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But you MUST put a bit of your DH's hair inside. (Or is that only done for the dear departed?)
He's going bald, I take anymore from him and he's pretty screwed. LOL And the lock of hair is only done to represent the dear departed.
The same vendor/friends he bought the pocket watch from has had a piece of hair jewelry that I've admired and wanted for a long time, but pieces like that and in good shape go from anywhere from $500 to $1,000.
I love the pictures, and I think you look just charming.
A friend of mine has a collection of Victorian hair art and it's fascinating. My mother said some of her aunts were still plaiting hair into pictures and lockets in the 1920's in northern Europe.
Today so many people think 19th century life was so sweet and quaint, but unless you had a passel of servants doing the daily chores for you, it was HARD work to be a 19th c. woman.
But does it not make you wonder why a descendent of an Austrian Ethnic Jew would choose to go to an event KNOWING that they might see a re-enactor dressed in a Waffen SS Uniform waiving a Swastika banner?
I beleive that I can unconfuse you. You raise the issue of voluntary exposure and that may be settled by reviewing NCN's description of participation.
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I visit schools, have visited several Ladies groups, marched in parades and take part in Living History events at Reenactments
Of the above, the first would seem to fall into the class of involuntary exposure. Students in a classroom or auditorium are a captive audience. A Ladies Group may or may not have briefed the members fully on what was in store by way of entertainment on a particular day.
The last I will grant you, someone attending an event advertised as a reenactment should be prepared to see historical recreations, and that would incluce recreations of characters he or she might deem offensive.
Why would you worry about one sour puss when there was prtoably hundreds that remarked on your work and dress while you went by in the parade? Just think of those that have to do things like meter maids;police officers and the haters they meet everyday but they learn to ignore these type. If you going to continue you will too have to disregard people especailly ones that obviously intend you to hear and offend.Basically most would call tehm surde;rude people and there are plenty. Next time I would hold my nose and say that something smells sour and stroll off like a lady.
You have a great well researched impression. I would not some morons get you down. Somebody is going to find a way to be offended about something no matter what you do. I did CW for amost 20 years before switching over to WWII.
Why would you worry about one sour puss when there was prtoably hundreds that remarked on your work and dress while you went by in the parade? Just think of those that have to do things like meter maids;police officers and the haters they meet everyday but they learn to ignore these type. If you going to continue you will too have to disregard people especailly ones that obviously intend you to hear and offend.Basically most would call tehm surde;rude people and there are plenty. Next time I would hold my nose and say that something smells sour and stroll off like a lady.
Both are portraying battle. One does it on camera, one in front of a live audience. Yet you have a problem with one, but not the other...
The difference between watching "They Were Expendable" and running around like an overgrown kid going "budda-budda" like a Sgt. Rock comic book should be obvious. Reenacting also betrays a certain lack of sensitivity to the gravity of the real events.
People making movies are also earning a living; that's pretty adult. Movies are work, reenacting is play. Anyway our maturity and taste is reflected in how we play.
Look, if people want to play war that's their business. But it's silly and childish. I too do silly, childish things at times.
Keep on doing what your doing. Do not let the easily offendable and politically correct drive you off. Do not let people make you think the confederate cause was wrong either. The south stood up for the right of states to govern themselves without federal tyranny. Considering how large and controlling the federal goverment has become in the modern age, its fair to say the confederacy was on the right side of this isssue. I am not a re-enacter like you, but I am a big war of southern independence nut. I visit the battlefields every year, read books, watch documentaries so its far to say its a bit of an obsession. I have the first national flag on my truck, and the third national flys off my front porch. I live in the upper midwest, so as you can imagine some people do not like it. That is thier business, they can be offended but I fly them for 2 reasons. First I fly them as a sign of displeasure toward the size and nature of federal goverment today. We have strayed far from our constitution. Second I fly them to honor the heros of the confederacy, and simply because I am interested in the war. It sounds like you have a similar love of that era of history so dont let the modern PC crowd ruin it for you. Ignore them.
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