I remember a story of a couple who sang at the New York Renaissance festival back in the 70's. They said that it looked like the the people that owned and ran the Fest. considered "renaissance" anything pre Beatles. :)
-----Original Message----- Audrey Bergeron-Morin wrote : >And then there's the time I was invited to a medieval wedding... the groom >was wearing a tricorn hat :-/ Yes, a lot of people seem to use "medieval" as a general term for "long ago". When I do 17th century the public often refer to us as medieval. Here in Britain adults don't dress up for Hallowe'en, but we did once wear costumes to work for one of those charity fundraising days. I wore 17th century clothing, and I too felt a bit as though I were cheating. Kate Bunting Librarian & 17th century reenactor. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
