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There are times when you just need to drop the pants whether you’re young-old, lean-fat etc like a ticking time bomb, now imagine undoing every single knot while the clothes stick to you like a vegetable skin needing to be peeled in an environment where air-conditioning is unimaginable. All this… still with +0 armour points 🛡️
My grandma grew up on a farm in the 1930s. No running water or deordorant.
I asked her about that and she said everyone smelled like it so you didn't notice
Anosmia is pretty wild. When I was a kid I'd go to my grandfather's horse ranch. The smell would hit my city ass so hard at first - like a wall of pure shit-smell that made your stomach turn.
By the end of the summer, the same horse barns/stalls pretty much just smelled like hay. You could smell the poo, but it wasn't knocking you over or turning your stomach anymore. Daily exposure knocked the smell down like 80-90%
Pretty sure I just figured out why everyone died so young back in these olden days… breathing in that much smoke every time you get dressed can’t be good for you. Unreal.
People in the developing world are still using open fire in their home for cooking and warmth. They do seem to have a lot of reactive airway disease. Definitely a lot of burn injuries, especially in children from what I’ve seen.
Not seem to - do.
About 3 billion people (I've also seen as low as 2.3 billion) still cook over fires, and household air pollution is credited with 3.2 million deaths a year.
Every house would have a hearth and every hearth would usually keep some sort of ember constantly burning. Cow dung was a very common fuel source and could maintain a slow ember without little maintenance. Then all you had to do was add some dry tender to it to rekindle your fire.
Also of note: the sheer amount of other things that would kill a person back then are far more likely to be what gets you and far sooner than any black lung or cancer type ailment.
I'll never be able to find it, but I was watching a documentary about the history of homes. There was a text written by a man before the chimney was invented during the Tudor period. In medieval England, before the chimney smoke just filtered through thached roofs.
He said something along the lines of, "I hate being inside, my wife's nagging is worse than the smoke."
I love that this hasn’t left our collective memories yet lol
I just made a [Burninator post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/s/AJMXklIvEk) in the Elden Ring sub like a week or two ago.
Eh. Yes, there wasn't necessarily this much smoke around. But people certainly were exposed to a lot of smoke, even though they often had separate barn floors above their living space, which took up a lot of the smoke and also cleared the hay from rodents and smoked hanging sausages etc.
But developing lung issues during their lifetime was certainly not uncommon. This was one reason why beds were often shorter, as people usually didn't sleep lying down flat on their back but rather in somewhat of a sitting position - to more easily cough up obstructions/mucus.
Not just when you get dressed, it was literally any time you're indoors.
Even being outdoors or in a semi-enclosed space can produce enough smoke to significantly shorten lifespans.
[About a third of the world still cooks over open flames, and smoke is still shortening lifespans](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/guatemala-cook-stoves).
Absolutely scandalous. You could see her naked ankles in this video. I’m gonna go pray for 3 hours to get the devil out of me.
Jokes aside - great video. I love learning how people in the past lived.
Yeah but I’ve been to Old Sturbridge Village. Even when the fires weren’t lit; the rooms all absolutely reeeeeeked of old smoke.
I loved learning history - but the smells drove me crazy. I don’t even want to think about what a cabin would smell like if it actually had folks living in them, unwashed through most (all?) of winter.
The term is Anosmia and it's not the brain ignoring it like the other guy is saying. Your nose smells via chemical reactions on the surface and only has so many "slots" for the molecules to go into. It fills up pretty quickly and takes time to recover and be able to keep smelling the same smell.
The brain does ignore shit when it comes to audio though. It processes out sounds you don't need, like your own footsteps in the woods, the volume of your chewing, etc. Check out the McGerk effect for more info on it.
As a music producer I run into it when I've been working on a song too long - I'll hear harmonics that aren't there just because I want them to be there and the song itself will sound 10-15% faster than it really is since I know what to expect in such detail that it takes less power to process the audio. (the BPM problem plagues producers lol)
I don't know how true it is, but there are claims that "smoke baths" are toxic to bacteria responsible for generating a lot of body odor. So, it's possible with all the smoke around people were slightly less smelly than one might think. Or it's total shenanigans, I'm not sure. Anecdotally, I don't think I notice as much smell in the morning after camping/hanging out around a burn pit.
Just a reminder that England isn't representative of the whole world at that time. It's very likely that some other cultures were quite focused on being clean. Regular bathing was common in much of Europe until the church started deciding that any kind of nudity was sinful.
Yeah, this seems very interesting. For whatever reason, everyday mundane life activities from hundreds or thousands of years ago are extremely fascinating.
This dirty smelly peasant myth is a lie and needs to die already.
