"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
BRO the thumbnail…
LOL the thumbnail + the robotic voice make the video look so shitpost-ey 😂 good info tho
what happened to d/t herbs and plants? didn't they hv no clue
They probably did sweat but maybe less than you'd think as their clothes were made of natural fabrics
And everyone was excited about the carriage scene all I could think of is how crazy the smell had to be 🥴😭
I'd like to live in my delusions that bridgerton was a beautiful smelling alternative of the regency period, thank you very much. 👏
I will never watch Bridgerton the same way again💀💀
Existia bicarbonato de sódio na era da regencia?
Me after watching this : sit on my toilet like a king. Feeling richer than those nobles during bridgerton era 😎
How can i watch the 3rd season now without thinking of their smell 😅
Fascinating...
The pit shields are actually really clever and would still be useful for today
I used to use dress shields back in the day, I don’t see them anymore, I recently cut a panty liner for this use😂 prevent sweat stains in the heat is still a concern lol
London politely refused to address the problem until the death of Prince Albert. Then there was interest in studying plague, epidemic and pollution in London. Drinking water wells on proximity to sewage pools. The great Embackment on the north shore of the Thames concealed London's first proper sewer.
Also during the Regency Beau Brumel popularized the wearing of clean linens and garments as high fashion...though at ruinous expense.
I thought they would have used the privy? I didn’t think they were still going in corners like the dark ages during this time?
Fenugreek makes u smell like maple syrup even when sweating