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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:06 am
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:16 am
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:29 pm
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Yeah, I'm always fond of the wee ones in garb - it adds so much to an event.
At this past Lilies War, I was camped next to a few families, and their kids' garb, while not being super-fancy, was still well-made, beautiful, and period.
Best thing I've seen a kid wear - full-blown Tudor. And, on top of that, she was good and didn't get it dirty or mussed, which is no easy task for a kid. That kid rocked my socks. I even told her that, and then let her pick a bead out of my bead collection. I think her mom turned it into a necklace for her.
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:30 pm
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 11:30 am
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Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 6:58 am
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At A Simple Day In The Country this summer, I saw a family of four, kids dressed identically with the parents. I'm not up on European fashion, but these were dressed as very wealthy sorts, to be sure. Very fancy, very complicated, very well made. I thought they were fancy late-period Italians, and my flatmate thought they were fancy late-period English. Either way, they all looked quite lovely.
I also saw a woman who made every single thing she was wearing, and what she was wearing was fully period. I know because we were using the showers at the same time on Saturday night. She had period linen underthings, the whole complicated getup; a lovely period dress (I have no idea what to call it, but it was really pretty); period leggings; period leather turnshoes. She said she hadn't grown the flax for the linen herself, nor woven it, nor had she raised the cow and tanned the leather, but the rest was all her own work. She also won an award (I couldn't quite hear which) for her pursuit of authenticity. And mind you, she wasn't dressed as a fancy noble, but as a fairly average person. Haircut was a bit modern, and she wasn't wearing anything to cover her head, but she'd done a really spectacular job on her garb.
My garb was, I think, okay. In fact, I borrowed my first day's garb from the Gold Key! It was a simple grey chemise with a little bit of trim at the neck and around the upper arm like bands, a neckline that I thought was horribly low but the chatelaine thought was too high, and very slight narrowing just above the waist level (which is where I'm narrowest, so yay, that worked out). A chemise is supposed to be a shapeless undergarment on a European, but I wore it as an outer garment on a Near Eastern persona, and got compliment after compliment. The second day's garb was just a salwar kameez that I got in a neighborhood shop, that's all. Perfectly period; the salwar kameez has in fact been worn continuously throughout India and most of the Near East for the last 2000 years. Anyway, it went over well.
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Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:04 pm
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Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:15 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 1:03 pm
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:27 am
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Well, yes, if you're doing Byzantine, that's pretty much what the word "bling" is for! (Blingzantine?) But in all seriousness, there's more to amazing garb than wearing the cost of a small farm on your chest. I have seen absolutely stunning middle-class high middle ages garb more and more frequently. And I know how hard it is to fit a cotehardie, and what good linen looks like. I'll admit I've seen less people in beautiful lower-class garb, but I think that has to do with the fact most people don't have a persona lower than middle. Nevertheless, one does not need to look wealthy in order to make really good garb. Unless, or course, one is Blingzantine, as I said. wink
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:06 am
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Kittywitch Well, yes, if you're doing Byzantine, that's pretty much what the word "bling" is for! (Blingzantine?) But in all seriousness, there's more to amazing garb than wearing the cost of a small farm on your chest. I have seen absolutely stunning middle-class high middle ages garb more and more frequently. And I know how hard it is to fit a cotehardie, and what good linen looks like. I'll admit I've seen less people in beautiful lower-class garb, but I think that has to do with the fact most people don't have a persona lower than middle. Nevertheless, one does not need to look wealthy in order to make really good garb. Unless, or course, one is Blingzantine, as I said. wink
Blingzatine. I'm going to have to use that. XD
I totally agree. One of those things I think are stunning are good cotehardies - and they aren't blinged out. Make me drool every time I see one (then again, I've been toying with a secondary persona just so I can wear one).
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:05 pm
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Speaking of garb, I'm going to need some advice. I look awful in yellow, but my Pelican master just sent me a beautiful yellow belt, complete with a little brass bling on the tip -- his own Pelican master's symbol, and by the way, his own Pelican master, when he was a protege, was the first Pelican in the Society, so this is a very old and very treasure-able piece of bling. I am looking forward to the day when I can take on an apprentice and pass on this bling.
So, the advice: Do I wear something that goes with the yellow so that it doesn't clash, or do I buy/make garb that contrasts with the yellow so that it shows up well and so that I don't look sallow and ill?
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:49 pm
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:32 pm
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:07 pm
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