[Sca-cooks] ELIZABETHAN KITCHEN

[Leah A. Montgomery]

   I don't have any concrete evidence myself, but I do know that people have
grown considerably just in the past 70 yrs or so. I remember talking to my
mom a few years ago about all the people that wore larger size shoes, ie:
12-13-14 etc. She didn't think that this was possible and that they had
changed shoe sizes. I asked her to name for me every single one of the
people that she knew that was 6 foot or over when she was my age. She
immediately rattled off one name and said that she would always remember him
cause he was so much taller than every one else. He was only 6'1". Of
course, I then rattled off about a dozen names, all of them over 6'1". How
many people today are over 7 feet tall that would have had severe physical
problems 20-25 years ago that don't have anything wrong with them?
   I know that there are resources and studies out there that show just how
much we have grown and height ratios compared to people of all time periods,
I just can't find any right now.



Leah A. Montgomery
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>From: "Laura C. Minnick" <lcm at efn.org>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] ELIZABETHAN KITCHEN
>Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 19:29:24 -0700
>
>At 09:18 PM 4/22/03 -0500, you wrote:
> >--
> >Well, going into the buildings they built then, and looking at the
> >furniture -- yes, people were a foot to two feet smaller then, especially
> >the women.
> >
> >Esther
>
>A FOOT OR TWO?!? Unless you have some significantly different archeological
>data (which then I would like to see!) that is an overstatement at best.
>
>'Lainie
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