Zuzana asked: > > does someone know how the tippets used to be attached to the > >dress? By pins? Or were they sewn-on? > > http://vieuxchamps.com/persona/enlarged/wg/wpic7.php
Astrida replies: > Current scholarship is that they aren't a separate accessory at all-- > they're the vestigial long pointy sleeve (morphed over time into a > thin streamer) as seen hanging from a short-sleeved overdress. That's > why they're so often white (and so often with little black specks)-- > that's the ermine lining of the sleeve. Zuzana, Astrida may have given you all the information you need, but if you want to see the "current scholarship," you'll find it in a paper I wrote a few years ago: "The Tippet: Accessory after the Fact?" in Medieval Clothing and Textiles 1, ed. Robin Netherton and Gale Owen-Crocker (Boydell, 2005). If you have trouble getting your hands on this, contact me privately. --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
