[MR] an easier answer - stop wearing coronets

[Stefan li Rous]

Baroness Rebecca said:
<<< Maybe we should even test the idea by having coronet-free  
weekends! And yes I'm extremely serious! >>>

To which Dulcy replied:
<<< That's a great idea, actually. That would send a clear message,  
and also keep everyone free of this silly little "mine's bigger" game  
that is evidently getting played. >>>

But the squabbles over pecking order and who can wear what is a very  
period concept. See the sumptuary laws and how often disobeying them  
was flaunted.

Maybe we should do the same. You can wear whatever coronet you wish,  
if you pay the appropriate 'fines' each year. Doesn't everyone say how  
much the SCA and the kingdoms, including Atlantia I assume, need money?

Of course, as in period, this wearing of gaudy, ugly coronets can get  
out of hand. See some of the links in this file to various period  
coronets. Did I say some of these look rather difficult to wear,  
overly gaudy and ugly?
coronets-msg (48K) 4/26/11 Medieval coronets and crowns. Modern sources
http://www.florilegium.org/files/ACCESS/coronets-msg.html

Is it common in Atlantia for Peers and Nobility to go around wearing  
their coronets and other insignia throughout an event? Or just in  
Court?  It seems in Ansteorra that many are stealth Peers and Nobles  
and you may not see them wearing coronets except in Court. And, at  
least on the SCA-Cooks maillist, there are many there that are Peers  
but you wouldn't know it from their signatures except sometimes from  
some side comments.Or when they display the attributes which probably  
got them their Peerages in the first place.

Stefan

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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas          StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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