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compiled by Lady Nastasiia Ivanova Medvedeva
How about the myth that SCA singers can't wear corsets because it will impede their breathing so they won't be able to breath? I'd like to have that myth pounded into the ground. Every time I make a properly fitted corset for one of my acquaintances that sing in the SCA I have to overcome this "Oh, I can't wear anything so constricting because then I can't sing!" Never mind that the costumes they chose make them look dowdy without their bosoms being supported (much less their pear shaped tones! Regina Romsey And...of course...pink isn't period.... Jessamyn It's amazing how widespread the same myths are. Merouda Jonica Hogan wrote: I still don't understand this one but someone told me that "all garb should be sewn so that no stiches are showing" Maybe it is just me because I learned to sew on my own but how can you? Cynthia du Pré Argent replied: Maybe they meant "no machine stitching showing?" That would make more sense. I've seen some garb recently that made liberal use of wide satin stitch at the edges -- screamed modern to me more than tennis shoes do, since it was around the neck, where you couldn't avoid seeing it. Since you mentioned buttons, my second favorite myth is "they didn't have buckles -- they used these large rings for belt fastenings." And what about the other side of the coin, the myths about things "someone" says you *can* wear, which are not quite right: Drea OK how about the "myth" that you can't go out of your encampment at Pennsic unless your garb is ENTIRELY hand-sewn. OR At your first SCA event you wear a big blue feather to announce that you are a "newby" OR At your first event you have to know & understand EVERY SINGLE RULE (written and un-) !!!! Thankfully I only had to deal with the last one, and I told that person that if that was the way the SCA was played then what were they doing here!! I thought the perfectionists convention was down the road. Katheryne OR how about the one: You can't wear a circlet in the Kingdom of Aethelmaerc unless you are a "Lady". And if it is metal you have had your AoA for over a year! (ROYAL RASPBERRY!!!!) Katheryne Always be suspicious of the "rules" that begin with "They never" and "They always". Other than obvious modernities like Indiglo wristwatches and shiny Lycra-nylon, etc, "always" and "never" don't really apply. A sumptuary law from Florence wouldn't have meant squat in Venice, a fashion in London might have been laughed out of Cordoba, and there would have been a few nonconformists then as now - the difference being that the "penalties" might have been a bit harsher ("Wearing your brother's trousers again, Joan? Okay, that's it, off to the stake.....") And the passage of sumptuary laws everywhere were a pretty good indication that folks were breaking them and would continue to do so.... Liadain And of course let us not forget the "Only Royals Can Wear Purple" with which so many newcomers have been intimidated...... Liadain Got to put my two cents in. Corsets don't stop you from singing. They also don't stop me from playing sacbutt (trombone) in my tightly laced late Italian corset. And, as all low brass players know, t-bone takes a heck of a lot of wind. Elizabeth Young I have heard: If you have any other clothing myths you'd like to add, please write to Tasha. |