It looks like Revival Clothing has interpreted the turned-back, white-fur-lined cuff with its pendant strip as a pinned-on accessory rather than the more accurate short-sleeve dress cuff with dangling tail. I know in this case you used that image to show what you meant, rather than as evidence, but it's hard enough to figure out what's going on when you look at a 14th century artist's interpretation of what a person wore, let alone a modern interpretation of that interpretation. There -are- examples of tippets in other colors, and some are sure drawn or painted in a truly light and fluttery way that seems to imply delicate fabrics, but more often than not they're white and if you can look closely enough you can see the fur.
As for purpose,I suspect there's about as much purpose to tippets as there is to hip-hugger bell-bottom jeans-- to look fashionable. ; ) Astrida -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Zuzana Kraemerova Sent: Thu 3/15/2007 3:43 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] tippets Thanks to everyone for the advice! When thinking about tippets, I came to another interesting - at leas for me - question - did they have some particular purpose or were they just decoration? I mean now the white, narrow ones that look as a separate accessory (this doesn't mean that they are). Like those: http://www.revivalclothing.com/images/tippet_hero.jpg (sorry I couldn't find any extant picture). Zuzana --------------------------------- Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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