Which period of time did women start wearing panties?

Question

Please give me the decade.
if you don't know the decade, give me the part of the century.

Answer 1

I think women always wore something under there clothes. but the type of panty we wear today was probably invented in the late 1800's.

Answer 2

Panties are female undergarments. The term spread through American culture in the 1950s after women's underwear became flashier and more colorful than traditional white cotton hygiene undergarments. Many people would agree there is a large cultural difference between typical underwear and panties, since the latter tends to carry different, more feminine influences.

Before recent times, women's underwear were made with the primary function of body contortion. In the 1940s, Fredericks of Hollywood opened shop in Hollywood and began selling corsets and lingerie with a much more fashionable appeal to them. These new styles of women's undergarments possessed a greater sexual feel, made even more glamorized by models such as Bettie Page.

Colorful, bright and flashier fashions of women's lingerie were becoming available. More fabrics such as satin, lace and silk began to be incorporated into the makeup of women's lingerie, making them more desired by females and more sensual to males. This is perhaps the great turning point when panties became more then simple hygiene products and developed into an icon of sexuality worldwide.

Since then, women in flattering lingerie have become a staple of several functions of men's popular culture. Several men's magazines such as Maxim and Lowrider often use images of attractive females in sensual lingerie to capture mainstream appeal.

Answer 3

A longggggggggggg longggg time ago, like ancient times:

http://barclay.e-city.tv/eroshist/panty_en.html
scroll down a bit :] lots of information!

Answer 4

early 20th century