[Sca-cooks] Authenticity Police: since we're castigating extremists anyw...

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In a message dated 9/18/2001 10:22:00 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
moonwoman at btconnect.com writes:


>     I had this problem when I first started in the SCA.  One instance I was
> wearing a dress I had made following a pattern from Period Patterns in an
> Italian Renn fashion... a woman walked up grabbed my bust and said "This
> doesn't support you right".  I was flabbergasted not to mention more than a
> little unsettled to have some strange woman mauling me. *chuckles*
> Thankfully someone came to my rescue before I decked her.
>

I don't know if I would have lasted long enough for someone to rescue me. :->

My experience was merely to have someone rudely tell me that a woman wearing
pants wasn't period.  I politely replied that as a conquest era Magyar I was
a nomad and it was perfectly appropriate.  They left very quickly.

It really is a matter of people being rude.  There are also many people who
only feel better if they can be superior to someone.  My thought has always
been that even if you are sure that something isn't period you should adopt a
gentle approach.  It really boils down to what Mom always said "If you can't
say something nice, don't say anything at all."

Noemi