[Sca-cooks] Mongol garb & stuff

[Elaine Koogler]

Puppy and his Silver Horde camp next door to us at Pennsic.  While I cannot
guarantee that what he sells is really period or not, I do know that he is
quite serious about trying to be as authentic as possible and does a fair
amount of research to that end.  In fact, one of his 'brothers' pretty much
took up residence under my dayshade last Pennsic when he discovered that I
had a copy of "Soup"!!

Kiri
----- Original Message ----- > > Of course, I didn't say Puppy was selling
traditional items as
> period, I just know he sells traditional items, and they may or may
> not have changed over the last 500, or however many years. But I
> wasn't accusing anybody of irresponsible merchanting or even
> irresponsible research, so much as just saying I didn't know how much
> research he has done. And we have plenty of people selling all kinds
> of non-period traditional doodads: he is certainly no worse than the
> people that sell folding Opinel jackknives for feast gear (lovely
> utility knives, BTW: 25 million Frenchmen can't be wrong!).
>
> My suspicion is that things probably _have_ changed in Mongolian
> traditional clothing over the past 500 years, but that the untrained
> eye might not notice some of the changes. My lady wife has been doing
> Mongolian for quite a while, too (~17 years), and she seems to have
> spotted some differences, but, again, the differences probably aren't
> glaring except to another Mongol ;-).
>
> Adamantius