[Sca-cooks] Sweat shirts and sweat pants are an important addition to your wardrobe

[David Walddon]

Totally think your idea is the most appropriate and I have (for myself) lots
of layered garments that are entirely appropriate to the period I do.
The problem is that here in AnTir it could be sunny and 90 when you head out
and be 50 and wet that evening. Emergency seat pants are critical!

Eduardo 

On 8/30/09 6:13 AM, "bronwynmgn at aol.com" <bronwynmgn at aol.com> wrote:

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> From: David Walddon <david at vastrepast.com>
> To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:04 pm
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Sweat shirts and sweat pants are an important addition to
> your wardrobe
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> I always have a pair of sweats for each family member in the garb box. They
> are critical (under long tunics or scholars robes) when the weather turns
> cold and rainy up here in An Tir (and it can turn quickly).
> Obviously not so you can tell we are wearing them but they do help keep
> things warm in a pinch.
> If we are going to an event that we know is going to be cold we bring the
> appropriate garb but for those emergency situations I have found them to be
> excellent (especially with a 4 and 6 year old).>>
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> I am not saying that your approach isn't valid.  It keeps you warm and that's
> the point.  But I used to work under the theory that adding mundane clothes
> under garb, or following mundane rules of adding warmer layers under garb, and
> I was often still cold.  Then I asked myself what a medieval person would have
> done - after all, they had to cope with weather on a daily basis, much more
> intimately than do we who live in climate-controlled buildings and leave them
> to travel in climate-controlled cars.
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> I started making wool overgowns to go over my lighter weight clothes.  Heavy
> wool repels water beautifully with no special treatment.  If it does get wet,
> it still keeps you warm.  Wool socks are a godsend when your feet are wet; you
> feel the initial rush of cold water but within a moment or two, it is hard to
> tell if your feet are still wet because they are warm again.  I have a coat
> weight gown and hood that I have worn in pouring rain for prolonged times with
> no other shelter.  When I took the wool gown and hood off, my linen clothes
> underneath were completely dry.  The only thing you must do is make sure never
> to leave those wool outer garments lying in a pile on the floor.  Then they
> will soak through.  If the wool is kept hanging when it is taken off, then the
> water will continue to do what it does when you are wearing it - run down the
> outer layers of the wool and drip off the bottom.
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> A lighter weight wool gown over your linen is also good when it's damp and
> cool but not raining; it prevents the linen from soaking up moisture from the
> air and feeling soggy.
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> Yes, wool is somewhat expensive.  You know what, so is a parka or heavy winter
> coat.  You buy one, once, and wear it for years in comfort.  I do find the
> gowns more useful than cloaks for anything other than short showers.  You
> can't really DO anything in a cloak; you just have to stay still and hold it
> closed.  In the gowns I can run around and do anything I'd do in my normal
> clothes.
> They serve as extra warmth when events turn unexpectedly cold as well.  I
> haven't been cold at a wet or cold event since I started doing this.
> 
> Brangwayna Morgan
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> Shire of Silver Rylle, East Kingdom
> 
> Lancaster, PA
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