[Sca-cooks] Authenticity Police: since we're castigating extr emists anyway.. .

[Dunbar, Debra]

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> The most offensive behavior along these lines I've ever seen, though, was
> at
> an event in Northern Virginia where someone took it on herself to give a
> guest of mine a hard time about the unbleached rope belt he was wearing
> with
> his perfectly authentic monk's robe.  She asserted that, standing there in
> a
> monk's robe and sandals and a rope belt, he was pretending to be a member
> of
> the chivalry.  She refused to let the topic go, and was so offensive that
> he
> hasn't been back since.  But that's not "authenticity police", that's ...
> I'm not quite sure what that is, besides bad manners to a guest.
>
> Caitlin Cheannlaidir, OL (but not for costuming...<G>)
>
	 Wow!  I think I met this woman also!  About 8 or so years ago at my
very first event in Bright Hills a woman insisted that I was wearing a
"knight's belt".  It was one of those cream colored silky drapery cords that
you buy at Joanne's by the yard.  Lord Adam of Erin was kind enough to tell
her that it was a "rope" and that this was my first event and she should
"cut me some slack".

	Wrynne