Robin Hood: everything you wanted to know
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Did He Really Wear a Green Outfit?
The custom of robin hood seems to be just basicly based on later mediaeval clothing as depicted in manuscript illustrations. So obviously, green is the colour you want in a forest if you're hiding for camflie. But acty one point in the jest, the menar dressed in bright red, which is mind o hide from your enemy. Which again goes to showi that i think you should take the jest not too seriously, as evidence a but ace.
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