Costume for Kaltenberg -- check!

[yakalskovich]

After we'd seen large groups of 'Scots' at the medieval market here in Munich in early May, the Nazgul and I decided to go Scottish this year as well. All the more as the Nazgul found these forum threads where these hypercorrect and very German medieval costuming purists mocked the Scots fashion and/or earnestly demanded they ought to be banned from any serious event for the sake of historical correctness.

Well, we don't go to that sort of serious event with historical correctness anywhere, so we went ahead with the Ren Faire fashion type costumes that were generically influenced by this page the Nazgul had found.

Yesterday, I did my costume, and as the Nazgul popped by to lend me a tool that she has and I don't, she took pictures afterwards.

Here's a bonus one with surprise!ninja!cats. I honestly didn't realised they were there when I stood there. Mephi's under the chair in the first one, too, which you can only see if you know it...

Comments

[essayel.livejournal.com]

That's a nice plaid. Not eye-aching as they usually are. The davis one is bleah, pink and yellow!!

[yakalskovich]

Yep, I picked the plaid from a stack of affordable plaids that the Nazgul had found in a shop. There were soft beige, brown and green ones that would have coordinated better with the colours of the rest of the costume, but plaid isn't supposed to coordinate, and also I may have picked the pattern that was closest to Urquhart, even though the time frame of that costume is geared more towards trading some saucy remarks with Francis Crawford of Lymond...

You should add en 'E' to your name; then it wouldn't be all that bad:

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Better than pink and yellow but those colours never came from a plant and a handful of alum.

I looked at my maiden name - Cooper - but that's just as bad. Tartan is a modern invention and only really became big business with the invention of aniline dyes. And that coupled with the Victorian attitude that more is better is why so many of them give you eyecancer

[yakalskovich]

Yep, I heard -- clan tartans were only defined and codified in the 19th century. Plaid, however, seems to be ancient and (as you told me) a marker for Celtic presence as far as the Altai...

That's why I finally decided not to shell out for an Urquhart tartan (it would have had to be 'ancient', too, to look tolerable with the costume), but to pick out the next best thing at some brick-and-mortar shop. I'm quite content with that one.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Yes yours is a decent plaid. Not too bright and it blends in well.

[yakalskovich]

This is the one the Nazgul got for herself. It is blue.-