Diagonal stripes on a King. Horizontal on a musician http://tinyurl.com/y5qynw
Various ranks http://tinyurl.com/y8avx6 A lord http://tinyurl.com/y3fqet Young man http://tinyurl.com/yy3cng Master http://tinyurl.com/wzam6 Armourer and apron? http://www.tempora-nostra.de/tempora-nostra/manesse.php?id=203&tfl=124 Various stripes, master and musicians http://www.tempora-nostra.de/tempora-nostra/manesse.php?id=203&tfl=130 woodsman? http://www.tempora-nostra.de/tempora-nostra/manesse.php?id=203&tfl=127 I know there are later period on women's striped garments but I do not have time right now to search for them. De -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Cat Dancer Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 8:57 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: striped skirt I've just come off teaching a class on social distinctions in dress 1100-1500, and at least in the visual corpus, stripes are usually only seen on musicians or servants or people who are in some way social inferiors. There's at least one sumptuary law requiring prostitutes to wear rayed (striped) cloth*, for instance. [1351 London. Also 1351, in Castile, female 'companions' of the clergy required to wear striped cloth. That's all I've got in my sumptuary research about stripes.] In the Sachenspiegel (I know I probably butchered that spelling), a German law text of around the 13th century, parti-colour and stripes are used to denote the layers of feudalism. The top guy is in green or red, then his vassal is in parti-colour solids, then the vassal's vassal is in parti-colour one solid and one wide horizontal stripes, and lower than that is parti-colour with narrow stripes. [There's another class here somewhere about the perils of costume research using visual sources, that's next on the list.] I suspect that the woman in stripes in the third URL that De posted is Mary Magdalen, which would go along with the theory of using stripes to denote prostitutes. So we might be running up against an artistic convention regarding the use of stripes vs. actual use of stripes in everyday clothing. Pixel _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
