SC - Re: Killer cooks

[margali]

I would make the assumption that the butchers [men] wore the almost knee breeches
and plain infrilly shirt and plain jerkin thing that is seen worn in woodcuts and
other illos of huntsmen and tradesmen, ie-lower class working scum. Only somebody
who doesnt have to do the laundry would ruin a linen shirt with blood stains!
margali
and the working class women dodnt wear all of the frills and furbelows
either-that's why there is a class on working class elizabethan at pennsic this
year!


>
> > << You mean they didn't dress down to Saxon, Viking, Generic Early, or
> >  Mundane when doing strenuous or dirty work?  >>
> >
> > The fact of the matter is that anyone from the Elizabethan era that dressed
> > in 'full' Elizabethan garb never so much as lifted a knife to butcher a veal
> > calf.  I fail to see the point of this thread.....:-(
>
> Funny, since you seem to be in agreement with everyone else on this. I'm
> just wondering what Elizabethan English butchers wore when working, and
> why it doesn't qualify as "full Elizabethan". Presumably there is some
> kind of jargon involved, but whose? Is this modern costuming terminology
> (which might have some defensible basis in reality, or might not),
> arbitrary SCAdian pseudolanguage (which probably doesn't), or did Lady
> Elinor Fettiplace record, in her diary, having worn "my fulle
> Elizabethan" on her wedding day...?
>
> Adamantius