18th century chamber pots ( Le Bourdaloue) Women of the 18th century didn’t wear knickers, they hadn’t been invented which may have been something of a blessing when you find out that hanging around at court for hours necessitated the need for women to relieve themselves where they stood. Today, when needs must we have a modern equivalent, the ‘she-wee’, and of course, those Georgians were no different. Just prior to the Georgian era they did had the chamber pot, but that was not very practical