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Feb/Mar 2020NEWSLETTERAdelaide Branch Richard III SocietyMayMinutes of the meeting held Saturday 1st Feb 2020Chairwoman R McEvoy welcomed everyone and read the Mission Statement.Present were R McEvoy, S Walladge,V Walden, D Haynes, LCortez, A Cooper, J Carr, M Collings. Apologies from R Overy, J Forster, M Whitford. Absent K JonesNo minutes as December meeting was Christmas lunch which was very good as usual.Treasurer’s report was unavailable. Convention 2021 fund established with BankSA- RIII Society Cheque account with $229.45. Set up for internet banking, also no fees.CorrespondenceNSW member Helen Portus, one of the Albury one day conferences lives in Bundanoon and sent out bushfire report and photos.Article on branch meetings 2019 with Christmas meeting photo plus invitation to 2021 Australasian convention in Adelaide sent to editors of Ricardian Bulletin and will be included in March Bulletin.Branch and Groups annual report 2019 done and sent to Sally with a reply from her expressing concern over the bushfires and commenting on their (UK)perpetual rain!Affinity newsletter- new editor, new look.NCW- bill for room hire 2020 and news of Margaret Flint’s unexpected death. She used to send Sue articles on Richard III or Ricardian items from the various UK newspapers she read online. Bill to be given to Treasurer K Jones.General BusinessNCW room hire bill shows increase of $5 to $40 per meeting. It is proposed that meeting charge be increased by $1 to $6. J Carr suggested everyone pay up front an extra $11 at beginning of year and keep meeting charge at $5. Pointed out that some members are not here for all meetings so is that fair? It was suggested and then proposed (after further discussion) “that if a member knows they will be missing meetings (through holidays etc), to help with the finances that that member voluntarily makes a donation to cover the meeting charge for the number of meetings missed”.Proposed V Walden, seconded S Walladge. Passed unanimously. “It is proposed that the meeting charge be increased to $6.”Moved S Walladge seconded R McEvoy. Passed unanimously. Bank account for the Australasian convention established. Called RIII Society cheque account. Has no fees and statement once every 6 months. Set up for internet banking with R McEvoy and S Walladge. Current balance $229.45Brought up by BankSA that we should have 2 or more signatures on our Richard Third Society (Adelaide branch) Inc account. Need a volunteer or volunteers to be the extras. M Collings checked her copy of the constitution which says there should be 3 signatories, Treasurer, Secretary and one other. Suggested S Walladge as secretary be added and then R McEvoy, L Cortez or J Carr be the other. S Walladge to get in touch with K Jones to set up meeting at BankSA to add extra signatures to the account.Convention 2021- following up from last convention in Melbourne- better to change our programme to all day Saturday, 1/2 day Sunday so attendees to fly home Sunday afternoon/evening if necessary. Get together on Friday evening as a welcome to Adelaide and meal at Elephant and Castle as Rydges cafe not open in evening. Also include drinks package with dinner Saturday night. R McEvoy and S Walladge to organise meeting with Rydges event co-ordinator to re- organise plan.Costumes for the convention. Who needs one and who has one? Start thinking NOW about it. Collect material etc. November meeing- sewing bee. J Carr has access to overlockers and sewing machines. Members don’t need to sew, can cut out, help as needed etc. Access to patterns or where to find patterns?Meetings 2020March: J Carr on Richard and Anne- childhood sweethearts?April: DVD The Battle of TowtonMay: Oh no the Quiz!June: S Walladge Edward Iv the founder of the Old Royal Library.July: Coronation lunch * 12.30pm August: R McEvoy on Facts and Fiction about Richard IIISeptember: ABC talks by members. * Pick a Ricardian topic starting with A, B or C.October: AGM. November: sewing bee for costumesDecember: Christmas lunch- theme TBADVD not watched as business section was long. So afternoon tea and associated chit chat.Addendum: Treasurer K Jones contacted and meeting with him at BankSA branch in Rundle Mall Friday 7th February. S Walladge and J Carr to see if they can be added as signatories to the bank account.Ricardian newsDear all,It is with great sadness that we have to inform you that our dear friend Kevin Herbert passed away after a long illness.? His funeral service will be held on Thursday, 5 March 2020, at 10.30am at Immaculate Catholic Church, Raglan Street, Manly.? The funeral is at 12.30 at Frenchs Forest Bushland Cemetery, 1 Hakea Avenue, Davidson.? Afterwards, the wake will be the Belrose Hotel, 5 Hews Parade, Belrose 2085.Kevin was a long-time member of the NSW Branch of the Richard III Society. He will always be remembered for his enthusiasm about anything Ricardian and his vast knowledge of the era.? He will be greatly missed.Kind regards Dorothea PreisMembership Secretary, Publications Coordinator & UK Liaison, NSW Branch, Richard III SocietyEuropean Yorkist magazine emailed out to our members.When checking through my document files I found this article, which relates back to Judith’s talk in November 2019 10 Fun Fashion Facts from the Middle AgesJune 28, 2015 by By Danièle CybulskieRecently, I wrote a post about medieval fabrics that contained some interesting information from Margaret Scott’s Fashion in the Middle Ages. What I didn’t include then were some of the most interesting facts I learned from reading that book. Here are ten fascinating fashion facts for your enjoyment (I’ve saved my favourites for last). 