On Feb 16, 2006, at 7:32 PM, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
On Thursday 16 February 2006 3:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I hope someone can assist me. One of the members of my
"household"
wants to take a look at what a 10th to the 11th C. German man
would have
worn. I tried to look through the net - but must not of worded
my search
correctly because I could not find anything.
Try the page I have given the URL for below. There's a sumptious
color
picture of a royal dalmatic (i.e., a tunic) in the Kunsthistorische
Museum,
Vienna from about 1130 C.E. (it's about a third of the way down
the page).
An ordinary German man would not have worn anything of silk, or
with such
sumptuous embroidery, but the cut likely would have been similar.
There's a black-and-white photo of an earlier German tunic on the
same page,
but there's a problem with the neckline as it's shown there--you'll
see what
I mean if you look at it.
There isn't so much a "problem" with the neckline as that it's a
rather unusually shaped neckline. The particular angle of the
photograph is also not very good for seeing what's going on with the
neck. Asymmetric "side-opening" necklines are quite common among the
surviving garments of this era (what few there are).
Heather
--
Heather Rose Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.heatherrosejones.com
LJ:hrj
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