sleeveless tunics?

Bludvargr · Post by **Bludvargr** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:30 pm

How do your individual Living History/ reenactment groups view them? Is there any historical evidence for them?

Luca Sogliano · Post by **Luca Sogliano** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:50 pm

Sleeveless tunics are perfectly Roman, and more common than sleeved. Men had only very short sleeves if any, as long sleeves were considered effeminate.

But then, we're not Kievian-Rus!

Bludvargr · Post by **Bludvargr** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:53 pm

yeah well there's the problem fast forward about 500 years(post fall, not post imperial age), do they still exist? who wears them?

Cap'n Atli · Post by **Cap'n Atli** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:15 am

I'll have to dig around, but I do have an illustration of a farrier or horse groom ca. 1300 in a short, sleeveless tunic; or maybe a form of jerkin. I was pointing out to our folks that shorter hems tended to signify barbarians and lower-class folks (a later depiction of the martyrdom of King Edmond, among other illustrations).

Monday Night Forge tonight (fullering Marc's seax), so I may be a few days.

Bludvargr · Post by **Bludvargr** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 12:49 pm

that's cool. illuminations would be great, can't really dispute that evidence, you can say the artist was a doof...but you cant dispute it haha.