But I doubt if seeing a kind of battle between a gradually declining cool style and an, at first, replenishingly hot one is the best way to look at the past ten years in jazz.
To reinforce the left arm from the shoulder to the wrist, a large L-shaped plate called a pasguard, or soprabracciale, is screwed to the threaded socket in the left elbow of the vambrace (fig. 81). The pasguard overlaps the grandguard at the shoulder and keeps the left arm in a bent position. […] the combination of grandguard, pasguard and manifer protected the rider's left side, […]
[image; caption:] Fig. 81. Pasguard (soprabracciale) from the Dos Aguas garniture (27.159.4)
Lucilla remained standing before the glass, arranging her wind-tossed hair; and, in her vehemence, tearing out combfuls, as she pulled petulantly against the tangled curls.