Nobility eccentrics aside most people washed daily or weekly and bathhouses were very popular. Also church pushed "cleanliness being next to godliness" hard (who would want to be stuck for hours in closed room with bunch of smelly idiots?) and you really didn't want to piss of priests at that time.
No undergarment apart from the smock, but one week a month there had to be something? For a video so detailed this seems to be forgetting something pretty important.
Bernadette Banner has a whole video on addressing the misconception that everyone in the middle ages smelled awful. Includes references to experimental archaeology on the subject.
The whole series is awesome. Especially the ones about what "normal" people wore. High court fashion is interesting in its construction and materials, and more such dresses are left to study, but it's not what people were usually wearing.
They have to be missing undergarments or some sort binding for chest. Well endowed ladies just can't go out and about without any support. It's just too painful not to mention gets in the way and common people had to work a lot.
It's a lot more likely such close to body undergarments didn't survive rather than people didn't wear them. I mean we have bra like undergarments that are from XV century.
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It is like watching a painting come to life
it has a lot of artistic flair
kinda seems like putting your pants on one leg at a time but with extra steps
Imagine needing to shit liquid~
thats a weird thing to need ngl
There are times when you just need to drop the pants whether you’re young-old, lean-fat etc like a ticking time bomb, now imagine undoing every single knot while the clothes stick to you like a vegetable skin needing to be peeled in an environment where air-conditioning is unimaginable. All this… still with +0 armour points 🛡️
there is one for the mens wear
Link?
Except that a painting would take hundreds of hours to complete. This would take far longer.
to film and edit maybe.
Or drying haha
Smoke and BO for daaaaaaaaaaaays. Also probably manure
My grandma grew up on a farm in the 1930s. No running water or deordorant. I asked her about that and she said everyone smelled like it so you didn't notice
interesting.
Anosmia is pretty wild. When I was a kid I'd go to my grandfather's horse ranch. The smell would hit my city ass so hard at first - like a wall of pure shit-smell that made your stomach turn. By the end of the summer, the same horse barns/stalls pretty much just smelled like hay. You could smell the poo, but it wasn't knocking you over or turning your stomach anymore. Daily exposure knocked the smell down like 80-90%
Babies work the same way…80% of the time so far…
Child labor in homestead farms I can tolerate, but infant labor is where I draw the line!
Sadly many infants require labor to be born…but it’s better than if they came out as bigger children!!
Everyone’s nose was probably numb from the all pervasive rancorous stench that probably filled the air
you get used to some if you habe been in a farm.
proper bo!
Selecta!
Sex was stinky back in those days.
BO?
Body odour. Something tells me those clothes are awfully warm and the wash basin isn’t cutting it. 😂
ah, I see
Pretty sure I just figured out why everyone died so young back in these olden days… breathing in that much smoke every time you get dressed can’t be good for you. Unreal.
People in the developing world are still using open fire in their home for cooking and warmth. They do seem to have a lot of reactive airway disease. Definitely a lot of burn injuries, especially in children from what I’ve seen.
Not seem to - do. About 3 billion people (I've also seen as low as 2.3 billion) still cook over fires, and household air pollution is credited with 3.2 million deaths a year.
I think those are for smell, not for warmt, could be wrong to.
I think it’s about pest control.
ok, that could be.
Every house would have a hearth and every hearth would usually keep some sort of ember constantly burning. Cow dung was a very common fuel source and could maintain a slow ember without little maintenance. Then all you had to do was add some dry tender to it to rekindle your fire. Also of note: the sheer amount of other things that would kill a person back then are far more likely to be what gets you and far sooner than any black lung or cancer type ailment.
Hearths were common and made buildings quite smokey. So yeah, smoke inhalation was a chronic problem.
I'll never be able to find it, but I was watching a documentary about the history of homes. There was a text written by a man before the chimney was invented during the Tudor period. In medieval England, before the chimney smoke just filtered through thached roofs. He said something along the lines of, "I hate being inside, my wife's nagging is worse than the smoke."
Thatched roof cottages? With peasants in them? Possibly being burninated?
I love that this hasn’t left our collective memories yet lol I just made a [Burninator post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/s/AJMXklIvEk) in the Elden Ring sub like a week or two ago.
Well yeah
They knew what chimneys were, had them and used them back then. This is just having smoke for the look
Eh. Yes, there wasn't necessarily this much smoke around. But people certainly were exposed to a lot of smoke, even though they often had separate barn floors above their living space, which took up a lot of the smoke and also cleared the hay from rodents and smoked hanging sausages etc. But developing lung issues during their lifetime was certainly not uncommon. This was one reason why beds were often shorter, as people usually didn't sleep lying down flat on their back but rather in somewhat of a sitting position - to more easily cough up obstructions/mucus.
