Who takes a bath in a nightgown?

Are we really so puritanical these days that even a woman's bare shoulders in a bathtub can't be viewed?

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House. My room. Cant walk. My medal. My father. Father, dont!

I disagree because she said "Tonight I am yours." Honestly I'm surprised that she is willing to be with him sexually but not in any meaningful way.... I felt her reasoning was weak -- Cathrine already knows she's dear to his heart regardless of whether or not they become an item or are wed.

It's periodically accurate. It was unknown who would walk in on you and in that day and age they were highly puritanical. A wrist or ankle flashing was about as scandalous as hiking up your skirts and showing your genitals. It was very common for women of money (and those with none) to bathe in their shifts or nightgowns. First, you have no idea who might walk in. Two, it was for modesty, not only for the woman in question but for her ladies. Three, it was considered ungodly to go about in the buff. Think of it as Jews wearing headcoverings in church, same for women who wear hijab. It was modesty. It had sh*t to do with the show. This thing is a steaming pile of crap that pretty much goes and buys modern clothes off a rack, tosses a bit of stuff willy nilly on it and calls it "period". I find it laughable that they chose to make THIS accurate.

Like you said, he's seen the goods before! It was super weird to hold some pretense of modesty when the nightgown was probably see-through anyhow, and he knows what you look like naked. So weird.

Like you said, he's seen the goods before!

People didn't actually bathe in that period, because it was thought that bathing would open one's pores and let "bad air" into the body. It was medicinally advised to only wash the parts of the body visible in public. The switch from primarily woolen clothing to washable linen clothing meant that the wealthy changed their clothes a lot and had them washed, rather than bathing.

Reign has never been historically accurate before, so it made me laugh that they'd choose THAT to highlight this time.

Thank god someone said it- i was about to answer with - 16th century royals- that's who- lol completely commonplace. Marie Antoinette did it etc etc and any other royals who bothered to fully immerse themselves in water - well except Diane de Poitier in real life she was a water goddess and regularly submerged herself int he river naked despite the beliefs back then that it was dangerous (lol). Honestly Diane and Henri's love story was the interesting one- wish they had made that into a show. Their story is flat incredible but the show ignored pretty much everything we know about her- right down to the fact that she never really left behind her widows weeds. She was a master at knowing what suited her and black and white became her signature- so much so that Henri adopted them as his own colors. He used to sign things HenriDiane and she was able to sign important state papers. Their entwined initials decorated every building and Henri was in her thrall from the time he was 15 till his death despite her being ....about 20 years his senior- so she was 50 and still had him on his knees. When Catherine de Medici didn't conceive for so many years it was Diane that would get Henri all hot and bothered then deny him and send him to Catherine when the time of the month was right (or so the story goes). When Henri died Catherine was regent and destroyed every memory of her- didn't allow her to see him at his death bed though he wept for her and took the beautiful chateau Chenanceau (oh I'm not looking up the spelling sorry). Still Diane was such a prudent business woman that she had herself well placed and was able to live out her days peacefully at her family home which was a beauty of black and white. Anyhow they didn't do her character any favors- I have always disliked Catherine but she is much more likable here than in the books I have read.

XD I am glad I'm not the only one who noticed. This show is terrible. Not only because it's one gigantic joke, but the costumes are worse (well at least for the women. They totally manage to get the mens costumes almost correct and then it's like "Let's dress you up like a 2016 tart and call you period!" I turned it off the moment the chick started pleasuring herself in the hall watching people have sex. I was just like "Nope."

There was very little of what we would think of as 'privacy' in those days. The poor lived in small huts, and the rich, in their big houses and palaces? Servants, attendants and courtiers, everywhere. It was a sign of how rich and powerful you were. Most shows don't show the sea of maids and cleaners and men moving stuff around, that would fill those big buildings.

Look at Downton Abbey - a cook, a kitchen maid, couple of ladies maids, a couple of footmen and a butler? That's nothing, not for a big house like that. No mention of the housemaids required to clean the place, the laundresses to wash the fancy clothes and all the bedding and linen. The 'family' would be outnumbered by the staff by several to one.

Even when taking a bath, how did the hot water get there, and who added more at intervals? Yep, a stream of attendants with buckets. Adding water, testing the warmth, 'Want another towel?' 'Hair rinsed?' 'Love letter delivered to the boyfriend?' If you're being paid to serve, it pays to be visibly useful.