[MR] Egyptian Personas in the SCA

[David Chessler]

 What, EXACTLY, were they wearing in Egypt in the 6th C? It was still part of
the Roman Empire, though it was Byzantium that considered itself the Roman
Empire at the time, and which ruled most of Italy at the time. See Belisarius.
 While Egypt was politically roman, culturally it was still Egyptian or
Ptolemaic Greek. Anyhow, "Hellenistic culture continued to thrive in  Egypt
well after the Muslim conquest." [That is, into the 7th C or beyond]]
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/History_of_Ptolemaic_Egypt. 
This implies that there would be nothing wrong with a wearing a pleated cotton
skirt, or, even better, a transparent linen shirt. :-)
 
 
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  Received: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 08:19:04 PM EDT
  From: Gina Shelley <paintedwheel at hotmail.com>
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  Subject: Re: [MR] Egyptian Personas in the SCA
 
 
 
 
   
      I would submit that there is no polite way to do that. And since the
rule that OUGHT to trump any other rule is that of showing as much courtesy as
we can manage, we have a bit of a conflict, it would seem.
     
      Although the "pharoah hat", admittedly, would possibly fall under the
new coronet foolishness of late...
     
      Dulcy
     
     
      >
      > If someone interested in recreating a fatimid persona wants to visit
Western Europe with his/her arts to display, I will welcome them with polite
interest. If you walk around in a pleated cotton kilt and a pharoah hat, I
will politely call you on it.
     
     
     
     
     
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