Bad Garb

[Lady Pica]

Kittywitch

Also, in the bad garb department, I have one word for you...

TUCHUKS.

Gah. Are they really as awful as my shire has been warning me, or did somebody just have a bad experience, do you think?  

[Dragostae]

Swamp Sparrow

Kittywitch

Also, in the bad garb department, I have one word for you...

TUCHUKS.

Gah. Are they really as awful as my shire has been warning me, or did somebody just have a bad experience, do you think?

Or all of the above?  

[lori lollipop]

I was at Gulf Wars, and we stopped to eat, and there were two women at teh end of our table.

Hot pink and rose red corsets and flower head thingys, and acrylic nails that matched their outfits, and they had pink razors and were talking to people on them.

1. So totally NOT PERIOD.
HUH. WHERE CAN YOU GET THOSE COLORS IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY?
2. Cell phones piss me off. D:  

[Lady Rayya]

My definition of "reasonable attempt" must be very different from the garb nazis.... I figure if it passes the 10ft rule, is comfortable enough you won't DIE while wearing it, and you tried t make it look period, there's no worry.

I can;t sew, so any garb I personally make looks like a blind monkey with a staple gun went to town on an unsuspecting piece of cotton.

I am a poor college student. When I graduate I will merely be poor. I buy fabrics that feel natural and look it as well, in colors that are reasonably period. I try not to violate the sanctity of good taste, but if it's hot I'll wear my fake chitons, and death to any garb nazis who would separate me from them.

I am a female, so I don't accept cups from people I don't know. I don't even accept them from people I DO know. I bring my own mug, and beg water off of them. IF that means I carry around a mug on my belt, deal with it. My safety is paramount, and it trumps your delicate sensitivities any day of the week.

Also, there is NOTHING wrong with the Tuchuks. Their garb is pre-period, but they are not exactly SCA. Some Tuchuks only joined so they could fight. As has been said before, they have different rules fr their own Game, their own Dream. They attend War Practice and Pennsic, and individuals may attend other events elsewhere. They match with their own rules.

They are also, by and large, a group with a wonderfully developed sense of honor, graciousness and respect (if you've EARNED it, and the most snobby of SCAdians never do). You have to be willing to listen before you will be heard.  

[Dragostae]

Lady Rayya

My definition of "reasonable attempt" must be very different from the garb nazis.... I figure if it passes the 10ft rule, is comfortable enough you won't DIE while wearing it, and you tried t make it look period, there's no worry.

I can;t sew, so any garb I personally make looks like a blind monkey with a staple gun went to town on an unsuspecting piece of cotton.

I am a poor college student. When I graduate I will merely be poor. I buy fabrics that feel natural and look it as well, in colors that are reasonably period. I try not to violate the sanctity of good taste, but if it's hot I'll wear my fake chitons, and death to any garb nazis who would separate me from them.

I am a female, so I don't accept cups from people I don't know. I don't even accept them from people I DO know. I bring my own mug, and beg water off of them. IF that means I carry around a mug on my belt, deal with it. My safety is paramount, and it trumps your delicate sensitivities any day of the week.

Also, there is NOTHING wrong with the Tuchuks. Their garb is pre-period, but they are not exactly SCA. Some Tuchuks only joined so they could fight. As has been said before, they have different rules fr their own Game, their own Dream. They attend War Practice and Pennsic, and individuals may attend other events elsewhere. They match with their own rules.

They are also, by and large, a group with a wonderfully developed sense of honor, graciousness and respect (if you've EARNED it, and the most snobby of SCAdians never do). You have to be willing to listen before you will be heard.

Amen, Sis. biggrin  

[Berzerker_prime]

Well, actually, as has been pointed out to me several times, the SCA has no official start date for what is period. There's just a date after which most SCAdians choose to concentrate on. There is an end date, but no actual start date.

Sarah T. Foole.  

[Dragostae]

Berzerker_prime

Well, actually, as has been pointed out to me several times, the SCA has no official start date for what is period. There's just a date after which most SCAdians choose to concentrate on. There is an end date, but no actual start date.

Sarah T. Foole.

Which is true. I've even met people who have early Roman (like 3rd century early) personae. Not my cup of tea, but they like it.  

[Dema]

lori lollipop

I was at Gulf Wars, and we stopped to eat, and there were two women at teh end of our table.

Hot pink and rose red corsets and flower head thingys, and acrylic nails that matched their outfits, and they had pink razors and were talking to people on them.

