I have been wondering what you guys consider your style to be?
its hard to say for me cause I wore a kind of nice colorful peasant outfit today at my local faire and tomorrow I will be wearing an eleven dress thats roughly designed from LOTR
I would say mine is Irish peasant to middle class depending on my grab. Currently working on a much more middle class grab set then I have worn to date, but still "Irish".
Hubby and boys (5 and 3) are "celtic warriors" in kilts and wooden weapons (since MDRF doesn't allow weapons).
Mine is definitely fantasy though one could claim the idea of wizards existing during the dark ages was historical...
I actually have several styles of outfits but of these I would say my main ones are Pirate, Viking and Ithilien Ranger.
Depends on the weekend theme, but Arabian, Scottish, English knight, noble, merchant, wizard, elf/fairies and pirates this year, for us.
Great thread, Adriana! I am firmly "lower-middle-middle-class," in part because my sewing skills aren't ready for noble garb yet! But I also have a Celtic look on standby, and I did some light gypsy garb in Las Vegas a couple weeks ago.
I'm only wearing black until something darker comes along...
Immortal Female Privateer a la Maureen O'Hara in any Swashbuckling movie! ;)
Pre 1550 Spain.
I like colors. ;)
Upper CLass~
Nobility..
Mid 12-15 Century
Is Whyte Trashe a choice? ;)
Randal
Pirate, pirate, pirate, 100% pirate. Unless I'm playing a Time Lord (The Doctor), then not so piratey. :D
Hmmm...good question! I started out trying to be a historically accurate wealthy Florentine merchant (well, maybe not so much that first season ;) ) but, once it dawned on me that no one at faire really gave a rat's weed puller about accuracy, I joined the SCA for the accurate stuff and anything goes at faire! I've got peasant, pirate, "belly dancer", and YES even steampunk! Whatever my mood and th weather dictates. :)
Depends on which faire I'm at.
Some are Noble, very historically accurate.
My home faire varies depending on what's going on that day, usually wench or merchant, or courtesan, occasionally lower noble.
Faires I just visit, any of the above, maybe a bit less HA but my clothing is my advertising, so it's got to look good.
It depends on the weather but I can go from Viking to GOP. I have High Tudor, Yeoman class merchant, ect... I even have some Roman if it really hot.
If I'm wearing Briar Rose, I'm the 'servant/ body guard' Pirate. If I'm going as Lady stitch I'm technically I'm a middle class servant who went a little nuts. You know those dye fumes and dealing with one too many divas.
Wench. ;D
I keep coming to this thread and wondering if, indeed, I actually have a "style". I think I'd have to say Romantic. I like to wear pretty things and dance and laugh and flirt while at faire. Anna and my pirate Deadeye Rose( it's not dead yet...I think it's gettn' better... :D) definitly like to walk on the rosier side of the street.
I like my Gypsy style because it lets me mix things from lots of different cultures and get away with it, because, y'know... Gypsies travel. ;P So I can wear Middle Eastern poufy harem pants with my strictly European bodice, and hike my tiered skirt up a bit to show them along with my leather sandals, my Turkish beads and all the interesting little trade goods that dangle off my belt and hide in my basket... Just wait til next year when I wear the turban and the Turkish coat over it all! ::) :D
I went from Pirate to silly garland girl in cute colors and frills to what one of my Garland Girls calls The Garland Madam no clue what she meant but I like the sound of it lol. This year I wore more err with out a better word mature things less cleavage more higher necked shirts so Id classify it as Merchant middle class with out the bells and whistles that H/A calls for
Lower nobility (or at least upper middle) or fairy. I like to feel pretty.
Lower nobility/cavalier/Dame(female knight for those who don't know this)
may go pirate next year depends on how much i like my halloween look.
16th century sailor. Very minimal, very plain.
Wandering Warrior/Monster Hunter/Dragon Slayer/Thief of Lady's Virtue
The monsters and dragons must be truly bad, not just a nuisance for me to deal with;
The ladies only slightly so.
Upper/Noble-ish. I love all the trim & skirts & gems & jewelry...Hysterically Historically Approximate ;)
Drunken Irish kilt wearer!
