Of course, there are men who make and wear elaborate garb (the idea that wanting to wear fancy clothes is unmasculine is a fairly recent innovation as far as I can tell), and women who fight.
The SCA doesn’t exactly have something for everybody (for example, I have a strong preference for sf fandom), but it does have something for both those who want a costume party and those who want to do carefully researched recreation of period skills.
One advantage of recreating the good parts of a past society is that there’s a full human range of activities—cooking, games, fighting, etc.
One thing the SCA does well is to have fighting awards, service awards, and arts and sciences awards. All we’ve got is posting to LW awards.
The word you’re looking for is “garb”.
Of course, there are men who make and wear elaborate garb (the idea that wanting to wear fancy clothes is unmasculine is a fairly recent innovation as far as I can tell), and women who fight.
The SCA doesn’t exactly have something for everybody (for example, I have a strong preference for sf fandom), but it does have something for both those who want a costume party and those who want to do carefully researched recreation of period skills.
One advantage of recreating the good parts of a past society is that there’s a full human range of activities—cooking, games, fighting, etc.
One thing the SCA does well is to have fighting awards, service awards, and arts and sciences awards. All we’ve got is posting to LW awards.