1. So totally NOT PERIOD.
HUH. WHERE CAN YOU GET THOSE COLORS IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY?
2. Cell phones piss me off. D:

*cringe*

There is this one girl I saw at an event here in AnTir in a Fredericks of Hollywood dream corset. It was pale yellow, the neoprene boning was colapsing, and she was pale skinned and VERY red-headed. Didn't go with her complexion/hair at all. Looked completely uncomfortable because of the boning colapsing and the color even on its own 1)not period 2)while not a *bad* color not my first choice of colors in general either.

As for cell phones yeah, the way those girls were using them, completely annoying. I do bring mine in case I need to talk to someone. Like I had a b/f living in a different state for a time and I'd wait til later at night and go off on my own and talk to him for a bit. But I wouldn't be obvious about it. Other than that I only use it to call my ride(if my ride isn't at the event) and thats pretty much it. If we even get cell service at the sites that is.  

[Naito_Mitsukai]

Roetroc

If you require a device to remind you to drink water (or similar) when it's hot, then perhaos you shouldn't be outside. If you were fighting I could udnerstand, but one does not fight whilst wearing a tankard (w I woudl assume) and there are far more period alternatives.

Are you KIDDING me?

I don't heavy fight (yet), and yet - when I went to Clinton in the summer for Clinton wars - it was hot. And if it weren't for my friends who asked me every so often 'have you had water recently?' or simply coming up to me and handing me water- I would have forgotten.

Hell! I forgot to EAT the first 32 hours or so - let alone remembering to drink. I woke up the second day, stomach hurting like mad, and went 'Oh yeah - food helps' because I'd been so busy, and having so much fun - and looking at all the different things, and trying to absorb as much information as I could - YES I forgot to eat.

So don't you tell me that if I need a reminder (in whatever form works best) that I shouldn't be outside. If you really get into the game, you can forget!

So yes - I also support anything that will remind people to drink water during an event!!  

[LittleGreenGirl]

Naito_Mitsukai

Roetroc

If you require a device to remind you to drink water (or similar) when it's hot, then perhaos you shouldn't be outside. If you were fighting I could udnerstand, but one does not fight whilst wearing a tankard (w I woudl assume) and there are far more period alternatives.

Are you KIDDING me?

I don't heavy fight (yet), and yet - when I went to Clinton in the summer for Clinton wars - it was hot. And if it weren't for my friends who asked me every so often 'have you had water recently?' or simply coming up to me and handing me water- I would have forgotten.

Hell! I forgot to EAT the first 32 hours or so - let alone remembering to drink. I woke up the second day, stomach hurting like mad, and went 'Oh yeah - food helps' because I'd been so busy, and having so much fun - and looking at all the different things, and trying to absorb as much information as I could - YES I forgot to eat.

So don't you tell me that if I need a reminder (in whatever form works best) that I shouldn't be outside. If you really get into the game, you can forget!

So yes - I also support anything that will remind people to drink water during an event!!

hear hear! reminders to drink are always good, no matter what. I had to go to the ER at an event due to dehydration one year. Not good! It wasn't stupidity or distractedness either... I simply didn't feel thirsty, so didn't think of it. Only when I was freezing cold huddled around a fire in 80 degree weather and getting delusional did anyone even notice that anything was wrong, and that's wayyyyyy too late. Ever since, I remind everyone! I don't care if you have to strap on a neon pink water bottle to your bodice; if it keeps you from dying, it's good.  

[WolfWoman]

I definitely have to carry water around with me in order to remember to drink it. I have ADD.  

[Dragostae]

Naito_Mitsukai

Roetroc

If you require a device to remind you to drink water (or similar) when it's hot, then perhaos you shouldn't be outside. If you were fighting I could udnerstand, but one does not fight whilst wearing a tankard (w I woudl assume) and there are far more period alternatives.

Are you KIDDING me?

I don't heavy fight (yet), and yet - when I went to Clinton in the summer for Clinton wars - it was hot. And if it weren't for my friends who asked me every so often 'have you had water recently?' or simply coming up to me and handing me water- I would have forgotten.

Hell! I forgot to EAT the first 32 hours or so - let alone remembering to drink. I woke up the second day, stomach hurting like mad, and went 'Oh yeah - food helps' because I'd been so busy, and having so much fun - and looking at all the different things, and trying to absorb as much information as I could - YES I forgot to eat.

So don't you tell me that if I need a reminder (in whatever form works best) that I shouldn't be outside. If you really get into the game, you can forget!

So yes - I also support anything that will remind people to drink water during an event!!

Oh, that's me. I -have- to be reminded to eat (which is why my household is -the- best. They're always asking, "Constantia, have you eaten?" If I answer with "uhhh" or "not sure," I get yelled at to eat something), because, if I don't, either A: I have blood sugar lows, or B: I end up drinking more than planned and end up with a roaringly bad hangover the next day. I'd like to avoid both, thanks.

