I tried to tell them something akin to that...the response I got was either to ignore me (I'm use to that) or to come up with the "but maybe they did it because they didn't love their husbands. After all, a lot of marriages were arranged right? So to have an open partlet meant you were looking for love?" Of course, I think this is the same person, when told that stripes weren't popular in the 16th c, she wanted to know why they put trim on the doublets to look like trim then....::head desk::