[Herbalist] FW: Miss Manners vs. the Authenticity Police

[Katherine Blackthorne]

I loved it!

I once went (in garg) to visit a friend who was working Ren Faire.  While
visiting with her, I received many compliments from her guild on my garb.
Finally, I was asked to work the next day.  (Sunday.)

Since I wanted to spend more time with my friend, I said yes.

They then stood there & picked apart the garb they had just finished gushing
over, telling me (among other things) that the tie on my bodice wouldn't do,
that I needed to by "period" leather shoes.  That the (coarse linnen)
partlet I was wearing was "above my station"  (it wasn't), the cut of my
bodice was wrong, and the list went on.

Needless to say, I didn't bother going back to them!

--Katherine

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>Subject: [Herbalist] FW: Miss Manners vs. the Authenticity Police
>Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:27:38 -0400
>
>Some interesting advice from Miss Manners!
>Christianna
>
>
> >> From the Style section from last Wednesday's
> >> Washington Post (09/12/2001):
> >>
> >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14222-2001Sep11.html
> >>
> >> The link takes you to Miss Manners' weekly column where a concerned
>reader
> >> asks for advice on how to deal with "an etiquette problem common in
> >> historic-reenactment/living-history groups, for any given historic era:
> >> people who are popularly known as 'authenticity police.' "
>
>
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