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

[Ted Eisenstein]

>In all the examples in Maddelena's post, the items were listed as (for
>example):
>
>The following badge associated with this name was registered in
>June of 1982 (via Laurel) and redesignated as regalia in October of 1998
Ooops. I must have bleeped over that bit. Sorry.

>Wouldn't "and redesignated as regalia" mean that it has been made
>sumptuary?
Well. . . . errrr. . . . . yes. Oops.

>Of course, sumptuary laws were pretty widely flaunted in the MA.  And,
>does a mundane College of Arms have the right to designate regalia?  Is
>this a period concept?
Sumptuary? Yes. Dunno who promulgated such things, though: I believe
it'd have to be signed into law by the Crown - but whether it originated
with the Crown, or with the appropriate heraldic authorities, or
the appropriate Parliament,  I dunno.
In the SCA, yeah, there are sumptuary laws. But I've never heard of them
actually being enforced by anything other than, errr, Peer pressure
<grin>, and I have no idea _how_ they'd be enforced by any other means.
It's not as if we could pay monetary fines, or get thrown into jail, or
anything. . .

Alban