King William III's underwear | Fashion unpicked | V&A
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- This rare and fascinating 18th-century undershirt has a provenance connected to King William III of England...
Serving as underwear in the 1700s, shirts were usually worn out and then recycled to make paper, but this one has survived for centuries. It is made of the finest quality Dutch linen and stamped with the initials 'HW' - perhaps Henry Watkins, the King's Gentleman of the Bedchamber. Watch as we uncover the shirt's secrets and prepare it for display in the British Galleries.
Find out more menswear in the 'Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear' exhibition: www.vam.ac.uk/...
Discover more in our Fashion Collection: www.vam.ac.uk/...
See the shirt in our British Galleries, Room 54! collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O364847/shirt-unknown/
Imagine a pair of your Boxer Shorts in a Museum in 200 years!
We've got some pretty funky ones collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?q=boxer+shorts&year_made_from=&year_made_to=
My husband and I were in an art museum which had a lot of 16th to 18th century furniture. And he had basically the same thought process of "These were just everyday objects to them and now they are in a museum. Is my bowl going to be in a museum in a few hundred or a thousand years from now?"
@@HitomiMudo Nobody ever thought G-Plan furniture would considered 'classic' but the early models are worth a lot of money these days. I think the future classics will be some of the designer label furniture that's on sale now! Maybe IKEA though, you never know! 😂
I like to learn something new every day. Today I learned that shirts were considered underwear in the 18th century.
Normally we think of underwear as something that's meant (for the most part) to be covered by outer clothes and unseen (except perhaps for the collar and cuffs), and yet so much care was put into the making of them. The ones that were shown from your collection are gorgeous, and very intricately designed all over.
Make sense of the word “Underwear”
A fascinating film, thank you for all the details
Linen is an ideal material for an undergarment because it’s breathable and acts as a gentle exfoliator. It’s easy to assume that people in the past were all filthy and smelly because they didn’t bathe the way we do, but they kept clean in their own ways. Of course there were people who practiced bad hygiene but that is still the case today
Wow! Thank you so much for talking about this and uploading this gem for us to see, this is so fascinating. I love to see these functional items that have sooo much detail and craft and artistry put into them. Such high quality.
I love the V & A
So glad I came across this channel!
I would kill to find linen this fine
Seriously. I don't think I've ever seen a modern linen finer than 60 threads per inch, and even that's not common.
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Looking forward to seeing it, thank you
So interesting about the rag man and linens ending up in linen paper!
The condition of this shirt is amazingly good, considering its age and the fact it’s been used by 3 successive owners.
Not what I was expecting from the title lol. Pretty glad I was wrong lol.
Brian May looks like him!
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What are the marks across the front of it?
Why is it knee length?
I’m guessing since the shirt will be tucked into the breeches it has to be long enough to stay in place while still being loose enough to allow free movement. Natural fabrics are only really stretchy if they’re cut on the bias but for something so basic it was probably easier (and less wasteful) to make it longer and looser instead. Knee length seems a little excessive but it was made for royalty
Why no gloves ?
The princedom of Orange is not 'one of the principalities of Holland'. Holland doesn't have any principalities, and never has. Orange isn't even in the Netherlands, it's in France. The title Prince of Orange dates fron the time kings and nobles could, through inheritance, own land all over the place
It's location is in modern-day France. However, it was part of the Dutch Republic before being captured during the Franco-Dutch war in the 1670s.
@@BlueberryMom It was never part of the Dutch Republic. The principality of Orange belonged to the Princes of Orange and formally had no connection to the Republic whatsoever. There wasn't even a personal union, because the princes of Orange were not sovereign lords of The Netherlands (though they did own a lot of land there), but rather very powerful functionaries. When the House of Orange at last did gain souvereignty over The Netherlands, the principality of Orange had already been lost to the French.
I would love sheets made like this!!
Are you sure people changed their underwear each day ? please explain how you cam to this conclusion .
It's historically accurate that shifts and linens were changed once a day, if not more. And it's not that hard to find evidence of it, considering the change to modern clothing happened only about 100 years ago, if not less. So your great grandmother wore shifts under her corset and gown
@@HitomiMudo All I am asking is where is this evidence. I know that during the 1900 's, and for many years after middle class men were changing the cuffs and collars of their shirts but not the shirt which could last for a week ! and I know wealthy women changed their dresses two to three times a day but underwear ? please site your sources so that I can see for myself
The nobles and the wealthy even changed several times a day. At the court of Louis XIV in Versailles, the king, his entourage and the courtiers didn't wash with water (which was considered unhealthy) but they did a "toilette sèche", where basically they rubbed their skin with a dry cloth and some vinegar or perfume to wash away the sweat, and put on a clean shirt every time they had had a sweat, exercising or hunting or playing paume (the ancestor of tennis).