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Sword Chick:
Thank you for your help so far Gentlemen. I appreciate any help or advice you send my way. :)
I'm trying to decide between the finger guantlets, simply for the hand protection (Das Bill can testify that I haven't found hand protection that I'm happy with yet, so this is a perpetual quest) or the demi-guantlets with the finger bucklers as a part of my kit that I'm trying to put together.
Would my garish yellow leather gloves be appropriate for either choice? Or should I quick get a new pair of gloves? (I'm talking historical accuracy, not aesthetics. ;) )
How appropriate would the demi-gauntlets be with the armour pieces I have thus far?
Allan Senefelder:
Pam I fogot to mention regarding demi's, they can be converted at a later date into finger gauntlets if desired. I've done this 3-4 times for folks in the past.
Sword Chick:
Thank you, Allan. That's good to know. :)
~Pamela
Das Bill:
--- Quote from: Sword Chick on 2008-10-21, 13:58:58 ---Would my garish yellow leather gloves be appropriate for either choice? Or should I quick get a new pair of gloves? (I'm talking historical accuracy, not aesthetics. ;) )
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Aside from the fact that I will still tease you about your dish-pan hands, I think yellow would be perfectly fine.
Sir Edward:
--- Quote from: Sword Chick on 2008-10-21, 13:58:58 ---Would my garish yellow leather gloves be appropriate for either choice? Or should I quick get a new pair of gloves? (I'm talking historical accuracy, not aesthetics. ;) )
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I don't remember if I've seen the yellow gloves. Are they a bright neon sort of yellow or a more natural yellow? I think the latter is fine, historically. During the medieval and renaissance periods, there was a wide range of available colors for dying leather and fabrics, and not all of the bright colors were restricted to the "expensive and difficult" upper-classes. Your yellow seems to be easier and more common than my blue, as blue was definitely difficult and expensive. Since leather is naturally in the yellow-tan-brown sort of color range anyway, yellow is probably not difficult to achieve with historical dyes.
I found this to be an interesting article:
http://www.renaissancedancewear.com/fabric_colors_in_the_renaissance.html
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