[Isabel C.]

No panties, huh? Well, that settles it, if we ever develop time travel, I’m jumping back to the “First Bra Age”

I hope you realize that people bathed very infrequently back then and feminine hygiene was crude at best

[arderkrag]

I’ll take a fire truck with me and hose everything down. Failing that, a thousand pressure washers should take care of the problem. Maybe I’l change the course of history with - GASP - shampoo.

[Dr. Sivana]

I hope you realize that people bathed very infrequently back then

I hope you realize that that is a myth.

http://www.gallowglass.org/jadwiga/herbs/baths.html

Like the nonsensical idea that spices were used to disguise the taste of rotten meat, the idea that bathing was forbidden and/or wiped out between the fall of Rome and the Enlightenment has been touted by many gullible writers, including Smithsonian magazine.

However, even the Smithsonian in the person of Jay Stuller has to admit that "Gregory the Great, the first monk to become pope, allowed Sunday baths and even commended them, so long as they didn't become a 'time-wasting luxury' . . . medieval nobility routinely washed their hands before and after meals. Etiquette guides of the age insisted that teeth, face and hands be cleaned each morning.

Shallow basins and water jugs for washing hair were found in most manor houses, as was the occasional communal tub..."

"In the first volume of Janssen's History of the German People there are many details concerning the popular use of baths in Germany during the Middle Ages.

Men bathed several times each day; some spent the whole day in or about their favorite springs. From the 20th of May to the 9th of June, 1511, Lucas Rem bathed one hundred and twenty-seven times, as we may see by his diary" (p. 291-292).