SCA you know those crazy guys that beat each other up with sticks

[prattw]

ok I got my first taste of kilts in the SCA

http://www.sca.org/

and I was wondering ho wmany of us partake in medevial renanctment?

ALSO I plan on going to my 9th

http://www.estrellawar.org/

this year (feb-06 ) and I was wondering who of my kilted breathern might be there too?


Scott

(edited to remove HTML tags - Mike)

My son-in-law is King of the Kingdom of Vegas in the ECS. He and my daughter are regulars at Estrella War. When they married last year it was at the Las Vegas Renfaire. Both families were in quasi-period Scottish garb, as in appropriate shirts, hose and shoes, but wearing tailored kilts rather than actual philabegs. (The ECS cutoff date is actualy 1650, interpreted loosely, so philabegs would be marginal, but barely in range, if you fudge a bit. Neither Grant nor Gordon tartans would be in period, of course, but if you just think of them as tartan . . .)

Matt, for belted plaids to be worn by a whole group of Scottish mercs in 1594, they had to have been in use for a while. After all, they didn't just invent them for the job. Their being worn in 1594 certainly makes a date of origin of 1580 or a bit earlier likely and in fact lends credence to the descriptions ca 1575 that could be read either way. That's still pretty marginal for the SCA time limits, of course.

Will Pratt