Dec. 16th, 2007

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I have this:
 

I also have this:

Do I want to make this (with the purple geometric)?

Or this (with the white)?

Or just wear my karaginu mo to Twelfth Night?

EDIT. Bad girl, no citations! Both those pictures come from the Kyoto Costume Museum website at http://www.iz2.or.jp/english/
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There's a great quote from Christine de Pisan:

"Thus, always saving both her own honor and her lord's, the good lady will not rest until she has spoken, or has had someone else speak to those who have committed the misdeed in question, alternately soothing and reproving them."
In the interest of setting some things straight vis a vis yesterday's posting, I have seen and known a great many wonderful people who just happen to have SCA peerages. I have also seen and known and borne the brunt of some incredibly shitty treatment via people who just happen to have SCA peerages ( and no, you do not get to hear who they are or what they did).

You know what? Peers are just people who have to pay the same price I do for lunch at Subway. Sometimes this means someone has to be reminded of that.  Or have pointed out to him/her how something perfectly innocent appears not to be to those outside the "I Assumed You Knew" radius.

I've looked around at various people who engaged in mentor/student relationships. Some worked very well. Some were the sort of disasters involving belt flinging and cries of "Never again."

I'd much rather assign my own homework based on what interests me at any given time. I'm an adult. I really don' t feel I need someone to fill that function for me.

Why should I limit myself to picking one brain when I can pick brains all over the Known World and beyond? I have "Go To" people for almost every occasion. I think this rocks.

Do I need an advocate in a peerage council?  Dear Lord, why?  I'm not on a career path. I'm pursuing a hobby.  If anybody sees and cares, great. If not, great.

(What do you mean, this isn't the Society for Creative Anarchy?)
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I just went down and measured everything and it's going to be the blue bling as a kariginu because the white is simply not wide enough to get a suikan out of.

Re: [profile] kass_rants  objections to cross dressing, I would offer the following episode from the Kamakura period. She may now roll her eyes and sigh, "Kids these days!":

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Buddhist monks in Japan stage a fashion show of traditional vestments in an effort to rekindle interest in Buddhism.


http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/popup?id=4005047
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iNAaZembC-OvLVm5dOXVtbOVeorgD8TI2VTG0
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Sorta for my own reference, but feel free to look:

These are from a site that makes costumes for gagaku performances.

http://gagaku.suki2.com/product/img/shinkan/kariginu_ainezumi_gatyo.jpg

Nice detail of collar construction and frog closure.  http://gagaku.suki2.com/product/img/shinkan/kariginu_moegi_gatyo.jpg

Hats! Er, I mean, eboshi.

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