If I do Civil War reenacting, I suspect I'll stick to a "girl who ran off to join the army disguised as a boy" persona, since I'm not that into hoopskirts. But for Revolutionary War and Peninsular/1812, I'll need a male identity to play with the guns and a girly one to play with the pretty clothes.
I'll say this as delicately and euphemistically as possible... if you want your husband to treat your fastball like Albert Pujols and not like Willie Bloomquist, you should probably look into period dresses. Because girls dressed as boys to join the army do not make the husband think of rye bread and mustard.
ETR hoop skirts, since JZ's spicy brains have come through yet again.
The Buffista sixpence is no more.
What happened?
But the love is still there!
Of course it is. The good thoughts attached to it are what gave it its power.
Hey, our anniversaries are 4 days apart. I knew we picked an excellent month in which to get married.
If I do Civil War reenacting, I suspect I'll stick to a "girl who ran off to join the army disguised as a boy" persona, since I'm not that into hoopskirts. But for Revolutionary War and Peninsular/1812, I'll need a male identity to play with the guns and a girly one to play with the pretty clothes.
Something else I like with this group is the freedom to be a fighter or a craftsperson, or both. And in our period, the men mostly wear "skirts" too (well, a laine - no idea how to spell - pronounced len-yuh), which I get a kick out of.
it mysteriously disappeared en route to me. I blame the postal service!
I knew we picked an excellent month in which to get married.
I know several people who got married in October I just went to a wedding last weekend, my sister's anniversary is the 10th, you, me... October rocks!!!
Thankfully no hoopskirts in 1582.
Oh, there were, but only for the middle class and nobles. They were called, IIRC, farthingales. They disappeared sometime after the Renaissance and didn't return until sometime in Victoria's reign, when a number of middle and upper class women were keeling over and fainting from the weight of all their petticoats, even in cold and drafty England and Scotland, and some brilliant fashionistas said "Dear me, there has simply got to be a better way," started ransacking previous giant-skirt eras, and appropriated/updated the farthingale.
t /costume geek
Can I just say how much I love JZ?
Cool, JZ.
t /history geek
P.S. Do
you
know how to spell "len-yuh"?
I'm planning to take up reenacting as soon as I can afford to do so
I don't really want to reenact anything, but I'd give my right arm to have some period Victorian dresses to wear everyday. And a lot of the gorgeous Edwardian stuff, too.
When we get back to Michigan, I'm gonna do the Civil War reenactments, too. But mostly cause I like the dressing up part.
Yay!!!!!!!!! Let me know when you're ready, and I'd love to hook up with you at an event.
Also, these are the people who make my clothes. They are VERY good. This is my current favorite dress.
I love Civil Waring...mostly for the dressing up part, but also the history. It was the beginning of the women's rights movement, too (well, late 1840's on). Very exciting.
