Maru's Mun Journal

Here I am with the beginning of the loop scarf I am knitting. You can really see the pattern I'm doing now.

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My sister suggested that I should adapt the 'Scottish medieval' costume to a version wearable in an everyday context.

Or at least for special occasions, for I can't quite see myself going to work like that.

So, today I did:
( Pictures behind the cut! )

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...

Hey, dramaturgca, now that I have a new computer that's able to handle even complex Java with ease, I finally ordered my Urq mugs (three, as I am doing them anyway) from Cafepress.

They're going to look like this:

Which is to say, what's weird for other places is quite normal here.

So today nazgul_nr_5 came to have her picture taken in the complete Quidditch outfit she made herself. Many times, and in great detail.

Not out of any pointy vanity or something, merely for business reasons.

It's quite a warm day today, but for the sake of Authentic Quidditch, the Nazgul put on, in this order:

• a hand-knitted Quidditch sweater


• a pair of shin pads made out of padded naugahyde


• a pair of knee pads, ditto


• a huge Quidditch robe


• a pair of warm black gloves (!!)


• the left arm pad


• the right arm pad, with which she needed my help at exactly one buckle

Then we went out into the second back courtyard, in the sun, and I took many pictures with her digital camera. In the middle of proceedings, she had to change batteries, but after trying to open the battery compartment with her gloved fingers for a while, she let me do it. She couldn't take off the gloves, you see, because she would have had to take off the arm pads as well.

While we were doing that, the Bulgarian woman the Metropolintans pay to clean all the staircases went back and forth about her business and smiled at us in a totally matter-of-fact way. She must have seen much odder things in our courtyards before, I guess.

( See the Nazgul melt inside her Quidditch outfit )