MD Renaissance Festival

[svc40bt]

Albannach is playing again this year. 9/26-27 and again on the Scottish weekend 10/17-18.

I plan to go 10/17. Anyone else?

[Frank McGrath]

Depending on how I am feeling at the time, I really want to go. Doctor's opinions be damned.

[kilted_brewer]

Thinking about it!

[O'Callaghan]

I've already been once this year, and my wife wants to go when her friends are in town, so I couldn't go a third time! The best I could do would be to try to nudge her friends to go on October 17th.

This was the first time I wore a kilt to this particular event, although I've been to it many times in trousers. I was probably the only person there wearing modern clothes (i.e. a T-shirt and modern boots) with a (tartan) kilt.

There were many, many, guys there in modern kilts with a 'renaissance shirt' (indistinguishable from the 'jacobite' shirts that kilt vendors sell), and only a handful actually wearing a great kilt, which would be the only type of kilt that wasn't anachronistic. I do tend to wonder if I might have been taken for one more guy who can't figure out the correct historical attire, when in reality I was simply someone dressed in modern attire that just happened to be wearing a kilt?

There again, I saw one elderly guy wearing a horned viking helmet with a modern check shirt and modern trousers, so maybe I'm over-thinking it?

I am tempted to get a jacobite shirt to wear on a future visit, but it seems that, even though that would fit in with the crowd, it would still be anachronistic. Perhaps also a matching plaid worn to simulate the effect of a great kilt? I think a few people there were doing that, and it doesn't seem too bad an idea?

I also noticed one of the performers wearing a kilt with the knife pleats running the wrong way around. Surprisingly, my son said he also spotted that, although he's never worn a kilt. I imagine this guy had converted a ladies' kilt to close on the men's side, and failed to notice that the pleats ran the wrong way, or couldn't work out how to fix it/figured no-one would notice anyway?

[davedove]

so maybe I'm over-thinking it?

You're definitely overthinking it. If you want historical accuracy, that's fine, but remember it's a Renn Faire, not a historical recreation. People are going to have fun with a Rennaisance 'flavor'.

[Frank McGrath]

I just like watching the costumes worn by the women. I could care less what the guys are wearing.

[Madadh]

I should be there both this Sunday and as many Sundays as I can.

[O'Callaghan]

I just like watching the costumes worn by the women. I could care less what the guys are wearing.

Most of them cover too much for my liking!

I also saw a lady in a nice dress wearing a men's tricorn hat. I suppose at least she made more effort than the 'modern viking' guy, LOL!