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Black Swan Designs wrote:City of God seems to have been moved, so I couldn't take a look. Bummer. :sad:

Go to http://www.hismercy.ca/content/ebooks/C ... tents.html and click on BOOK VII.

Black Swan Designs wrote:Have you found the hula skirt in any ordinary, everyday, secular, not weird setting?

Again ... I've only found it in these three French manuscripts from the late 15th century (the City of God at Museum Meermanno, the Speculum Historiale at the BNF, and the Golden Legend at the BNF). In all three instances, there are plenty of examples of women wearing nothing at all -- so I don't think this is just a modesty thing -- if it were, then why is the illustrator okay with leaving St. Faith nekkid when her sisters St. Hope & St. Charity get to wear their hula-panties elsewhere in the same illustration? (Was it a chilly day? Maybe Faith just didn't need to wear it because she was plenty warm over the fire.)

I haven't been doing a whole lot of intensive research on this, though. It's just been something that'd turned up while looking for other interesting bits of material culture to smack onto my linkspages. :)
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Sorry, I didn't mean to cross examine you, I'm just really interested. I have a fairly extensive library and a slow internet connection, so I don't spend a huge amount of time cruising the online sources. The BNF site is particularly frustrating for me because every time I find something interesting to look at the images won't load or only load halfway. :?

Anyway, it will be interesting to see if anyone picks up on the hula skirt, or if it becomes the latest medieval dressup fad.

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Black Swan Designs wrote:Anyway, it will be interesting to see if anyone picks up on the hula skirt, or if it becomes the latest medieval dressup fad.

Gwen


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