The Best, Easiest Things To Avoid or Remove from your SCA Kit
This list will expand over time and will be available at delaflamme.org . I think of these things, know I should write them down, and then forget. Now it is here, and I'll come back to it as other things resurface in my mind.
The idea here is to note the things that 1) too many people do, 2) Are easy or cheap to change or avoid, 3) are in no way medieval. Feel free to chime in!
- Ring Belts. I've never seen an example of one of these in period. Belts have real buckles.
- T shirts whose collars are visible under your tunic. Get an undertunic, or a v neck t if you must.
- Tankard Holders. These are from the 1970's Renn Faire Period.
- More than 2 favors on your belt. Some people look like rag merchants from so many.
stuff to kick
Pewter Tankards with the plastic bottom - a variety of more period appropriate drinking vessels are available in materials such as wood, bone, pottery, glass, even leather. None involve showing your tonsils to your dining companions though the bottom of your cup.
Girard
Watches
Modern wristwatch: just stick it in a belt pouch.
This is a purely fighting
This is a purely fighting one, but one of the things that makes me cringe.
Put your knee pads and jock strap under your pants! It was one of the first instructions my knight gave me (kneepads) and it does so much to improve one's kit, with no additional effort.
The cup thing is just ridiculous. No one needs to see that, and it totally harshs my medieval mellow.
Sir Bryce de Byram, OL, OP