Re: MtMan-List: MtMan clothing

["Addison Miller" <sean@naplesnet.com>]

I forgot to say earlier that I do make most of my "furnishings" for the
camp.. bed, cook box, boxes, etc...

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank <Buckskinner@gbis.com>
To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com <hist_text@lists.xmission.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 25, 1998 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: MtMan clothing


>
>As a relatively new buckskinner I started out buying my skins, cotton
shirts,
>capote and shooting bag.  Immediately I began to alter the shooting bag to
my
>personal needs and look at my skins thinking I wish this or that was
different.
>For the most part I think I had to buy these "first" items to get started
but
>now look forward to making replacements for all but the capote.  I fault no
man
>for buying his equipment but now realize there is so much more pleasure in
>owning and using items you made yourself.  Perhaps it's a natural
progression as
>each person reaches his or her own depth of commitment?  Some aspire to a
"pure"
>experience and others to a "weekend" experience.  Both are perfectly
acceptable
>and at the same time diametrically opposed all the while sharing varying
amounts
>of common ground.  All that to say...to each his own!  I'd do things
differently
>if I was starting out again, but then again, I wouldn't know that if I
hadn't
>done things the way I did!
>
>Medicine Bear
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Amoore2120@aol.com [mailto:Amoore2120@aol.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 1998 11:52 AM
>> To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com
>> Subject: MtMan-List: MtMan clothing
>>
>>         . . . just curious, do the majority of present day MtMen sew or
>> purchase your
>> replica MtMan clothing?  Which pieces, specifically, do you sew and/or
>> regularly purchase?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Andrea Moore, Sewing Designer   Sewing Design Company
>> Amoore2120@aol.com
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