[MUD-Dev] Unique items

[JC Lawrence]

On Fri, 9 Jan 1998 15:51:51 PST8PDT 
Richard Woolcock<KaVir at dial.pipex.com> wrote:

> [look woman 

> She looks absolutely beautiful, with soft brown eyes and long, curly
> black hair which reaches down to her waist.  She is wearing a torn
> pair of tight-fitting black jeans, fastened at the waist with a
> brown leather belt.  A shredded and blood stained white shirt barely
> covers her body, and beneath it you can make out a ripped black silk
> bra and several painful-looking wounds, one of which is still
> leaking blood.  In one hand she holds a slightly-notched steel
> knife, while in the other is a lit silver lantern.

If you are going for a medieval them I'd note that brassieres are a
very recent (french) invention (the bloddy idiots).  The entire
concept of undergarments is actually a very modern thing.  Your
budding busty wenches and the like back then were actually nekkid
under their outer dresses, as were your serfs under their own outer
garments.  

  I won't comment on how flat out itchy rough wool trousers really were,
especially when worn under armour.

Halters of various forms to bind (never contain) breasts, were used
long previously to bras.  They were just flat binding strips, somewhat
egyptian mummy-style, and were general purpose outer garments mostly
used to get the damned flappy things out of the way.

Remember: nudity was not thought much of a few hundred hears ago.  It
was a sign of wealth and success that one could __afford__ to dress in
clothes in many cases.  What remained of clothing otherwise was
strictly functional: either for warmth or protection.  

Of course your players might respond a little differently if they
suddenly find that that everyone is both anatomoically correct and
naked.  Times have changed.

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