I'm more into fantasy. But, i do have some gypsy and peasant garb.
Completely not HA, but I frankly don't give a damn. Now bring on more cider please!
Lower nobility/cavalier/Dame. Yep that sounds pretty much like me, maybe throw in a little wench in there.
Upper Nobility with all the bells and whistles. My husband is the 1st Earl of Olmsted. I plan to make him some new garb in 2011.
When dressing down, we go more Middle Class. That's due more in part to the hotter weather than anything else.
After 15 years of faire, I have everything from peasant, wench, fantasy (my new Moresca fro-fro -- yeah!), pirate, Scottish, and noble.
We find when we wear noble garb, we are treated differently by the merchants, cast, and other visitors. Sometimes that can be fun, but our faire is in the summer, and it's usually too hot.
Wench is easier to wear. If it's been dastardly hot, Steve & I have sat on the grass under a tree, which I'd never do in noble garb or a farthingale, but it's no problem to throw the skirt in the wash when we get home if there are grass stains on it.
My favorite is when Steve wears his kilt (what's not to love about that?!) and I usually wear some aspect of my Buchanan garb. I have a couple of outfits which I can mix and match, so I'm not wearing the same thing every time.
I don't know that I have a particular style, but most of what I wear leans towards fae or wench (usually a mixture of both) Trying to go more fae, but I haven't had as much time as I'd like to work on it.
The hunter, the adventurer. Not too complex on the clothes and any weapons are more of to be used against animals, such as the bull whip I hope to add soon. Fur parkas, leather and skin capes, leather boots, animal prints. A poet's shirt and wrap pants.
Now, eventually, I might go to a kilt There is practicallity in such and now that I am briefly playing a slave in Cleopatra's Egypt, the thought is not so foreign to me.........................although in these cold temperatures, britches seem like rather good notion, too!
At any event, clothes that go in with the story of a rich landsman of the north, who got tired of the trappings of wealth, turned the estate over to a sibling (brother? sister?) and traveled the world as the owner/navigator of the sail vessel Icarus, to learn unarmed combat in the orient, hunt tigers with the king in India, ride horses on the great plains of the southern new world.....................and be given that odd little device of metals and glass to capture images by the gypsies.
Upwardly Mobile! I love being in the best fabrics and jewelry I can find or make!! So I would have to say more is more for me.
I was "Wench Gear" When I worked Faire and I really did not enjoy that, I have always wanted the big dresses that people ooo and ahh over
so for me? It is Go Big? Or Go Home!
LOL ;D :D
Cilean
Quote from: Cilean on November 24, 2010, 01:38:46 AM
Upwardly Mobile! I love being in the best fabrics and jewelry I can find or make!! So I would have to say more is more for me.
I was "Wench Gear" When I worked Faire and I really did not enjoy that, I have always wanted the big dresses that people ooo and ahh over
so for me? It is Go Big? Or Go Home!
LOL ;D :D
Cilean
My girlfriend did that when she made a gown to go to faire. She said that in real life she's a maid, nurse, & slave and it was her fantasy, darn it, so at least somewhere she was going to be a queen! She made a lovely gown & went a couple of times & enjoyed it but then fell away from the faire scene.
At my home faire... "Royal", since I'm the Queen
other faire's "Noble"
Basically its 'anything but noble'. Pirate, wench, bellydancer, pirate fairy, steampunk explorer, airship pirate, steampunk bellydancer, gypsy.
My only reason for no noble garb is because I'm pretty sure I would get too hot & I don't want to spend a lot of money on something I can't wear very often. I also prefer pieces I can mix & match to a full dress.
So far, wench and pirate.
My style would be Mercenary, Dragon Slayer style armor. But definitely mercenary.
I'm so glad you revived this thread, Grammercy kulrath Bane! You certainly look very very mercenary.
(so surprised I never posted this topic)
My sister & I play at tradeswomen, needleworkers - so less than middle class, finer than peasant.
Never noble - ack, the heat!!
However, I dream of noble winter wear for the Castleteers gatherings.
