Viking Bras Provided Shape, Support... and Too Much Gawking
Tuesday March 4, 2008
A recent news article out of Scotland's Daily Record describes how early Viking women wore "lift and support" type bras -- not only that, they showed off fashionable new designs in fireside shows.
Annika Larsson, a Swedish archeologist, has been excavating at Birka. She says that new finds indicate that Viking women wore a garment made of cloth with fasteners and round metal pieces to provide support to the breasts for women doing heavy lifting. When Christian settlers moved into the area, they banned the bras, saying that the garments made womens' bodies too noticable -- in other words, pointy metal bras were just too sexy!
I think this is a neat discovery. I'm hoping maybe the Xena: Warrior Princess look will come back, because let's face it, some of us would look spectacular in Viking bras. Victoria's Secret, take note!
Annika Larsson, a Swedish archeologist, has been excavating at Birka. She says that new finds indicate that Viking women wore a garment made of cloth with fasteners and round metal pieces to provide support to the breasts for women doing heavy lifting. When Christian settlers moved into the area, they banned the bras, saying that the garments made womens' bodies too noticable -- in other words, pointy metal bras were just too sexy!
I think this is a neat discovery. I'm hoping maybe the Xena: Warrior Princess look will come back, because let's face it, some of us would look spectacular in Viking bras. Victoria's Secret, take note!
Kool!!
I wish I had Xena’s body just so I could wear such cool bras’.
With a bra like that, EVERYONE can have a body like Xena’s
patti
Can’t forget the leather. Have to have the leather.
That is so awesome that viking women had such style! Its too bad that christians are always trying to bring us down. Live and let live!
Just a comment from someone involved in the study of Viking Era clothing…
I wouldn’t trust that her interpretation is valid…it’s much different from the what the people who actually did the dig interpreted…