Can someone explain this to me?
Feb. 1st, 2004 04:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
treeskinWe'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?
I'm still trying to figure out what they meant by "the way you carry yourselves".
Thoughts?
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Date: 2004-02-01 02:11 pm (UTC)People used to wearing a Kimono (esp women) tend to shuffle their feet.
I know the ones around here don't look natural unless they have broad sword straped to their backs.
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Date: 2004-02-01 04:22 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2004-02-01 05:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-02 12:40 am (UTC)....
Some re-enactors walk as-if they know someone is watching,
some heathens move as-if they know their connection with the earth,
and some of the people I know are More Real than the people I meet each day.
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Jera,
Part of it is how you walk,
part of it is that knowing chuckle you have,
and part of it stems from being who you are.
You and By are different from the crowd in several good ways.
Let it show.
Love,
Adam
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there. not too bad for just typing away.
ok. I admit it, I went back and corrected spelling.
It's the influence of my job at the printing house.
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Date: 2004-02-02 08:53 am (UTC)By suggested it was just that "you know how to handle the amount of fabric in that coat".
I was half afraid
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Date: 2004-02-02 08:57 am (UTC)...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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Date: 2004-02-02 09:00 am (UTC)Nevermind any comments about palpating auras, or anything else......
Sword Play Anyone???
Date: 2004-02-02 09:22 am (UTC)You could always walk around naked and see if you get the same response. ~venemous smiles~
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Date: 2004-02-02 09:53 am (UTC)It's way too cold to talk around nekkid right now. And when it's not too cold, well, there's some things that just shouldn't gewt sunburned.
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Date: 2004-02-02 10:34 am (UTC):-)
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Date: 2004-02-02 03:37 pm (UTC)And thank you, by the way.
It was just odd, having a complete stranger come up and ask that question....we were dressed very normally, I thought, and couldnt' think of why else she would have asked.
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Date: 2004-02-03 09:31 am (UTC)And, anyways, just because an aura is palpable doesn't mean one has to palpate it.
always your servant, etc...
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Date: 2004-02-03 09:41 am (UTC)Hey, a Pet and a servant, life is looking up!
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Date: 2004-02-05 09:59 am (UTC)Maybe I could just build my own little shack out on your land and live there? Servant's quarters?
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Date: 2004-02-06 05:22 am (UTC)(actually, we only drool on that catalog, so it just needs a wiping off and it's fine)
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Date: 2004-02-06 01:02 pm (UTC)Dear, you haven't been paying attention.