Sumptuary customs was Re: [Sca-cooks] Pickled or no? -

[Susan Fox-Davis]

[/me falls down laughing]

It's good to live in a kingdom without sumptuary laws and darned few
sumptuary customs?  What, any mere king try to tell Caidans how to dress?
It is to laugh.  Hey, there is nothing wrong with Caid that getting rid of
all these image-conscious Southern Californians wouldn't fix right up.

Selene, used foodie Pel [and culinary arts grantee, so that puts me in the
Junior Varsity of the arts world at least, I'm thinkin']


On 9/28/04 5:46 PM, "Sue Clemenger" <mooncat at in-tch.com> wrote:

> I'm having this Artemisian moment here....
> envisioning these bibs with a border of white fur/cloth for chiv, yellow
> fur/cloth for pels, and green fur/cloth for laurels. <g>
> (for the vast majority of you out there who are NOT from my home
> kingdom, I'm referring to an odd bit in our Sumptuary Customs that
> details who can wear what kind of display of arms on their
> cloaks/mantles.  It says that the respective orders above are allowed
> these special cloaks with those special borders...the sheer idea of
> green fur made me want to just shudder.  or barf.  or both.)
> --maire, old, used non-foodie laurel
> 
> Susan Fox-Davis wrote:
> 
> 
>> Around here, It's not an Official Meal until Selene has spilled food on
>> her chest.  I'm thinking about producing a line of high-fashion bibs,
>> classy fabric and glitzy trim with lots and lots of Scotch-Guard or
>> Camp-Dri sprayed thereon.
>> 
>> Selene
>>