[Ansteorra] Largesse gifting

[Joseph Percer]

Because the Carpet armor and the freon can helmets were SAFETY problems.
A wench bodice, in the proper hands, is by no means unsafe...

Andrewe

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Bree Flowers <evethejust at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Robert G. Ferrell <rgferrell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2/4/2011 9:59 AM, Bree Flowers wrote:
>>
>>>  Why not have a collection of stuff
>>> in your stash that they'd like?
>>
>> Because that makes you an enabler.  An accessory to the crime, as it
>> were.  We can't 'legislate' people to stop wearing wench bodices, but we
>> can give them a viable alternative and show them that wearing more
>> appropriate clothing is also fun.
>>
>> Cynric
>
> Yes, but what is worse, giving them something they'll love that is
> wildly out of period, but still seems to be accepted in the society,
> or something beautiful and accurate that will just sit on their shelf
> unloved for years? As an artist, nothing would make me more sad than
> something I have spent hours crafting never seeing the light of day.
> As long as we allow people to wear the wildly out of period stuff, we
> have to accept that some people will continue to do so even after
> being shown that the "good stuff" is better. I can point to a number
> of people who have been in the society for years (not necessarily
> here) that still dress like they're on the cover of a romance novel,
> or in a pre-raphaelite painting, or part of the cast of a hollywood
> movie. If we give them this option, we can't really get upset at them
> for choosing it. I just can't see how giving them gifts they won't use
> is doing them any favors.
>
> Incidentally, I don't see why we can't legislate people to stop
> wearing wench bodices. We stopped carpet armour and freon can helmets
> and there are rules coming into effect against hockey-glove-gauntlets
> in many Kingdoms. I'm not saying that we SHOULD do it, I'm just saying
> we CAN. (caps for emphasis, not yelling)
>
> ~Eve
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Joseph M. Percer, AAS, LP