"Riding gaiters/Leggings" Topic
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| 42flanker | 17 May 2020 10:40 a.m. PST |
Greetings. This question takes us away from the field of battle, or the lists but perhaps members of this board can help. I'd be grateful to be directed to a source of information on forms of riding gaiters or leggings- known as housseaux in C15th French-, worn when trsvelling on horseback. Any morsels appreciated. Many thanks. JF |
| bsrlee | 17 May 2020 7:11 p.m. PST |
A year or so ago they found a set of thigh length riding boots in the Thames mud, with the skeletal legs of the last owner still in them. |
| dapeters | 22 May 2020 3:40 a.m. PST |
You see riding boots booth up to the thigh and pulled down off the thigh in a lot of the period art. I am wondering what the benefit was over riding boots? Cheaper? |
| 42flanker | 01 Jun 2020 9:40 a.m. PST |
Cheaper perhaps. Lighter than riding boots. Cooler. Essentially the same principle as riding gaiters, chaps or 'half chaps'today. |
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