Re: MtMan-List: period clothing

["Gail Carbiener" <carbg@cmc.net>]

Waugh:
    I have read with interest the discussions on clothing and now on
tanning. Great infomation............ but it seems that after a day or two
we begin to start using the "you" and "I" and the discussion goes to hell in
a hurry. Maybe that is an indication that we have said all there is to say!
    Gail Carbiener
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-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Richards <backcountry@braintan.com>
To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com <hist_text@lists.xmission.com>
Date: Thursday, December 17, 1998 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: period clothing


>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
>
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