[Ansteorra] Personna play
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Sat Jan 26 23:06:26 PST 2008
On Jan 27, 2008, at 12:25 AM, Sher M wrote:
> My understanding of history is that items that were costly were
> basically
> passed down to the next in line. They may have been remade
> (clothing) or
> simply made to fit that particular person. Armor, swords, etc were
> passed
> down the male line again because they were costly items.
Yes, and there was a thriving business in used clothes. And clothes
were reworked as fashion changed. But clothes only last so long. So
while this will work for clothes for a few generations it doesn't
give you a ready excuse for wearing clothes mixed over several
centuries.
> So the way people learned of new 'fashions' was when they attended
> court of
> some type and saw what the nobles surrounding the King, Queen, Prince,
> Princess, Duke, etc wore. Then the 'cloth' was remade into more
> fashionable
> clothing. Sort of a waste not, want not.
>
> Runa of the Thundering Herd
For commentary from a number of different points of view, see these
files in the PERSONA section of the Florilegium:
Barbrn-Persona-art (9K) 2/18/05 "Barbarian Personae" by Baron Hrolf
Herjolfssen.
Persona-CMA-art (13K) 2/18/05 "Persona in the Current Middle
Ages -
Guidelines to persona play"
by Mistress Willow de Wisp.
persona-msg (77K) 12/ 8/00 Persona development. Ideas of
Persona.
Persona-Play-art (14K) 1/ 3/07 "Persona Play: A Suggestion for
the Dream"
by THL Caitlin Christiana
Wintour.
persona-art (14K) 11/12/96 An article on persona by Duke
Cariadoc.
Persona-Build-art (14K) 2/24/99 "Building A Persona"
by Pamela Hewitt, the Harper.
Som-Per-Ideas-art (16K) 12/31/02 "Some Persona Ideas" by by HL
Elaine de
Montgris (known as 'Lainie).
Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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