anybody ever heard this?

I bought the book The Needlework of Mary Queen of Scots  by Margaret Swain yesterday at the Drama bookshop because it was half off when buying my POF4. I was reading it on the bus back to philadelphia and I came across two passages that struck me as very interesting. But the biboliography in the book is rather lacking and I was hoping to independantly verify. Here are the two passages:

"From the accounts of merchants who supplied her in 1551 it is possible to glimpse the splendor of her wardrobe...The accounts also reveal, for instance, that the young Queen wore drawers, sometimes of fine wool, sometimes of cambric- garments that were not common in England at that time"


"Her Hosier supplied hose (chauses) in a variet of colors, made of material, not knitted. But the word chauses also could mean breeches, and Mary appears to have adopted the even more daring and progressive fashion of wearing breeches of Florentine serge, made by her tailor, and worn beneath her skirts for riding. The fashion is said to have been introduced from Italy by Catherine de Medici, who was herself an accomplished rider, and in her youth had been one of the petite bande of court ladies who hunted with Francis I, her father-in-law"


Anyone else every heard anywhere that Mary wore drawers and breeches? Raised red flags in my head, but if it was actually in those wardrobe accounts that would be very interesting to know.  

anybody ever heard this?

I bought the book The Needlework of Mary Queen of Scots  by Margaret Swain yesterday at the Drama bookshop because it was half off when buying my POF4. I was reading it on the bus back to philadelphia and I came across two passages that struck me as very interesting. But the biboliography in the book is rather lacking and I was hoping to independantly verify. Here are the two passages:

"From the accounts of merchants who supplied her in 1551 it is possible to glimpse the splendor of her wardrobe...The accounts also reveal, for instance, that the young Queen wore drawers, sometimes of fine wool, sometimes of cambric- garments that were not common in England at that time"


"Her Hosier supplied hose (chauses) in a variet of colors, made of material, not knitted. But the word chauses also could mean breeches, and Mary appears to have adopted the even more daring and progressive fashion of wearing breeches of Florentine serge, made by her tailor, and worn beneath her skirts for riding. The fashion is said to have been introduced from Italy by Catherine de Medici, who was herself an accomplished rider, and in her youth had been one of the petite bande of court ladies who hunted with Francis I, her father-in-law"


Anyone else every heard anywhere that Mary wore drawers and breeches? Raised red flags in my head, but if it was actually in those wardrobe accounts that would be very interesting to know.