Hello, everyone. Robin caught something yesterday, and followed up on her idea, and sent it on to me, and I did some following-up of my own, and it appears that I may have been leading y'all astray. Although I did not remember Sir John's effigy as being armored (and this is unclear from my photograph), I did find a better shot of the effigy online by googling for his name, and wading past all the stuff that was about his more-famous son, also known as Sir John. http://www.ukgraves.info/review.asp?id=24&pic=10 As you can see, he's clearly armored. I do not know enough about 14th century armor so say with any degree of certainty that what he's got on could just be some sort of partial set of armor, such as one sometimes sees in 16th century portraits, or if he's wearing some sort of coat or jupon over armor. At best, my photo is an example of *something* (most likely body armor) being laced on the side. It is very likely *not* an example of side-laced clothing. (On the plus side, Sir John, jr. appears to have been a very interesting fellow, and the ukgraves site has got all kinds of interesting images, so this wasn't a total loss!) --Sue, going off feeling like a right eejit! :o)
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