Wearing crowns all day every day is really an SCA thing. Normally you would wear whatever was appropriate to your costume. Kings and Queens would wear crowns when they were being royal, court, parades, etc. Nobility only wears their crowns for formal ritual occasions like coronations.
Marlo Peck On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Kathleen Norvell <app...@aol.com> wrote: > > A cap of maintenance is also appropriate when it's too "informal" to > wear a crown. > > Definition of CAP OF MAINTENANCE > > 1: a cap formerly worn as a symbol of office or high rank and still used > as the cap of state borne before the British sovereign on certain > ceremonial occasions and in modified form as the lining of British royal > crowns and peers' coronets. > > > > http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/microsites/thequeensyear/MicroObject.asp?row=0&themeid=1164&item=0 > > I looked for more examples, but that was all I found. You can see them in > medieval artwork. > > Kathleen Norvell > app...@aol.com > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Elizabeth W <elizabeth.r.walp...@gmail.com> > To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com> > Sent: Tue, Aug 20, 2013 11:04 pm > Subject: [h-cost] crowns and hats how do you combine them? > > > Hello everyone, I vaguely remember seeing a link to a collection of images > f people (especially women) wearing crowns in SCA period (i.e. pre > 7thcentury) artworks. Does this ring a bell for anyone? I was joking > ith my > usband the other day that it’s a good thing he neither of us does heavy > ighting as if we became King & Queen I couldn’t wear a crown with the > ormal headwear that suits my persona (French hoods for c. 1540s English > omen) and then it occurred to me that other people must have had this > roblem and I wondered how people deal with similar problems of crowns and > omplicated headwear. > > - > ----------------------------------------- > lizabeth Walpole > ttp://magpiecostumer.wordpress.com/ > ttp://magpiecostumer.110mb.com/ > ______________________________________________ > -costume mailing list > -cost...@mail.indra.com > ttp://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > _______________________________________________ > 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
