On May 27, 2009, at 5:14 PM, Sagittarius Uisce Beatha wrote:
I'm going by what it looks like to me.
http://elizabethangeek.com/costumereview/images/13.jpg in that
picture the
back shape looks like the QEI picture except this one covers the ears.
According to the site that you just linked me to, it says later period
french hoods are more often referred to as billiments because the hood
itself had gotten so small.
http://elizabethangeek.com/costumereview/images/48.jpg This one
doesn't
cover the ears and you can see the crescent nicely. It's pictures
like
that, that make me say french hood.
These are both definitely French hoods. The white crescent with gold
on either side and black behind (the black is the hood) are a dead
giveaway.
Melanie Schuessler
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