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

[Elaine Koogler]

Yeah, I caught the same grief at one of my early events over an obi (sash) I had
made out of unbleached muslin...not from this person, but the woman who was the
Principality Herald at the time.

Kiri

"Dunbar, Debra" wrote:

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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
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