Hyaline Prosaic : The Lovely Ordinary

About a week ago I saw this article floating around the interwebs: The Disturbing Reason Women's Clothing Historically Never Had Pockets.
I admit, my first thought was "What an amusing bit of baseless, invented historical poppycock" wrote a "sigh, this is silly" Facebook post, had a nice chat and laugh with my history nerd friends, and moved on....

The Modern Reenactor recently posted a fantastic article on one of our most fundamental choices as reenactors--evidence or preference? Read it.  Digest it.  It's a tough question to answer for many of us, but it's a valid one to force ourselves to engage...

Note: Throughout this post, I am speaking about and to those whose goal is historical accuracy.  If that's not you, no guilt, no judgment.  Not your goal, not your problem!
There's a weird myth I've noticed floating out there recently.
It's that historical authenticity isn't for beginners....

I started noticing a weird clothing item while collecting images of women working.
It's kinda like a stomacher.
Except it's not one of the gorgeous, embroidered, gilt, bow-bedecked stomachers we usually see displayed in museum collections and photographed for books....