Cynthia Virtue wrote:
Are you treating the transparent kerchiefs at the neck of the circa-1400 era as something not-a-partlet-ancestor?
They're not relevant in this case. My concern is actually collars in the late 14th c. (actually I'm analyzing a particular narrative passage that mentions a collar, so I'm talking about what the collar might have looked like). In discussing possibilities, I mention partlets as collars made as separate garments, as opposed to the types of collars that are attached to, or part of, a garment. It's not the main point of my paper, but I need to be able to acknowledge that such a thing does show up at some point past the period I'm focusing on.
The scarves that go over the shoulders might well be ancestors to the partlet, but they don't have collars, so mercifully I don't have to talk about them. If I were focusing on partlet development, I would.
All this just so I can say the equivalent of "and a while later you see this thing called a partlet ..." But vagueness is so unprofessional.
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