Thanks, Robin... What about Stella Mary Newton's reference to the captive French king in 1360, (p. 58):
"The clothes consisted of a suit of three garments: cote, surcote, housee and hood, with two pairs of sleeves for the cote, all in violet cloth in grain; a dressing gown-- mantel a lever de nuit-- with a hood and two neck-pieces (ammucas); six pairs of hose in two colors in grain, a cote hardi, mantle, 'simple' cote (not padded or lined), a hood and two pairs of sleeves in blue cloth left over from the suit he had made at All Saints in the previous year." She says all this is listed in the "Journal de la depense du roi Jean" and I'd LOVE to take a look at the original source....not that my medieval French is that great! ; ) But anyway, these don't sound particularly special or embellished, though again, not seeing the original source I may simply not have enough info. Astrida
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