Re: MtMan-List: period clothing

["Matt Richards" <backcountry@braintan.com>]

Whats interesting to me in this discussion, is that I see many of the folks
who I'm assuming have been doing this for a long time, easily coming to the
conclusion that any ideas of altering period clothing as equalling the
wholesale bastardization of what was worn. My guess is that this is a hot
issue because so many folks do wholesale bastardizations, and that this is a
long standing issue.

The original context of this conversation was not the idea that one has the
right to run 'willie-nillie' over period styles, but that perhaps mtn men of
this era did alter some of their stuff to make it more practical for their
immediate survival situations, within the context of period materials,
technology and styles. This is a far jump from the defensive stances that I
read several of you taking. If you could not lump this with the countless
previous discussions you've perhaps had with folks who've wanted to just
make what'ever the hell they want, and look at the actual context of the
conversation, I think we would get farther with it.

In all due respect,

Matt Richards
www.braintan.com