Firmly 16th century. 1550-80's. A merchant adventurer. Skirting the edges of the sumptuary laws.
Deerskin leather.
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I tend to like military subjects -- as historically acurate-looking as I can manage. That means lots of wool and natural linen, solid colors (unless I'm doing the Scottish theme with tartans) as a common man -- no cottons, silks or leather clothing. I also like the outer fringe of the Renaissance, around the 80 Years War through the English Civil War and to the Jacobite uprisings. I'm working on a new 1600s matchlock musketeer garb that can have interchangeable pieces to portray everything from Elizabethan times to the ECW, although one day I'd love to go as a Landsknecht ...
Quote from: Maithu Ruadh on May 06, 2012, 08:41:53 PM
I also like the outer fringe of the Renaissance, around the 80 Years War through the English Civil War and to the Jacobite uprisings. I'm working on a new 1600s matchlock musketeer garb that can have interchangeable pieces to portray everything from Elizabethan times to the ECW, although one day I'd love to go as a Landsknecht ...
You're Manneristic! :)
( http://operafantomet.livejournal.com/248393.html )
It's always been basic wench, with a little gypsy-ish thrown in, and a touch of Scottish. I've tried a court dress, and I hated it. I don't like all the rules for who can wear what colors/trims, etc., so I'm good with my easier, more free style. A few weeks ago, Queen Margaret named me the resident Scottish Gypsy.
I'd say I'm a little bit of everything...although, those who know me don't "believe" me when I'm dressed as a "Lady". Snort! ;D Guess I have just a bit too much wench in me! :-* But since I'm basically lower middle class in real life (being broke and all), I DO like to at least pretend to be upper class at faire! And that way I get to wear my two favorite colors: Shiny and Sparkly! ;) But, I do gypsy-ish, wench-ish, merchant-ish, fae-ish, pirate-ish, etc. I guess that makes my style "ISH"!
Quote from: operafantomet on May 09, 2012, 12:57:46 AM
You're Manneristic! :)
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Anea, GREAT! article!!
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Amy, I think my fair style is Ish, too! ;D
Sounds right to me! Case in point --- some Landsknechts wore pants so baggy and poofy with such huge codpieces that they were outlawed by religious leaders as being too outrageous.
Downwardly mobile! :D
Having fallen on hard times, Lady Prudence has to earn her living, but does it in a genteel fashion, making high class garb for her peers.
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I'm LARPing rather than Fairing.
I would tend to describe my current faire style as "breezy".
I have two working outfits right now, a Druid and a "autumn fairy" kinda deal, but after wearing the autumn fairy corset to Sherwood and having a bathroom mishap, I really am not feeling corsets right now. But all of my current clothes are pretty light, breezy, and 100% cotton. I just love feeling the wind rustling through my clothes and the feeling of fabric billowing around me as I move.
I do wanna add a female Templar knight ( Shiny pauldrons! ) to my garb set before TRF, and hopefully before SWFF next year I can go as a Taureg wife to compliment my husband's garb. But still breezy and relaxed.
Currently I have a wizard persona (to which I'm devoting some time, effort, and revision currently), and a (fairly) historically accurate mid-3rd century BC Manipular Roman Army officer (the armor of which may pull double duty as Poseison, god of the sea, when paired with my trident).
My "style" I would say is "mix-and-match." I do a variety of costuming things, from Renfaire to drag, and I've got lots of pieces which go back and forth between my various characters.
I started out doing a fairly accurate Viking, but moved into fantasy. After wearing an uber-heavy dragonscale armor a couple of years I'm now falling into barbarian/goblin styles. The scruffier the better, it seems...
Oh my...I have been really all over the place. Wench, noble, steampunk, medieval, elf, Irish, Scottish, Indian, everything. I try to tie it all together with my name, Flidais, a Celtic deity that was a shapeshifter. So I figure that gives me the right to be something different every weekend.
This year though I am really into tribal fusion belly dance, so I'm planning my garb around that.
High Class Noble Pirate?
OK Venetian Courtesan, Meets the 1st and last wife of King Henry VIII, meets Elizabethan noble meets Funky Pirate of the early 15th Century