At 18:20 31/07/2008, you wrote:
Some good 15th century stuff here.
http://www.historiclife.com/pdf/KASF2008/15thCenturyArcher.pdf
The hosen start on page 15.
Very interesting site - thanks for posting.
Suzi
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Heather Rose Jones <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Jul 30, 2008, at 2:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
>> I'm not aware of any real research into hosen and linings from earlier
>> than
>> the 16th century.
>>
>> I'm not aware of any extant hosen (other than the buskins in Canturbury
>> Cathedral, obviusly, but they're 12th century (offhand)).
>>
>
> <snip>
>
>
>> All this is assuming that you mean joined hose of course.
>>
>
> In terms of joined hose, I've only cataloged one pair earlier than the 16th
> century -- I don't have my full notes in front of me at the moment, but
> they're in one of the German museum photo collections and are
listed as 15th
> c. While the two legs are joined at the waistband, they aren't joined
> across the seat. The photo doesn't appear to show a lining, but I don't
> know what the preservation conditions were -- a linen lining might be lost
> under many conditions where the main fabric was preserved.
>
> On the larger question of extant hose -- if we include anything from
> buskins on up -- I have a couple dozen items in my current catalog from the
> general 8-15th century period. About half of them are ecclesiastical in
> origin, but during that period they seem to be roughly similar in
cut to the
> secular garments.
>
> Heather
>
>
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