@RJELevi tweeted abt #Tudor English linen-changing as a hygenic practice. ( I learned from reading Ruth Goodman's How to be a Tudor, too)
I am now reading #19thCentury #DressReform primary sources & wonder:
Has the date of dramatic shift (as it were) from linen to wool as most-virtuous underwear fabric been pinpointed as to WHEN and BY WHOM?

And WHY? Hygenic, healthy, were the claims, yes; but what moral and economic criteria were involved, bc moral reformers gonna moralize + capitalism is.

After much searching, I have found a scanned archive copy of Anna Muthesius' Das Eigenkleid der Frau, being a 1903 seminal work on aesthetic/art reform dress, with cover design by Frances MacDonald MacNair of the Glasgow Four / Glasgow School of Art

It's here, if you want to see it too
https://www.e-rara.ch/zhdk/doi/10.3931/e-rara-85914

#ArtsandCrafts #Aesthetic #Jugendstil #DressReform #ArtReformDress #HistoryBounding #Reformkleidung #MyWorthGownIstEinEigenkleid

Interesting short article (2022-10-09) by Mat Coward (https://www.matcoward.com) about the Snark illustrator Henry Holiday: https://rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-britannia-cf0.

#HenryHoliday, #London1839, #muralist, #sculptor, #painter, #illustrator, #StainedGlassWindows, #PreRaphaelites, #Aglaia (the journal of the Healthy and Artistic Dress Union), #DressReform, #RationalDressSociety, #dress, #LadyHarberton, #WilliamEwartGladstone, #TheHuntingOfTheSnark