Ooo, a whole book about it! Thanks!
Pixel, is there any way of knowing if the sumptuary laws meant woven-in stripes, applied stripes or pieced stripes? That painting with Mary Magdalen looked like they might be applied. Thanks to everyone who responded! I love this kind of conversation with you guys! Tea Rose Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 19:12:03 -0500 From: Lauren Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: striped skirt Here's a book about the theory: http://www.amazon.com/Devils-Cloth-History-Stripes/dp/0743472578/ sr=1-9/qid=1165363714/ref=sr_1_9/002-1662157-1188053?ie=UTF8&s=books _The Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes_ by Michel Pastoreau, translated by Jody Gladding Have fun. Lauren --------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 20:56:37 -0600 (CST) From: Cat Dancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: striped skirt I've just come off teaching a class on social distinctions in dress 1100-1500, and at least in the visual corpus, stripes are usually only seen on musicians or servants or people who are in some way social inferiors. There's at least one sumptuary law requiring prostitutes to wear rayed (striped) cloth*, for instance. [1351 London. Also 1351, in Castile, female 'companions' of the clergy required to wear striped cloth. That's all I've got in my sumptuary research about stripes.] Pixel ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
