As a side note, I was in a public place in San Francisco yesterday, and saw two men who obviously knew each other, each wearing plain band rings on their left middle fingers. I don't know if they were in San Francisco for our Pride event this Sunday, and it was some Gay usage I don't know about, or pure coincidence on two straight friends. I didn't ask or say anything.
See what you think of this one: > Frances Brandon Lady Dacre & son, Hans Eworth, 1559 > It looks like she has only 3 fingers & 1 thumb showing on her right > hand. That's a big band on her middle finger. > --cin > Cynthia Barnes > cinbar...@gmail.com > > From: Maggie <maggi...@gmail.com> > I know of one full length portrait of Mary Queen of Scots, and I believe > I've seen a couple other examples (possibly German), but they're way > out-numbered. According the author of the book I mentioned, the middle > finger "is for fools", but he doesn't really say much else about it. > Although he does say a similar habit prevailed among the ancient Greeks and > Romans and contemporary (1917) Hindus. -- Carolyn Kayta Barrows -- “The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.” -William Gibson -- _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