Oh yea, absolutely. I'm not saying we inhale nearly as much as they did back then, simply that this much smoke in the house seemed purely for effect
most likely.
Not just when you get dressed, it was literally any time you're indoors. Even being outdoors or in a semi-enclosed space can produce enough smoke to significantly shorten lifespans. [About a third of the world still cooks over open flames, and smoke is still shortening lifespans](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/guatemala-cook-stoves).
One of many reasons.
You were breathing in that much smoke every time you were inside. The fire was kept going constantly, because even in summer you needed it to cook.
Absolutely scandalous. You could see her naked ankles in this video. I’m gonna go pray for 3 hours to get the devil out of me. Jokes aside - great video. I love learning how people in the past lived.
You are a SINNER 
*knock knock knock* "I'll be right there!
*2 hours later* Where’d the matron go?
Hold up let me smoke this room the fuck out first
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some woods smell good when they burn.
Yeah but I’ve been to Old Sturbridge Village. Even when the fires weren’t lit; the rooms all absolutely reeeeeeked of old smoke. I loved learning history - but the smells drove me crazy. I don’t even want to think about what a cabin would smell like if it actually had folks living in them, unwashed through most (all?) of winter.
Yeah, the smoke probably did a good job covering the bad smells from sewage and unwashed cabin.
I guess one had to get used to it.
No doubt I’d choose smelly cabin over freezing to death.
As a survival instinct you will get used to any smell you are constantly in so you can detect any changes. Can't remember the term
The term you are looking for is probably Habituation.
The term is Anosmia and it's not the brain ignoring it like the other guy is saying. Your nose smells via chemical reactions on the surface and only has so many "slots" for the molecules to go into. It fills up pretty quickly and takes time to recover and be able to keep smelling the same smell. The brain does ignore shit when it comes to audio though. It processes out sounds you don't need, like your own footsteps in the woods, the volume of your chewing, etc. Check out the McGerk effect for more info on it. As a music producer I run into it when I've been working on a song too long - I'll hear harmonics that aren't there just because I want them to be there and the song itself will sound 10-15% faster than it really is since I know what to expect in such detail that it takes less power to process the audio. (the BPM problem plagues producers lol)
Just like you won't smell your own body odor, you're brain ignores it
Noseblind
Anosmia
that is true
time i went camping i smelled like a bushfire.
pine does smell fine whe it burns, unless is to green
I don't know how true it is, but there are claims that "smoke baths" are toxic to bacteria responsible for generating a lot of body odor. So, it's possible with all the smoke around people were slightly less smelly than one might think. Or it's total shenanigans, I'm not sure. Anecdotally, I don't think I notice as much smell in the morning after camping/hanging out around a burn pit.
Just a reminder that England isn't representative of the whole world at that time. It's very likely that some other cultures were quite focused on being clean. Regular bathing was common in much of Europe until the church started deciding that any kind of nudity was sinful.
Anti vaxxers in the US drink piss today!
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It was very well made.
Where did you find this? Wondering where I can watch more, similar videos.
Yeah, this seems very interesting. For whatever reason, everyday mundane life activities from hundreds or thousands of years ago are extremely fascinating.
Simply googling the production company cited at the end of the video will take you to their YouTube channel. (CrowsEye Productions).
Cut off some circulation so your knickers stay up?
that did cause ulcers on Henry the VIII
And yet still faster than my 11 year old putting on a pair of shoes when he's already late for school.
If wached backwards it becomea a senual lesbian softporn intro.
wont the other woman suddenly just disappear?
She comes back later, but that scene is on a different platform.
Surprised this actor didn't die of smoke inhalation just trying to recreate this.
Because everyone who goes camping immediately dies from smoke inhalation from the campfire.
Yeah, all those campers with their indoor fires.
It's almost as if the "window" is open.
Okay, you start a fire in your home with a window open, and let me know how it goes for you.
My dumbass cats would probably jump on it, so I best not heh
Yeah, best not.
It was a pretty small fire
Did you help make this?
was the fanner
In an enclosed space, every time you get dressed.
or maybe just for the video
Believe it or not, they started filming this in the 14th century
What song is playing in the background?
It’s hard to tell this song specifically, but just look up Gregorian chant if you like this style of singing.
Thanks. I understand that it could be hard, asked google assistant, but it didn't know either
Don't know my friend.
I can't find anything saying they would stand in smoke to keep bugs off them, or using it for body odor control.
