Heather Rose Jones will probably chime in on this one if she sees it -- she gave a presentation on exactly this issue at Kalamazoo a couple of years ago (and has just submitted a paper version for a future _Medieval Clothing and Textiles_).
Basically, what I think she winds up saying is that virtually all the pictorial examples of women wearing braies in medieval Western Europe turn out to fit into one of two themes: (1) mythical women such as the Amazon warrior queen Penthisilea; or (2) "who wears the pants in the family" arguments between women and men. Neither one of these seems intended as a realistic picture of what women actually wore. (Heather, did I summarize this correctly?) ____________________________________________________________ 0 Chris Laning | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + Davis, California http://paternoster-row.org - http://paternosters.blogspot.com ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
