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

[Wanda Pease]

Err.  Kiri,  I believe we get our ideas for hats from Fox Davies.  At any
rate when I read it the "rule" was 6 pearls for a Baron and 8+ for a
Viscount/ess.
for a while it was the fashion in Drachenwald to put the number of pearls
that equaled what number Prince or Princess you had been.  Therefore the 9th
Viscount/ess used 9 Pearls.

Re "white belts".  I know I have asked a young man who was just putting his
belt on if he were a knight.  The belt was "natural" and it was just coming
on dusk.  It was really hard to tell from a dirty white belt (fighters, you
can send them out clean and then they roll in the mud! ;-).  He seemed put
out when I suggested that he might not want to use it, but certainly could
if he chose.  The knights present wouldn't have hassled him, but the squire
might have.  It always seems to be the wanna-be's more than the people who
earned the regalia that get their knickers in a bunch.

Viscountess Regina Romsey
(5th Princess, but with 8 pearls)

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


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

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