[MR] Your suggestions please => Newcomers thread

[Aimee Kratts]

I'm going to chime in and answer Siegfried's question, too, since I did very same thing => wearing really nice garb to the first event.

I was going to be a costume designer for a living. I took classes in college to do costume design for the stage. So, I already had a really good idea about historic garb construction, reference sources, fitting, etc. at least as done for the stage. That's why I was able to put together garb for an event without ever having been associated with the SCA first.
 
Aimee
 
> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:17:15 -0400
> From: siegfried at crossbows.biz
> To: atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
> Subject: Re: [MR] Your suggestions please => Newcomers thread
> 
> Olivia ... since you so recently went through this experience. Could
> you help the rest of us understand something?
> 
> What led you upon the path of doing all the research, making garb, etc.
> And then showing up for an event as your first introduction to the SCA?
> 
> For many of us 'old-timers', when we got into the SCA, it was a much
> different experience, where we first found out about the SCA, and then
> our first reaction was immediately to contact the Seneschal or
> Chatelaine of the local group, talk to them ... which in turn led to us
> attending meetings, A&S nights, fighter practices, etc. And getting to
> know the local group, get help making garb, and be 'part of the SCA',
> long before attending an event.
> 
> Deeply curious,
> Siegfried
> 
> 
> On 10/15/10 11:12 AM, Olivia Chandler wrote:
> > Lord Jack Black, et. al.,
> > 
> > I greatly like your idea of posting signage at the troll for newcomers. I
> > and my daughter were newcomers at a recent event. We were as described
> > earlier: did the research, showed up in garb, trolled without issue, then
> > where a bit lost.
> > 
> > We were almost immediately rescued by kind folk who recognized our
> > unfamiliarity (or possibly the deer in the headlight looks.) We met many
> > kind folk that day, made some new friends, and had a wonderful time, but
> > without their intervention it could have been a quite different kind of day.
> > 
> > Knowing there was someone we could "hook-up" with would have been helpful.
> > 
> > Many Thanks,
> > 
> > Olivia Chandler.
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