Good old days!

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  1. Well… maybe. It might have been formal court dress, worn by the nobility. And the monogram is that of Albrecht Dürer, who was based in Nuremberg and AFAIK never went to Livonia: in 1521 he had just returned from the Low Countries. He may have been sketching this from the garbled recollections of third parties.

    [This image is probably more accurate](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/LivoniaCitznsCmmnrs.png) (citizens in the top row, commoners in the bottom row).

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