The Renaissance Period Undergarments

The history of undergarments for men, almost 7000 years ago, the archaeologists, found the prehistoric men wore loin cloths under their clothes. In the two thousand BC, it was the Egyptians who wore a loincloth that under their skirts. They wore loin cloths, with the intention that these paintings would be useful to them after their death. As regards the Greeks, she wrapped around him from the neck and ends just above the knee, would be the side of the screen to open, but they were fastened with pins around. But they have no clothes, but wore under their slaves under their clothes.

Another type of underwear that were worn during this time, the subligaculum that a loincloth in the stomach, how to wear shorts. In particular, this type of underwear was worn by the athletes, stage actors.

It was during the medieval period, that was the underwear sense. It was an important piece of clothing worn by all strata of the population. Braies replace loin cloths. In Europe, was the fashion statement of her tree and underwear used to give a good shape. During that time, the fashion is an extremely important priority, and among various types of garments, such as cod piece created, stockings, tops.

During the time of the Renaissance, braies was very short and the codpiece was an essential prerequisite to an extent of braies were worn as pants, that a common date and worn on the other hand, the typical cod piece underwear today. Over the years the shape of cod pieces were adapted and constructed in accordance with the shape of the genital area.