Clean Cut or Beardy?
I'm no stranger to an event with some lively Morris Men bawdiness, however, it wasn't until last weekend's Wassail at a fruit farm in Worcestershire that I realised I actually had a preference for how 'earthy' I like them to be. The clean cut whites and neat tabards of troupes such as the Worcester Morris are not for me I fear. I'm not convinced of how commited they are to ribaldry, cat-a-wailing and pewter tankards. Give me the bearded variety with bawdy bells at the knee, fresh cow parsley in their hat and a face blackened with burnt cork.
What's your preference?
Worcester's Faithful City Morris with the county's black pears upon their neat tabards
Leominster Morris (image from Bill Bradshaw's excellent cider blog HERE)
Silurian Border Morris, Ledbury 1997 source
A wandering folk minstrel who wandered into shot, complete with albatros feather in his weathered hat. Spot the tankard - that's more like it!
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Beards get a thumbs up from me too!