Dress at meetings
Steve Muhlberger
STEVEM at EINSTEIN.UNIPISSING.CA
Sat Feb 17 12:32:00 PST 1996
Just another foreigner chiming in.
In all the groups I have been active in over the years, there has been a
distinction between a meeting and an event. At meetings, lots of things were
discussed and done that would seem out of place at a tournament, feast, or
revel. (Even discussing the Middle Ages as they actually were, from an
outsider's perspective, is a very OOP activity at an event!)
However, I have been in groups that were pretty isolated, in which most of
the newer members had little opportunity to go to a real event (and the group
was yet to small to sponser many events). In one of these, we did have
meetings once a month or so where people did dress medievally, were in
persona, and did something both educational and "in period" (discussing the
Courtier a la Castiglione). (In that group the organizational
meetings/workshops/etc. were weekly).
One problem with such things popped up in my vicinity. A local group had one
of these intermediate type events in a university complex that included
their usual winter fighting practice site, meeting room, etc. After a day of
low key activities, they adjourned to the student pub in the same complex to
eat, drink, and continue on. Since it was Sunday, the place was otherwise
deserted. However, there were things like TVs present, and when the TV was
turned on by someone, it revealed a basic disagreement as to how formal an
"event" this was supposed to be.
Finnvarr de Taahe
Principality of Ealdormere
Middle Kingdom
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