Weekend Plans

[U4ea]

I am going to the Crown Tournament this year!!

[_Kynwric_]

Kingdom Arts & Sciences and Spring Crown List... Gotta little tournament to fight in.

[LadyWordsmith]

Shockingly I have very few plans for this weekend. Though one of them will hopefully be 'shopping for my mom for our upcoming California trip.' She's been making me try clothes on my whole life. This could be fun.  

[Ryrin]

I have a wedding to attend this Saturday.

[Ryrin]

Wedding is tomorrow! I have three days off. I plan to clean out kitchen shelves this weekend and maybe go to a movie on Monday.

[Ryrin]

My plan is to put up some raising threads tomorrow!

[LadyWordsmith]

Yay for raisings!

 

Tomorrow is our monthly sewing guild, and I am going to start working on my new selection of early Tudor gowns to fill my closet! 

[Wren of the Brown]

Went to my kid sister's grad bbq and then traveled up north to see an old friend. All in all, I'd say the weekend was a success.

 

But I may be looking for a new apartment soon. Having roommates is not covered in my instruction manual.

[Ryrin]

How many roommates do you have?

[Wren of the Brown]

Ugh. Just me and another but she goes through boys like they're in short supply and the factory is all boarded up. She has horrible taste in people and I wouldn't freely associate with her guests.

 

So, um, yeah.

[Ryrin]

Get out.

[Wren of the Brown]

That's the plan. It became very clear this weekend.

[U4ea]

I'm debating Tudor, myself, Lady! Can't decide if I want to commit all the way to that one or not. Haha

 

Today was my last day of post planning, so my weekend will consist of fighter practice and maybe some essential oil discussion. That's about it. :-)

[_Kynwric_]

Mmm... Tudor in GA, in the summer...

[U4ea]

Tudor in the Fall and Spring, I'm thinking. Summer might just be Roman or Greek! HAHAHA

[Ryrin]

That's the part I'm not really clear on as far as the SCA.

[Wren of the Brown]

Straw hats, shade and water are your best friends at summer SCA events.

 

Also, pickles, Gatorade, gorp and Tiger Balm for fighters.

[U4ea]

Which part, Ryrin? The changing of styles? You can wear what you want! That's my favorite part! I can be Tudor or Caesarian Roman, whichever I wish, even though my persona is Celtic/English married to a Welshman! ha!

[LadyWordsmith]

My persona is War of the Roses into 'early' Tudor (as we have aged since I started college and I think the earlier Tudor stuff is lovely. ;) ). I'm also making most of of my Tudor out of lighter fabrics (sticking with linens and such) instead of going for 'heavy' brocades. Ansteorran summers are miserable for the full multi-layer clothing of the period (which had much cooler weather than we do). 

 

I do also have a fair number of 'slightly earlier century' sideless surcoats and under-dresses for dealing with the heat and all the kitchen work/waterbearing and other work I do where "fancy" would be a detriment. 

 

Conveniently, my husband has the same time period I do! (Though his persona is English, and mine Scots). I did not know anything about that when I chose my period and persona (we had not met more than twice at the time). 

 

It's nice to be able to play mix-and-match as well. And come up with stories to fit it! "Oh, I happen to know a Russian merchant who travelled all the way to Japan once." 

[Ryrin]

Which part, Ryrin? The changing of styles? You can wear what you want! That's my favorite part! I can be Tudor or Caesarian Roman, whichever I wish, even though my persona is Celtic/English married to a Welshman! ha!

How do you choose those?

 

I saw some Roman guys at my first event.

[_Kynwric_]

Tudor in the Winter, since we have no Fall or Spring here... Greek or Roman in the summer is perfectly acceptable... Except! None of those are the one, true century...

[LadyWordsmith]

Ryrin, you can choose based on your own personal interests. There are many ways to choose the period of your persona. Some choose based on a pre-existing interest, others by learning about them and then deciding which one they are most interested in doing/portraying/learning more about. There are, of course, a goodly number that have chosen based on 'oh I really want to wear THAT!' 

 

Generally your choice of costume is tied in to the persona you choose (matching name) though as there is no rule that you 'have' to do so, there is of course more flexibility. Such as you've seen the many folks who may wear a different period in the winter because it's warm, and another in the summer because it's far more comfortable. That's the joy of being a re-creation group instead of extremely strict reinactment.  

 

As an example, I choose to wear styles within about a century of my persona's life (oh, this old thing? Belonged to my grandmother... ;) ), and within cultures she would have gotten clothing from. Conveniently, portraying Scots, the court clothing was often whatever was fashionable in England or France. And as I have married an Englishman (my husband's persona) it is easy for me to wear the clothing of the period of my persona, which began in the War of the Roses and (as we have chosen) ages slowly into the reign of Henry VII. 

 

I chose Scotland because well, I've always loved Scotland, (and really, most of my life I was pretty much Merida from Brave minus the noble birth). It fit my personality quirks well and doesn't require corseting or crazy head-pieces. 

 

The fun of it is that you do not 'have' to be completely consistent. After all I have a friend who is a 1000's Englishwoman, married to a 1300's Viking. She tends to wear Viking clothing because it's comfortable. I also have a few viking style tunics that I wear in the winter because they're very warm. 

 

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On the theme of this is still the 'weekend plans' thread...my weekend plan involves Gaming with friends.   

[Wren of the Brown]

When I first started playing with the SCA, I wanted to portray an Iron Age Celt, partly because I was exploring the mythology but mostly convenience - early period garb is incredibly simple to make. A year later, I was wearing a great kilt and exploring Scottish history. Why? Family history stuff.

 

When I came back, I started exploring the Byzantines, traveled north via the Varangian guard, went west and portrayed an early Anglo-Saxon and I'm now somewhere in 14th century Finland. Your persona's career will transform and migrate through regions and eras.

 

Heck, our Shire is hosting a fencing college this month and our Seneschal asked me and another guy if we would be tavern wenches at feast. So, that's happening.

 

My first year in the SCA was a little confusing but I figured it out by observing, asking questions and taking chances and getting messy. We have a sense of medieval pageantry that we wish to explore through these various avenues of craft, art and martial prowess. However you decide to express that sense (The Dream, as it's called) is totally up to you, Ry.

 

And if that means wenching at an event to help out our fencers, then so be it.

[Wren of the Brown]

We should start a separate thread for SCA talk. Garb, questions, bling, research - anything and everything!

[Ryrin]

Lunch out. Eighty minute deep tissue massage.