Button and Loop fasteners on Paenula Cloak

[Crispvs]

Brian,

"your underlining clearly does nothing with regards to your assumption about sword suspension."

The point of the underlining was simply to emphasise something which I felt you had been ignoring.

Compare your statement:
"for there is no under view of a belt to give any evidence for this."
with the statement I underlined in my reply:
"we cannot see the inside of the cloak either"

Any reasonable person could see that these two statements both have equal weight. There are certainly what appear to be buttons on the Camomile Street soldier's cloak, but there is nothing which proves that they are button and loop attachments, nor that they are sewn to the inside of the cloak, although both remain strong possibilities.


Lastly, I would like to ask you, publicly, here on RAT, to stop rudely referring to the idea of the possible use of button and loop attachments in sword suspension as 'my assumption'.

It is not my idea at all. I don't know who first proposed it but it was some years ago now and the idea is now widespread, even if you have not signed up to it yourself.
Also, it is not an assumption either. It is a possibility - a valid one, but still nothing more than a possibility, just like the possibility that they were used for clothing, and I have never intensionally presented it as anything more than this. As you should well know from several years of corresponding with me over RAT, I am not fond of assumptions and regularly call people to account over them. I do occasionally propose possibilities, but I am not so self important that I then treat them with the status of facts.

Please attempt to be a little more polite to other members of this normally calm and reasonable community.

Crispvs