Q: If you are wearing a nice dress (something that would look good at court) how do you wear a dagger? I feel naked without some steel, but it seems to clash with the dresses my friends have been making me lately. A: I don’t know that there’s any evidence …
… the only material that I can find to make a surcote with is only 3 and some yards long; thus the question about fur tops. Since that doesn’t look to be period for me, that’s out. Katrine, if that’s enough to make the cote you mentioned, that would be …
(A compendium of information from discussions on the 12th Century Garb Yahoo Group list) ” I don’t have my own special theory on construction [of the bloat]. I have noticed, however, that when you wrap the ubiquitous girdle around twice the dress does tend to ruck up in the abdomen …
