Tudor Fashion: Pretty but did not think best about the smell

  A new exhibition at the Queen's Gallery in London is in fine style called: The Art of the Tudor and Stuart fashion. Tudors and Stuarts, but also Italians, Spaniards and Germans - He has portraits in the 16th and 17 Century painted.

When Brian Sewell writes for the London Evening Standard, while the garment is mind-bogglingly above and flowers - thick, rich fabrics, skirted dresses, lace collar, intricate embroidery - it is important to remember that hygiene was different, and this people probably felt really, really bad:

It was certainly not as good as clothes, make the man (or woman or child), at least have told us clearly and his status in court circles and the Tudors earlier Stuarts were not only ruinously expensive, but to put the time and to remove, hard, heavy, hot, never comfortable, never really clean and probably never of the accumulated body odors and perfumes to disguise them free. Model with decorative stitching, heavy embroidery, jewelry and trinkets, was tracksuits upon layer upon layer corsets, travel, blouses and other garments, some exaggeration natural shape of the body, other camouflage. For decades, women have found it virtually impossible to sit, and men and boys have a great panties to enhance the buttocks - in the early 17th Century with "many bumbastings padded and upholstered ... seem full thighed we are" - made Men's ridiculous, and God knows how, without slip (they returned the shirt tail between their legs) they kept the inevitable growth of fungi in the step under such circumstances tirelessly wet. It is not surprising that, when Charles II was restored in 1660, the court was less formal and it was possible to take off without deliberate be seen in the comfort.

Gross. Think they are going to tackle the step in the new red CW show on Mary, Queen of Scots?