Thus Alwin Schultz remarks (in his _Hoefische Leben zur Zeit der Minnesaenger_), that the women of the aristocratic classes, though not the men, were often naked in these baths except for a hat and a necklace.
It is sometimes stated that in the mediaeval religious plays Adam and Eve were absolutely naked.

Chambers doubts this, and thinks they wore flesh-colored tights, or were, as in a later play of this kind, "apparelled in white leather" (E.K.Chambers, _The Mediaeval Stage_, vol.i, p.

5).

It may be so, but the public exposure even of the sexual organs was permitted, and that in aristocratic houses, for John of Salisbury (in a passage quoted by Buckle, _Commonplace Book_, 541) protests against this custom.
The women of the feminist sixteenth century in France, as R.de Maulde la Claviere remarks (_Revue de l'Art_, Jan., 1898), had no scruple in recompensing their adorers by admitting them to their toilette, or even their bath.

Late in the century they became still less prudish, and many well-known ladies allowed themselves to be painted naked down to the waist, as we see in the portrait of "Gabrielle d'Estrees au Bain" at Chantilly.