Oh, Elizabeth! That is so very funny! ;oD Especially since I'm sort of built like a very large, very short Valkerie anyway. Dear god, but I'm laughing at the idea of my chest in a "brass bra" set up! I'll have to remember it for next year! This year, though, I don't have time to come up with anything genuinely schlocky and costumey, or good but costumey so I'm either going in SCA garb, or I'm wearing my weekday clothes, and going as a Muggle. --Sue
----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Walpole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 7:17 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Happy Halloween! > <snip> > > --Sue, who's going to work on Tuesday as a 10th century Norse woman > > (okay...I'm lazy this year...it's SCA garb <g>) > > > ah but it's Halloween, you need to add a Wagnerian style 'Viking' horned > helmet (preferably with long blonde braids attached) and call yourself > Brunhilda, for Halloween you've got to be a modern stereotype, not an > accurate historical 'everyman' (or 'everywoman' in this case), you can dress > as a famous historical figure (Marie Antoinette, Cleopatra, Napoleon, Henry > VIII etc) but if you're an average woman of year X in true Halloween > tradition it should be a stereotype like a 'wench' or a 'flapper' or a > 'Viking' (in the style of a Wagnerian opera). Halloween is about pop-culture > stereotypes, not historical accuracy :-D > I won't be dressing up for Halloween as I'll be at home all day preparing > for an exam on Friday so I suppose I can't really talk. > Elizabeth _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
