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Very cool article, but those of us who wear natural fibers at events and on a regular basis could have told them this, without them going to Everest. :)

Replica clothes pass Everest test
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5076634.stm

"Over the past few weeks, climber Graham Hoyland has been putting the old-style clothing worn on the fateful Mallory expedition to the ultimate field test on the world's highest mountain.

Wearing replica gear made from gabardine, wool, cotton and silk, he wanted to disprove the common myth that the 1920s climbers were ill-equipped to reach the summit.

"This is just another brick in my wall of evidence," Hoyland said.

Following the discovery of Mallory's body on the north face of Everest in 1999, a team of forensic textile experts from Lancaster, Leeds, Southampton and Derby universities embarked on an experiment to recreate the outfit from samples of Mallory's clothing which had been preserved in ice."

Website updates

Website updates

I've finally updated Introduction to 16th century German Costuming with new art resources, books and history links from a class I taught this last January.

I've also added a new article, Timeline of Events and Fashions in the Germanic Lands 15th and 16th centuries Its a short little history time line with relavant fashions from the period. Its not a comprehensive list of every single historical event or fashion, but it should at least give you a grounding in what happened when and what they might have been wearing.