[Sca-cooks] Bellybuttons and garb

[Phlip]

Actually, Jadwiga, while I was playing around, researching bunny fur
bikinis, I discvered that many women athletes, before the Church got so
repressive, wore breast bands and small loin cloths, as a sporting costume.

It's not unknown, it's just appropriate to only certain cultures and time
periods- which really, is what we all need to learn and understand about
ANYTHING declared "period".

Phlip

----- Original Message -----
From: <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 7:52 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Bellybuttons and garb


>
>  Greetings! I'd like to take this opportunity to publically eat crow.
>
>  In the course of some discussions, I've been saying that while SCA-cooks
often use the term
>  'not documentably period' to mean 'it's not a from a period recipe',
other people (for
>  instance, on the SCA-arts list) often use 'not documentably period' to
mean 'things they are
>  pretty sure aren't period but someone might suddenly discover are period'
and giving
>  examples including crochet and belly-button-revealing garb. Some nice
person kindly repeated
>  that back to a friend of mine, who pointed out that there is a culture
known in the Old
>  World that has lots of documented revealing of belly buttons-- that would
be Indian (as in
>  'Indian subcontinent') and of course I kicked myself. Because I _do_ know
that, when I'm
>  paying attention. So, if I led anybody astray, I'm sorry!
>
> -- Jadwiga, feeling really stupid.
>
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