[MR] "courtesy" and storm trooper outfits

[Stefan li Rous]

Logan asked:
<<< so, i have to ask, if someone showed up in said storm trooper gig  
why would
you be unable to politely tell them that it didnt belong? >>>

Well, how would you handle it if someone showed up nude? Perhaps you  
should handle your storm trooper similarly to how the Berkeley SCA  
group did the nudist. From the SCA-Stories2-msg file in the Florilegium:
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From: djheydt at uclink.berkeley.edu (Dorothy J Heydt)

Date: 2 Aug 1995 22:38:54 GMT

There is in Berkeley a guy famous for going around starkers whenever  
he can get away with it (which is not very often any more, since the  
City Council passed a law against it). He came to an SCA event once.  
They tell me he actually did show up in the buff, and the Autocrat  
came over and told him in no uncertain terms that this was not  
Berkeley, that there were children about, and that if he didn't want  
to get his ass busted into jail so fast the rest of him would have to  
catch up by Pony Express, he'd better put some clothing on it.

When I saw him, Friday evening, he was wearing a loincloth and a pair  
of sandals.

On Saturday I saw him in a pair of baggy pants and a pair of sandals.
By Sunday he had added a little bolero and a hat. If we'd had long  
enough to work on him, we probably could've gotten him fully clothed.

And then he could get a job posing for covers of romance novels-- he  
is in fairly decent shape (gad! he'd better be). He'd better grow his  
hair back in, though.


The amusing thing is that nobody tipped him off to try arguing that  
nakedness is period (Adam, etc.).

As Mistress Eilis remarked to Mistress Katherine Saturday morning, as  
they watched him doing calisthenics at the edge of the Eric, "There  
are nudists, and then there are exhibitionists. He's an exhibitionist."
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Stefan
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