Pointy Hats Redux

[merriehaskell]

It's funny, in re-reading my pointy hat entry from yesterday, I realize it sounds like, at the end, I'm overwhelmed by the work and displeased I have to change all the dresses, but that's not true! It's just a thing on a list.

I tend to wonder if I get bogged down in writing long journal entries about problems in my writing, and the entry itself

Comments

[sartorias]

Court women might have worn French fashions, but I thought the rest were in German or Russian fashions, with regional variations.

[merriehaskell]

It's hard to say with Romanians. The court women were probably wearing Hungarian fashion at the time. That's not much easier to find. The culture flow was not typically between Russia and Romania at this point (not even Kievan Russia). Poland, a little. It's also hard to find the 1480s fashions from Poland and Hungary, I might add! The Saxon migration into Transylvania (as sponsored by Hungary) might make a German influence the most likely.

The few visual references of males at the time show them in clothes that fit with the female dresses I'm picking out, so I do have that much to go on.

Fwiw, I'm rock solid on my main character's clothes, as a peasant. It's the dang court ladies who are messing me up.

[txanne]

I wonder if anything's been translated from Romanian into French. If so, I can help.

[merriehaskell]

Of the materials available to me, a very little bit--but I'm good at reading French. Or rather, good enough. Particularly anthropological/archaeological French--a huge chunk of my sources for my big three anthro papers in college were in French!

But thanks!

[helaaspindakaas]

I hate when I'm obtuse.

[merriehaskell]

I have absolutely no idea what this means.

[iuliamentis]

*cries*

[helaaspindakaas]

It's Warden Norton from The Shawshank Redemption. #1 on the IMDB Top 250!

Have you not seen this? If not, you are getting it for the next celebration-oriented holiday, 'cause that needs to be rectified immediately.

[alexandralynch]

Want me to ask my friend-the-recreational-medievalist who has done a lot of research on Romanian life, including clothing?

[merriehaskell]

Uhm, heck yes!

[dendrophilous]

We have an official guest bedroom.

I didn't think your previous entry sounded upset. But then, I spent most of it wondering where the word "hennin" came from and trying to remember how I'd pictured the hats in the draft I'd read. (Because if you said "butterfly hennin", I'd have no idea what that meant.)

[merriehaskell]

I would like to apply to be an official guest, then. :)