Can someone explain this to me?

[treeskin]

We'd done our weekend running last night, in case the weather got as bad as the forecasters had been predicting. While in Hobby Lobby in Lawrence, a group of people stopped me, complimented my cape (the Japanese kimono coat I wear), and wanted to know if By and I were reenactors of some sort. I smiled, said yes, we used to be SCA, and what gave it away? One of the gentlemen in the group ticked off, in this order, the way we carried ourselves, our hair length, and By's facial hair. Oh, and then, lastly, the coats.

I'm still trying to figure out what they meant by "the way you carry yourselves".

Thoughts?

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[ladymurmur.livejournal.com]

Re-enactors tend to develop a strong sense of self - and I don't mean their persona. They are aware of their world (even if it is only the one peopled by their imagination), who they are, what they are doing, and how much they have fun doing it.

When you're brave enough to wander through the grocery store in garb, and to smile at the little girls staring open mouthed at "the princess", it shows.

:-) And maybe I'm not the only person who wanders through the world, looking at people, and picturing them in garb. Some folks undress people with their eyes -- I tend to dress them. Some folks were simply MADE to wear bodices or tights. It shows.

end babble.

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[treeskin.livejournal.com]

I'm still jumpy as heck (paranoid, much?), so I do pay close attention to what's around me. Didn't think that made me look like a reenactor, though.

...wanders through the world, looking at people, and picturing them in garb.
That sounds like something our friend Brenda would say; she worked at the KC Renfest for about 15 years, andhad very definite opnions about who should (and shouldn't) be wearing which styles.

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[ladymurmur.livejournal.com]

*mutters to self...* ooh! He should definitely be in tights...Throw a doublet on that cutie! Oh, she would look just killer in Elizabethan.... No, No, NO! Bad fake Scotsman - you do NOT get the blue ribbon!

:-)

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[treeskin.livejournal.com]

Yup. I've had those conversations with Brenda. Almost word-for-word.