[Ansteorra] First SCA clothes (was: maybe an answer to recruitment problems)

Fri Jan 20 14:27:18 PST 2012

When a friend introduced me to the SCA he knew that I had been doing
theater and costuming for a while. He told me to be sure I brought some of
my best stuff and to make a splash. So I packed up my tent and wardrobe and
headed out. I showed up around 4:30 on a Saturday evening, not knowing the
event would be over in the morning, asked around where checkin was for new
people and was greeted by a nice fellow in the main hall. I told him that I
was new and could not find my friend who had recommended me so I was a
little lost. He took my camp fee, set me up for the feast and told me to
come back and he would find some loaner feast gear for me.
  I ran back to my tent and hurriedly laced into my most recent Tudor
creation and rushed back to the hall. The fellow did not recognize me! I
told him I was back for the loaner gear for the feast?? He looked me up and
down and said, "Newbie? Yeah, right! Dressed like that?!" I thought there
was something wrong with it, ended up it was something too right. He
thought I was fibbing to get a newbie rate. Ended up some ladies who had
been to the Renaissance Fair and saw me walking around recognized my garb
and we became fast friends.

Those were the days....
 Lady Augustina Elizabetta da San Germano
 aka tina

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:11 PM, HerrDetlef <herrdetlef at gmail.com> wrote:

> During Senior Week in 1986, I showed up at school on Costume Day dressed
> like the Pope. White cassock and stole, the zuchetta...the works. Fast
> forward to my first SCA experiences. I wore my Pope costume to a fighter
> practice and a newcomer's revel in 1987. For my first weekend event (Quest
> for the Clover), my mom made me a tunic out of a solid brown bed sheet. I
> don't remember what I used for a belt, if anything, and shoes were probably
> my grey and blue track shoes. I wore that tunic to one more event, and then
> I had a black monk's habit by my third event (the Crown Tourney in Raven's
> Fort when Hector won). I got some good use out of that habit for about a
> year, before I stopped being Brother Linus and moved on to more
> secular-looking stuff. I still have the habit, but I haven't worn it in
> years. It's a bit of a museum piece to me now. I don't know what happened
> to the brown tunic. Or the Pope costume, either.
>
> Outside of the Pope costume, I don't remember anybody in the SCA looking at
> me funny in those days.
>
> Detlef
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Janice Dean Simpson <
> janicedean88 at yahoo.com
> > wrote:
>
> > My first event was a coronation in the Middle Kingdom.  Their 40th!!!!!
> > I met Count Owen (Prince at the time), got a HUGE hug from him just
> before
> > the coronation and honestly been in love with him ever since.
> > Anyway:  clothes:
> > The clothing was borrowed, a yellow and mauve dress from the early 13th
> > century, English I believe.
> > The young lady was happy to assist me, since she was informed I had never
> > been to any SCA events.    I had never met this lovely lady, and yet one
> > phone call from my boyfriend had her with 2 dresses to pick from.  She
> > brought them to coronation, helped me dress and offered wonderful words
> on
> > the SCA.
> > I have since learned that the dress I wore is the most common one loaned
> > from her.  And, it is well made, and beautiful.
> > I now make my own, and loan out my stuff as much as possible.
> >
> > Ghilean Inion au Johnny
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >  From: Donna Nesbit <themaefare at yahoo.com>
> > To: Inc.Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 7:11 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] First SCA clothes (was: maybe an answer to
> > recruitment problems)
> >
> > My first event was Torre's 12th night.  I wore a red cotton/poly "granny"
> > gown and brought melemane feast gear.  I had many laughing "compliments."
> > The people were very gracious about it, so I ended up staying-- for 20
> > years.
> >
> > Penelope
> >
> > --- On Tue, 1/17/12, Chris Zakes <dontivar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > From: Chris Zakes <dontivar at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [Ansteorra] First SCA clothes (was: maybe an answer to
> > recruitment problems)
> > To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
> > Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2012, 6:20 PM
> >
> >
> > At 05:26 PM 1/17/2012, you wrote:
> >
> > > My first event garb was the Vulcan priest's robe from 'The Search for
> > Spock' film.  I got a few compliments and a friend said it looked
> familiar
> > but he couldn't place it.  I figured 3rd century, 23rd century, as long
> as
> > it didn't look 20th century.
> > >
> > > That was in 1987.  My garb has improved a bit since then.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > HL Caitlin
> >
> >
> > I'm reminded of a story someone told in a previous incarnation of this
> > discussion. She was very new, but had a copy of the "Known World
> Handbook".
> > One of the suggestions for first-timer clothes was making a T-tunic out
> of
> > an old bedsheet. So she did. Unfortunately, the KWH article *didn't*
> > specify it should be a solid color, so she showed up to her first event
> in
> > a T-tunic with Snoopy all over it.
> >
> > My first outfit was some black sweatpants and a red v-necked long sleeved
> > woman's blouse, which I was using for choreographed duels with a fellow
> > student at Rice University before I'd ever heardof the SCA.
> >
> >         -Tivar Moondragon
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