[Sca-cooks] Authenticity Police: since we're castigating extremists anyway.. .

[Elaine Koogler]

I do know that plain gold chains (not gold chains holding up some sort of pendant or
medallion), gold spurs and white belts (all white, not white and a bunch of other
colors as you described) are reserved on a corporate level to the Chivalry, just as
the Pelican in her piety is reserved to the Order of the Pelican and the green laurel
wreath on a gold field is reserved to the Order of the Laurel.  The only other
society-wide sumptuary restrictions are for hats...6 pearls for barons, 15 (I think)
for viscounts, crenelated for counts and strawberry leaves for dukes.  Also, I believe
that livery collars are reserved to those holding a Grant of Arms or better.

Hope this helps!

Kiri

Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> Elaine Koogler wrote:
> > Yeah, I caught the same grief at one of my early events over an obi (sash) I had
> > made out of unbleached muslin...not from this person, but the woman who was the
> > Principality Herald at the time.
>
> Yeah, I've heard this from a friend who came to the East from Meridies,
> and he had apparently had a similar experience, although what he was
> wearing was simply a multi-colored, striped belt of which white was only
> one of the colors.
>
> So, not having gone and looked it up myself like a good peer, can
> anybody tell me (preferably with some accuracy ;  )  ) whether white
> belts and other insignia are specifically reserved by Corpora for
> knights, etc., or is it really just an extremely well-observed
> tradition? I live in a kingdom that has no sumptuary laws on its books,
> so that's definitely not an issue.
>
> My point is, if one decided to tell anybody to go *<ahem>* themselves,
> and the horse they rode in on, if they had a problem with somebody's
> belt at their first event, what's there, reasonably, to stop them? Anything?
>
> Adamantius
> --
> Phil & Susan Troy
>
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>
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> things that get other people thrown out of games.  As long as they
> let him get away with it, it's going  to continue." -- Joe Torre, 9/98
>
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