What does the smart courtier wear in these halcyon days of 1386?<\/p>\n
Pointed shoes, commonly known as poulaines, are still being worn – but the really cool courtier goes for latch strap shoes for casual wear.\u00a0 Stay light on your feet with this stylish kid leather footwear.<\/p>\n
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Best head-gear?\u00a0 A smart little bowler with a small brim, black for preference to off-set your gaudy parti-coloured hosen,<\/p>\n
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Capes are worn short, not an inch below the hips the better to accentuate your thighs.\u00a0 Tilting at the quintaine, actual jousting if you’re up to it,\u00a0 or at least spending an hour or so astride a mettlesome destrier once a day will keep your thighs firm and fit to be seen in the latest fine wool jeggings.<\/p>\n
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Still wearing a houpeland?\u00a0 However you spell it – should you be able to write of course! – if you’re still appearing in one of these shapeless old things you may as well stay in your night-shirt and have done with it.\u00a0 You’ll never be at the cutting edge of fashion until you throw it\u00a0 out and don something svelte like a hip-length tunic with or without your lord’s blazon on front or back.<\/p>\n
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Next time:\u00a0 the knight and what the smartest of these fellas is wearing.\u00a0 Watch this space.<\/p>\n
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What does the smart courtier wear in these halcyon days of 1386? Pointed shoes, commonly known as poulaines, are still being worn – but the really cool courtier goes for latch strap shoes for casual wear.\u00a0 Stay light on your feet with this stylish kid leather footwear. Best head-gear?\u00a0 A smart little bowler with a small brim, black for preference to off-set your gaudy parti-coloured hosen, Capes are worn short, not an inch below the hips the better to accentuate your thighs.\u00a0 Tilting at the quintaine, actual jousting if you’re up to it,\u00a0 or at least spending an<\/p>\n[Read More...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}