On Jun 9, 2010, at 6:52 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: > Well, this was a Robin Hood themed fair, (and the local fair was none to > accurate on footwear.
Footwear is hard, as are glasses. Also things vary a lot from faire to faire. The direct descendants of the original Ren Faire tend to be a lot stricter on cast costumes than the "small faires". > The general time period portrayed would then be Medieval, the King was > Richard the Lionheart (~1200 AD), though there was plenty of anachronism to > go around.with actors in Late Medieval early renasance armor and a company of > Renascence Landsknechts, parading about. All in all about as confused about > era as you'd expect an SCA group to be. You don't have to explain the SCA to > me, I used to hang out with people who were members, I even managed to talk > other people into joining, never did myself. Too silly especially when you > consider that it was allowable to create a character from the Planet Gor, you > might as well allow characters from thePolysotechnic leage\ or the Terran > Empire. I don't know which SCA you hung out with, but the one I was a member of didn't allow personas from anything but medieval Europe, on Earth. Sure there were people who fudged and pretended that they had returned from Asia with Marco Polo and some such. Occasionally, folks would slip under the radar, especially as newbies. Then again, I've hung out at Marion Zimmer Bradley's (where the first event was) and people may be a bit more of sticklers "in the land where time began". :) But that's all just pedantic quibbling. The point of Ren Faire's, and the SCA is far more about recreation, than re-creation. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