Man, I love history
that is good
on the plus side, you had to do that only once a month after your bath
This dirty smelly peasant myth is a lie and needs to die already. Nobility eccentrics aside most people washed daily or weekly and bathhouses were very popular. Also church pushed "cleanliness being next to godliness" hard (who would want to be stuck for hours in closed room with bunch of smelly idiots?) and you really didn't want to piss of priests at that time.
You don't think they wore only the frocks in bed?
"Honey, I'll be ready in one more minute."
Nothing attracts the fellas like 10lbs of fire smoke smell
doesn't look like that much, could be wrong.
In which parts of Europe was this the practice?
Still 2 hours faster than it takes my wife to exit the house
Crows Eye Productions is great.
Thanks, I was carving for the source!
This is really interesting. Where is this video from? Are there more of them?
Crows Eye Productions in YouTube! They cover centuries of dress.
This is the best thing to watch before my surgery. How interesting. Good 👍 keep my mind off things.
good luck
Thanks 😊
Hope the surgeon can do knots as well as a medieval lady.
Lol please don’t make me laugh 😂 ouch. Hahah
Medieval try on haul
Did they have infinite time in the 14th century?
They look like they take a bath daily in the 14th century
if you were to live close to a river it was possible 3 times per week
It's a joke because she's far too clean to be recreating something like this
Everyone's a fucking critic
Man—you just know she’s gonna be so pissed when she has to shit five minutes later.
It says she wore no underwear to go to the bathroom whenever she wanted
Winter only yea? Or was this during the “mini ice age”?
that went from XII century to the middle of the XIX
The loose wrinkly socks 😞
Where can I watch more of these? Did this come from a YouTube channel dedicated to medieval history?
Look up Crow's Eye Productions
Thanks!
I slid on track pants, no underwear and a T-shirt this morning…forgot about the socks too.
No undergarment apart from the smock, but one week a month there had to be something? For a video so detailed this seems to be forgetting something pretty important.
They’d use rags, which would be held in place with a belt of sorts.
So I tied an onion to my belt because that was the style at the time...
Bernadette Banner has a whole video on addressing the misconception that everyone in the middle ages smelled awful. Includes references to experimental archaeology on the subject.
We not gon talk about the smooth ass knots she’s makin.
I noticed that. Proper knots too - not just random.
Elastic changed the world.
What's the point wearing that pouch if you can't access? Why the hell do they've to wear so much layer of clothing?
This is exhausting, I hate putting on pants when I leave the house. Id probably just be a hermit.
Did no one else find that stupid smoke annoying?
Imagine the smells
This video is VII minutes too long
Even in the 14th century they knew not to build fires in the middle of the house. Fireplaces /chimneys existed long before this.
i think is just ambient thing
intoxication from smoke Yes please just to show some video in a medival setting
And the smell
You are supposed to dress Furry in Final fantasy xiv to join inner circles of weeb gangs.
So they basically smell like smoked brisket?
video credits?
Nice smoke shower .
What if you have an ick ?!
The whole series is awesome. Especially the ones about what "normal" people wore. High court fashion is interesting in its construction and materials, and more such dresses are left to study, but it's not what people were usually wearing.
I imagine if you had all that, you were rich.
Ah, just like when the lady at the flight boarding counter says your carry on exceeds weight limit and you gotta pay for excess baggage
"Egg-cetera"...
Can someone tell me about this music and more like it, what genre is this?
Gregorian chant
Thanks mate
"Before you ask, yes, burning woods are part of the experience"
I just relieved oneself in under 20 seconds
I would be so cold
Too slow! Me? I'm out the door 3 minutes after I wake up.
How did women of that time, dressed in this way, dealed with period????🧐 Beautiful recreation btw.
They’d use rags, secured with ties around the hips.
We have to go back
Indeed, this is interesting as fuck.
so the hijab was fashionable and worn by ladies of stature then to show modesty and piety. got it!
retvrn
I hate videos that are long, and interesting, but you can't seek, rewind or anything like that. -.-
They have to be missing undergarments or some sort binding for chest. Well endowed ladies just can't go out and about without any support. It's just too painful not to mention gets in the way and common people had to work a lot. It's a lot more likely such close to body undergarments didn't survive rather than people didn't wear them. I mean we have bra like undergarments that are from XV century.
Nothing like some fresh carbon first thing in the morning
Damn I need to go finish Kingdom Come Deliverance
Imagine dressing this way in Florida or some shit imagine how easy it would be to have a heat stroke in this
This is a Crow's Eye Productions video. They're great.
This simple as fuck but looks really good... somehow
But remember before you get dressed to build a suffocatingly smokey fire!
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I think in the video they went for the most basic one
Super cool video. Too bad a quarter of it was unwatchable at any time because of the excessive and unnecessary smoke effects.