What about the occasional stripes showing up in the Manesse Codex? There's also that picture of Beatrice Sforza, and it's clearly striped (black and white, IIRC). Okay, so she's Italian, but she wasn't Venetian. --Sue
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 3:44 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: striped skirt > > >>>>Are stripes ever found anywhere outside of Italy?<<<< > > > I'm not really the right person to answer that - I'm too focused on Venice and the rest of Italy to take much else in. :-) But I will say that I _cannot remember_ having seen stripes on any non-religious or non-allegorical person in any other SCA region/time frame. That's not saying much though, because my memory doesn't always co-operate. :-) _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
