1940's armpit dress shields anyone?
I'll soon be switching posts on this topic to my re-enactment Blog to be kept on Somewhere with Karen ... but in the meantime a short update on what we've been up to.
Tomorrow we leave for Kentwell in Suffolk, where we've been doing some 'research' into re-enactment over the last three years - joining the huge annual Tudor Re-enactment they have there. This year we're turning research into a live project called "Sometime Later ..."
Sometime on Saturday we will be joining their WW II re-enactment for the first time and I am currently experiencing the extreme costume/lack of historical knowledge anxiety that I felt pre-tudor re-enactment 3 years ago. Where, for example, am I going to find some authentic seamed stockings, a dark green beret and a solution to my short hair cut before Saturday morning? Also no sign of the WVS repro. badges ordered to go on our new itchy WVS uniforms yet. As if to top it all the usual pre-event mailout arrived from Kentwell this morning stating that if we have no 1940's plate and cup we will not be eating or drinking ... that's that then!
At least our shoes are on the way. Our ever fabulous assistant Jane trekked across Hertfordshire yesterday to the home of Claire's parents (our also fabulous tailor) ... all of whom have now been caught up in the quest for two similar pairs of 1940's shoes. We are raiding the stock-pile hoarded by Claire during her days as a fashion student when she based her collection on the 40's ... for which we are eternally grateful as size 6 vintage shoes are, it seems, like Hen's teeth.
Hopefully it all comes together with camping kit and our blogging keyboards Saturday at Kentwell - let's hope it doesn't rain but also that it's not too hot, those WVS uniforms are wooly.
Tomorrow we leave for Kentwell in Suffolk, where we've been doing some 'research' into re-enactment over the last three years - joining the huge annual Tudor Re-enactment they have there. This year we're turning research into a live project called "Sometime Later ..."
Sometime on Saturday we will be joining their WW II re-enactment for the first time and I am currently experiencing the extreme costume/lack of historical knowledge anxiety that I felt pre-tudor re-enactment 3 years ago. Where, for example, am I going to find some authentic seamed stockings, a dark green beret and a solution to my short hair cut before Saturday morning? Also no sign of the WVS repro. badges ordered to go on our new itchy WVS uniforms yet. As if to top it all the usual pre-event mailout arrived from Kentwell this morning stating that if we have no 1940's plate and cup we will not be eating or drinking ... that's that then!
At least our shoes are on the way. Our ever fabulous assistant Jane trekked across Hertfordshire yesterday to the home of Claire's parents (our also fabulous tailor) ... all of whom have now been caught up in the quest for two similar pairs of 1940's shoes. We are raiding the stock-pile hoarded by Claire during her days as a fashion student when she based her collection on the 40's ... for which we are eternally grateful as size 6 vintage shoes are, it seems, like Hen's teeth.
Hopefully it all comes together with camping kit and our blogging keyboards Saturday at Kentwell - let's hope it doesn't rain but also that it's not too hot, those WVS uniforms are wooly.
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