01-06-2012, 07:03 AM
Amerindians wore buffalo robes (basically just a soft-tanned fur-on buffalo hide). Inuit wear various furs. Roman signifers, imaginfers and other -fers wore bear, maybe wolf, lion, and perhaps leopard skins as part of their military gear. (Roman -fers wore fur, heh)
Medieval kings and nobles wore fur and fur trimmed garments. If I lived in the forest, and it was cold, I'd wrap me in fur if I could get it. Some folks still wear fur, perhaps as much as a fashion statement of sorts as warmth. I've worn an elkskin coat. It's very warm, and stops out even the most bitter biting wind.
I don't think the Germanics were poor, Stone agers who wore fur like is supposed for the "cave men". But then, I don't think the cave men/Neolithic people did, either. They knew how to sew. And weave.
Ditto on the non-Flintstones look. I don't believe that would be the garment worn by anybody. But to wrap oneself in a bearskin or elkskin, or reindeer skin in a blizzard? Yep. Smart move. Documentation? Nope. The ancient Germanics in particular were bad about keeping written records.
Medieval kings and nobles wore fur and fur trimmed garments. If I lived in the forest, and it was cold, I'd wrap me in fur if I could get it. Some folks still wear fur, perhaps as much as a fashion statement of sorts as warmth. I've worn an elkskin coat. It's very warm, and stops out even the most bitter biting wind.
I don't think the Germanics were poor, Stone agers who wore fur like is supposed for the "cave men". But then, I don't think the cave men/Neolithic people did, either. They knew how to sew. And weave.
Ditto on the non-Flintstones look. I don't believe that would be the garment worn by anybody. But to wrap oneself in a bearskin or elkskin, or reindeer skin in a blizzard? Yep. Smart move. Documentation? Nope. The ancient Germanics in particular were bad about keeping written records.
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.