ANST - Thigh High Boots
Brent Hanner
behanner at mindspring.com
Wed Nov 17 19:10:05 PST 1999
YTHmin at aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 11/17/99, 5:31:15 PM, ansteorra at Ansteorra.ORG writes:
> <<For which period are you wanting to do them in?>>
>
> picky picky picky
> To rephrase the question
> Are thigh High boots proper attire for the time period which the society
> covers ?
the earliest I've seen evidence for them is some time durring the 14th
century.
But the question that was asked is very important. Would a knight on
the first
crusade be wearing a pair? No (unless someone has evidence I've never
seen which
is posible) but a 15th century Geramn? Yes.
Peder
--
"It has to be this way," I said, "and truely I shall soon be dead
for here shall I give up my life since I have lost the lovely wife
and that because of my own fault. So it's myself I shall assault
and seek this so ignoble death. In truth, I want no life or breath."
Service of Ladies by Ulrich von Lichtenstien
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