Hi! I am not officially an SCA member, but I seem to spend quite a lot of time in their companies anyway, and I love period costume (and re-enactment in general.)
1. If you have a persona or other reenactment focus, what period and place is that?
12th-15th century English Midlands, as a sort of peasant/freewoman. Though I am of the opinion that since present-day me dresses in a mish-mash of styles old, new, and nonexistent, in a merry disregard for fashion, my re-enactment persona ought to be allowed to do the same!
(Actually, I went to Pennsic last summer, wore outfits I pulled out of my everyday casual wardrobe, and got compliments on my garb at least once a day. One cannot overestimate the value of a) proper headcovering, and b) outfits that are as worn as if they're everyday wear rather than costumes.)
Also, right now, I am doing a Tudor men's court outfit for an SCA wedding I'm going to be in. Crossplay=win, and so are crossdressing Shakespearean heroines. (I am hoping to be able to mix and match things like the doublet and the shirt to get most of a women's Tudor outfit out of it, too.)
2. What is/are your favorite periods/places for clothing?
I cannot pick a favorite! I like all of the SCA period! But in general, I'm more interested in what the commoners and bourgeousie are wearing than in noblewomen, which tends to be harder to source to specific times and locations anyway. And I tend to stick to Northern/Western Europe because I am neurotic about appropriation issues.
3. What period/place would you like to learn more about for clothing?
If I did set up a proper SCA persona, I would love to do an English nun from the High Middle Ages, of the not-terribly-pious sort who went to the Church in order to have a career rather than to be a religious servant, and do a completely accurate habit right down to the underclothes - one thing I really noticed at Pennsic was the extreme shortage of people in religious personae - but I would be starting the research pretty much from scratch.
I've also been collecting scraps for some time about middle-class 16th century Protestant German costumery. And in the "pie in the sky" department, I would love to be able to take an authentic 13th century Cahokian persona to SCA events - you know, actually play a local - but there is *so* little easily available research about North America in that period, and doing it badly would be far worse than doing it not at all.
4. Are there any post-1600 areas of dress you're interested in as well?
Early American colonial - 17th and very early 18th century, especially in the mid-Atlantic colonies. Also pre-Raphaelite, Artistic, and Reform dress in the late 19th century, leading to early 20th century fashion in general, though I lose interest shortly after Utility fashion in the 1940's (when hemlines start to creep ever closer to - gasp! - the knees.)
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Date: 2010-04-07 02:14 am (UTC)1. If you have a persona or other reenactment focus, what period and place is that?
12th-15th century English Midlands, as a sort of peasant/freewoman. Though I am of the opinion that since present-day me dresses in a mish-mash of styles old, new, and nonexistent, in a merry disregard for fashion, my re-enactment persona ought to be allowed to do the same!
(Actually, I went to Pennsic last summer, wore outfits I pulled out of my everyday casual wardrobe, and got compliments on my garb at least once a day. One cannot overestimate the value of a) proper headcovering, and b) outfits that are as worn as if they're everyday wear rather than costumes.)
Also, right now, I am doing a Tudor men's court outfit for an SCA wedding I'm going to be in. Crossplay=win, and so are crossdressing Shakespearean heroines. (I am hoping to be able to mix and match things like the doublet and the shirt to get most of a women's Tudor outfit out of it, too.)
2. What is/are your favorite periods/places for clothing?
I cannot pick a favorite! I like all of the SCA period! But in general, I'm more interested in what the commoners and bourgeousie are wearing than in noblewomen, which tends to be harder to source to specific times and locations anyway. And I tend to stick to Northern/Western Europe because I am neurotic about appropriation issues.
3. What period/place would you like to learn more about for clothing?
If I did set up a proper SCA persona, I would love to do an English nun from the High Middle Ages, of the not-terribly-pious sort who went to the Church in order to have a career rather than to be a religious servant, and do a completely accurate habit right down to the underclothes - one thing I really noticed at Pennsic was the extreme shortage of people in religious personae - but I would be starting the research pretty much from scratch.
I've also been collecting scraps for some time about middle-class 16th century Protestant German costumery. And in the "pie in the sky" department, I would love to be able to take an authentic 13th century Cahokian persona to SCA events - you know, actually play a local - but there is *so* little easily available research about North America in that period, and doing it badly would be far worse than doing it not at all.
4. Are there any post-1600 areas of dress you're interested in as well?
Early American colonial - 17th and very early 18th century, especially in the mid-Atlantic colonies. Also pre-Raphaelite, Artistic, and Reform dress in the late 19th century, leading to early 20th century fashion in general, though I lose interest shortly after Utility fashion in the 1940's (when hemlines start to creep ever closer to - gasp! - the knees.)