This is all so encouraging...

I really want to wear a feather in my TOS. Maybe a big pheasant or eagle feather (maybe two) stuck upright over the left ear/temple. I am reassured at the number of folks who would admire me for it.

I was also thinking of wearing grey woolen tights instead of hose (to keep my nether regions warm and strapping a Bowie knife to my calf in lieu of that tiny, contemptible ant-stabber.