1. Everybody loved straw hats.I’ve often seen illustrations of peasants working the fields in straw hats to keep the sun off their heads, but Scott claims that “straw hats were worn outdoors by all ranks in the summer”. I would imagine that nobles wore fancier versions of the conventional straw hat, but it’s interesting to hear that fashion extended to the practical – sometimesmedieval straw hats – Grimani Breviary: The Month of June2. Sometimes fashion was not so practical. We’ve all seen the long, pointy shoes and long, pointy hats that were all the rage in the fourteenth century. Clearly, those could not be considered useful by any means, which is why it was the idle nobles who sported those articles. Apparently, “in 1366, the French king prohibited the production of long-toed shoes and stockings, in the vain hope that by cutting off the source of supply of the latest excesses of fashion, he could eradicate the fad itself”. No such luck. People loved their pointy shoes. Fashionistas who sported up-to-the-minute headdresses that covered their ears also found themselves missing out on the conversation. Vanity, it seems, required some sacrifices.Pointy shoes – Detail of a 15th century illuminated manuscript of Renaud de Montauban.3. Commoners used accessories to stay hip.Because it took so very long to hand-spin, hand-weave, and hand-sew clothing, peasants could not afford to continually make new clothes to follow changing trends. However, they could, Scott says, have “a passing acquaintance with high fashion in the shape of accessories such as belts or shoes”. Belts would be something that could be bought at an annual fair, where peasants could also see how the most fashionable people were now wearing their belts (high up, at the waist, or low on the hips).4. Sheep were versatile creatures.Although I often think of “natural”-coloured fabric to always be off-white, Scott says, “undyed sheep’s wool… could be used to create fabrics in hues ranging from near-black via brown to gray and off-white”. This would be handy for those of humble religious orders who wanted distinctive habits, but who also wanted to avoid being seen to buy expensive, dyed fabrics (a criticism levelled by the Franciscans against other orders).5. Doctors cut striking figures.While it would have been easy to spot a noble at a glance because of his or her clothing, there were other categories of dress which made it just as easy to spot people in different categories. For example, Scott mentions that from the fourteenth century on, scarlet clothing was to be worn by a “doctor of any university subject”, and that “in Paris… those who taught medicine at the university were required from 1350 onward to wear good-quality, violet-coloured cloth”. The well-educated were not meant to be fashionable – and they were definitely not allowed to wear green – but they were certainly meant to stand out of the crowd.6. Those multicoloured outfits we always see medieval servants wear actually have a name.Servants in noble houses were usually required to wear livery in the colours of their patrons, and those outfits that were “split vertically into halves of two different colours” were called “mi parti”. Scott says the colours the servants wore signified rank, at first, and later simply household.7. The clothing created for ceremonial occasions was supposed to be like that of “the good old days”.Ceremonial clothing was special, and often created just for one event. Scott says, “Many of these garments had once been fashionable, but they became items retained for occasions when currently fashionable dress might have seemed too ephemeral”. Instead, the clothing worn was meant to imply unbroken tradition by hearkening back to times of yore.8. Priests rocked hand-me-downs.After wearing a fabulous outfit at one high-profile event, some nobles felt it would reflect badly on them to be caught in the same outfit at another. But what could be done with such sumptuous pieces of clothing? For one thing, a person could give his or her hand-me-downs to the church to be turned into vestments. That way, the expensive clothing could be used to elevate the look of high-status priests, and the donations would reflect well on the donors, perhaps earning them a few extra prayers.9. Italians rocked slipper-socks.Why put on socks and shoes when you can save time by just putting on socks? According to Scott, fashionable Italians around 1400 didn’t bother wearing actual shoes, but wore “stockings with leather soles” instead. It just goes to show that all of our most wonderful ideas come back around every few hundred years or so.The Competition in Sittacene and the Placating of Sisigambis10. Only the nobility had buttocks worthy of show.Like twentieth-century skirts, medieval tunic lengths moved up and down as fashions changed. In the Late Middle Ages, tunics were very, very short, but only for those with the worthiest buttocks. “In England in 1463,” says Scott, “the wearing of short tunics that revealed the male buttocks was restricted by law to the upper classes.” Peasant posteriors were simply too vulgar to contemplate, let alone see. While these are my favourite facts from Margaret Scott’s Fashion in the Middle Ages, it is definitely a worthwhile read, with beautiful, full-colour pictures of all these fun fashions for anyone interested in the Middle Ages – or noble buttocks.?Chairwoman Rilla McEvoy Secretary Sue Walladge Contact Mobile 0411336927 walladge@internode. susanmjw@ If you have an urgent email please use my gmail email as that’s checked dailywebsite richardiii-.au Please note due to our connection to the NBN Sue no longer has a Telstra home phone so the 08 84436153 will not work. ................
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