It consists of a long, gathered flannel skirt called a petticoat, a long (or short) skirted jacket with a fitted bodice called a ‘betgwn’ (bedgown), a full-length apron, a shawl or scarf ...

When Mary Isabella, Duchess of Rutland, sat for Reynolds in the late 1770s, she recorded her frustration at being required to try on 11 different outfits, before he finally settled on what she ...

Ensembles consisted of a striped flannel petticoat, worn under a flannel open-fronted bedgown, with an apron, shawl and kerchief or cap. It was identified as being different from that worn by the ...

and “What do women want?” and “Where would you get pink fur in 1600 - and what kind of boy is it who gets pink fur on his bedgown anyhow?” were the questions being asked by Professor ...

Journalists can't be in all places at all times, and sometimes have to rely on the odd team press release for comments from the day's protagonists. The headline used for the third stage from Saxo ...