[SCA-AE] Norris (was Re: minor period nazi)

[Ruth Morrisson]

Greetings from Myfanwy!
Norris is both a good and a bad source.  I'm not as familiar with that  
volume as with the Medieval one, but he has a really bad habit of  
redrawing stuff and not necessarily saying where it's from.  Try  
looking at the medieval one sometime -- his picture of the women in  
that really famous picture from the Luttrell psalter, wearing heraldic  
sideless surcotes, makes them look like 20s-era chorus girls!
Ironically, a quarter of a century ago (i.e., back when I joined the  
SCA) people kept hoping that Dover would reprint the series to make  
them affordable; by the time Dover did, Norris was no longer considered  
the best available documentation.
On Tuesday, July 3, 2007, at 11:11  AM, Jeannie Caffro wrote:

> There is an excellent book on Tudor costume by Norris; it contains  
> lots of detail on both men's and women's accessories, hats, shoes,  
> sleeve variations, and shows differences between English and French  
> styles.  You might find it to be useful.  It has both line drawings  
> and plates; I'm not sure if it is still in print or not, but I got my  
> copy a couple of years ago, and would be willing to let you see it if  
> you can't find it at your library. The title is "Tudor Costume and  
> Fashion" and the author is Herbert Norris; the publisher is Dover, and  
> the ISBN is 0-486-29845-0; my edition is the 1997 Unabridged  
> Republication in one volume, with a new introduction by Richard Martin  
> (Curator of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art).   
> The book covers Tuder England from 1485 to 1603 (Henry VII through  
> Elizabeth I), so it should have pretty much everything you're looking  
> for.
>
>   Strictly speaking, Tudor is restricted to England; if they want  
> French, it would Renaissance, and come under the fashions of whichever  
> monarch was ruling at the time - but there are several books that give  
> good overviews on general European fashions, and include more than one  
> country.
>
>   Hope this helps somewhat.
>
>   Madeleine de l'Este
>
> Isobeau Westerman <isobeauwest at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   Sorry, someone is asking me for a minor period nazi costume saying  
> it is french tudor. I thought there might be something I couldn't  
> find. : `)
> oh well.
>
> harry beck wrote:
> minor period nazi???????????
> eoghan
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Ruth Morrisson
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