These images, primarily from the Wenceslaus Bible of the late 14th
century, were reproduced in
Die Mode der Gotischen Frau by Olga
Sronkova.
They supposedly depict members of the Guild of Bathhouse-Keepers in
Bohemia, who may or may not have been ladies of easy virtue.
Their distinctive dress appears to consist of a spaghetti strapped
or strapless, semi-fitted underdress, between knee- and ankle-length, worn
with some sort of long flowing sash, possibly a towel. They carry badges
of office in the form of a sponge/washing tool on a stick and a wooden
bucket.
Two illustrations showing women in childbed also appear to show them
wearing the same type of spaghetti-strap dress, suggesting that perhaps
the bathhouse-keepers are actually simply stripped down to their skivvies
for work in a wet environment, rather than wearing purpose-built clothing.
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Comment: If you look carefully, it's pretty clear that the thing in
his lap really is a backscrubber like all the other backscrubbers in the
pictures.
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Nonetheless, the outfits do seem to have become see-thru when wet:
Pictures of ladies in childbed:
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