Sometimes, we get wrapped up in this terrific game that we play, and if we aren't careful, we don't take care of ourselves the way we should. Little mundane reminders can be wonderful things.  

[Lady Pica]

LittleGreenGirl

Naito_Mitsukai

Roetroc

If you require a device to remind you to drink water (or similar) when it's hot, then perhaos you shouldn't be outside. If you were fighting I could udnerstand, but one does not fight whilst wearing a tankard (w I woudl assume) and there are far more period alternatives.

Are you KIDDING me?

I don't heavy fight (yet), and yet - when I went to Clinton in the summer for Clinton wars - it was hot. And if it weren't for my friends who asked me every so often 'have you had water recently?' or simply coming up to me and handing me water- I would have forgotten.

Hell! I forgot to EAT the first 32 hours or so - let alone remembering to drink. I woke up the second day, stomach hurting like mad, and went 'Oh yeah - food helps' because I'd been so busy, and having so much fun - and looking at all the different things, and trying to absorb as much information as I could - YES I forgot to eat.

So don't you tell me that if I need a reminder (in whatever form works best) that I shouldn't be outside. If you really get into the game, you can forget!

So yes - I also support anything that will remind people to drink water during an event!!

hear hear! reminders to drink are always good, no matter what. I had to go to the ER at an event due to dehydration one year. Not good! It wasn't stupidity or distractedness either... I simply didn't feel thirsty, so didn't think of it. Only when I was freezing cold huddled around a fire in 80 degree weather and getting delusional did anyone even notice that anything was wrong, and that's wayyyyyy too late. Ever since, I remind everyone! I don't care if you have to strap on a neon pink water bottle to your bodice; if it keeps you from dying, it's good.

I agree. My problem isn't forgetting to drink- it's getting ENOUGH to drink. I ususally end up going through a liter of water every two hours or so. If I don't, I feel awful. If people decide I shouldn't have a 'non-period' drinking device on me, and want to voice that opinion, I'll take that as volunteering to be my personal water-bearer, especially if I'm fighting.  

[Kittywitch]

First, I want to say that I personally won't attack you in the street if you are carrying around a plastic water bottle.
But glass bottles in leather straps, leather bodas and the like aren't that hard to come by at any event with more than two merchants. People in the middle ages had to remember to drink enough, too; so why not see what interesting ways they did? Isn't that what the society's all about? I'm not saying it's bad garb not to have these things, I'm saying it's more fun if you do.

Obviously, this doesn't apply to fighters, when fighting. If you have a leather boda you want to take into the woods battle, it probably isn't big enough to get you half of what you'll need, but take it by all means. You're the only one who can say whether or not it will get in the way while you're fighting. But you should still drink more than that anyway. Waterbearers are there for a reason.  

[Berzerker_prime]

Dragostae

Naito_Mitsukai

Roetroc

If you require a device to remind you to drink water (or similar) when it's hot, then perhaos you shouldn't be outside. If you were fighting I could udnerstand, but one does not fight whilst wearing a tankard (w I woudl assume) and there are far more period alternatives.

Are you KIDDING me?

I don't heavy fight (yet), and yet - when I went to Clinton in the summer for Clinton wars - it was hot. And if it weren't for my friends who asked me every so often 'have you had water recently?' or simply coming up to me and handing me water- I would have forgotten.

Hell! I forgot to EAT the first 32 hours or so - let alone remembering to drink. I woke up the second day, stomach hurting like mad, and went 'Oh yeah - food helps' because I'd been so busy, and having so much fun - and looking at all the different things, and trying to absorb as much information as I could - YES I forgot to eat.

So don't you tell me that if I need a reminder (in whatever form works best) that I shouldn't be outside. If you really get into the game, you can forget!

So yes - I also support anything that will remind people to drink water during an event!!

Oh, that's me. I -have- to be reminded to eat (which is why my household is -the- best. They're always asking, "Constantia, have you eaten?" If I answer with "uhhh" or "not sure," I get yelled at to eat something), because, if I don't, either A: I have blood sugar lows, or B: I end up drinking more than planned and end up with a roaringly bad hangover the next day. I'd like to avoid both, thanks.

Sometimes, we get wrapped up in this terrific game that we play, and if we aren't careful, we don't take care of ourselves the way we should. Little mundane reminders can be wonderful things.

LOL! I know that situation well! My whole household is like that. We spend more time looking after each other than after ourselves. We have a running joke that new household members should be given a book entitled "Care and Feeding of Your Greyfeathres." rolleyes

Sarah T. Foole.