On Jul 23, 2011, at 6:36 PM, "Susan B. Farmer" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Second -- what I'm looking for is what was Medieval/Renaissance Dress. Our > dean keeps saying that Academic Dress (tm) is unchanged since the 14th > Century -- I want to know what 14th C Academic Dress looks like! > When I get home I'll give you the reference for what I found when I had a similar question. The short version of my own conclusions was "the styles are clearly related, but if you showed up at a modern college graduation wearing a 14th c cap and gown, it would be instantly identified as odd. " Heather Rose Jones _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
