Timeline for How were small swords worn in the 18th century?
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| Apr 19, 2015 at 19:54 | comment | added | Elrond | (My bad, didn't get to a machine, so that was only an auto-awarded bounty :-( ) | |
| Apr 19, 2015 at 19:52 | vote | accept | Elrond | ||
| Apr 18, 2015 at 22:30 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
| Apr 14, 2015 at 15:20 | comment | added | Tyler Durden | For a portrait like that the subject would use a sword belt, more like my second photograph. These are sometimes called "girdles". The problem with a girdle is that it tends to fall down. I don't see the question as being ambiguous or unanswerable. | |
| Apr 14, 2015 at 11:34 | comment | added | Elrond | Thanks. Do you know, why the baldric was worn (invisible) under the waist coat in many cases (like in my example pictures)? Could you also comment on the "red herring"? | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 16:13 | comment | added | Tyler Durden | @Elrond The basic type of belts for wearing a sword are the same for any kind of use, military or civilian. While it is possible to hang an eyed scabbard from a ribbon (see my comment on cords in the answer), that would be quite a dandy thing to do, and would not be usual. | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 15:50 | comment | added | Elrond | You are mostly referencing military things. That's fine. I was mostly interested in civil use. I admit not saying so explicitly in my question (only implicitly by not talking about military and showing civil examples). I think, a small sword/dress sword was seldom used in military? That said, multiple issues have been raised in comments and in the main question. For example this was suggested: "Ribbons sewn into the coat were used for hanging swords in the first half of the 17th century." Could you try to address most of them as well? | |
| Apr 10, 2015 at 23:03 | history | answered | Tyler Durden | CC BY-SA 3.0 |