RE: [Mid] Wearing of simple regalia (was: ambition)

From: Gray, Lyle <Lyle_at_Quodata.Com>
Date: Thu 01 May 1997 08:42:18 AM EDT
Message-ID: <c=US%a=_%p=Quodata%l=QUOCOMM-970501124218Z-4291@hartford.quodata.com>

>>Kymrii wrote:.
>>
>>I do admit that I don't live in the Middle Kingdom, but this statement
>>made me wonder: Is (or was) the Midrealm one of those kingdoms that
>>required an AoA before someone could wear a metal circlet of a
>>particular size, or the bearing of a sword (I've also heard you needed
>>to be authorized to fight in order to be able to bear a sword in some
>>kingdoms)?

Actually, Kymrii didn't write that, _I_ did.

>I don't know about sumptuary laws, but a wise man said: "In the SCA, two
>kinds of people wear swords--knights and geeks. Don't be a geek."

Well, _that's_ a different take on it. Where might that wise man have
been from?

Lyle FitzWilliam
Bergental, East

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