A solid idea for a costume..
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britgeekgrrl being utterly awesome, I now have a doublet. This one is very dark blue and black, with little blue highlights. Very nice, and it fits me nicely. Now that I have this piece, my mind turned to what I could do with it. This jacket is very sturdy and not ostentatious, the kind of thing someone of some means but still lives a little rough might wear. I also own a lovely black hooded cloak. It's far to thin to be authentic period, but it works very well with the jacket. So what to do....
Then it hit me. Magic cloak. That's the reason why it's so thin and light, it's not there to keep me warm, it does something. Which made the costume obvious.
A low/mid-level magic user. An adventurer. Rather than sitting at a desk pouring over spellbooks, he's out pillaging tombs, fighting fell beasts, and always searching for items of wonder and new spells. Unfashionably random and untamed to the more staid mages, but they are than willing to buy the things he finds in ruined cities.
Which brings us to what else I'm going to need. An authentic set of pants, leather or wool, and a period shirt to wear under the jacket. Good boots. A nice floppy hat. A cool staff. And a belt with various pouches for my potions, material components, and the like. If I can find one, a small leather-bound book and a belt case for it.. everyone needs a spell book! More likely I'd have two, one for my established spells, one for notes, which means adding a quill pen set to the ensemble. A nice magic ring and/or amulet. Maybe leather gauntlets. And a dagger. The first two items are going to be the expensive ones. Luckily, these fine folks seem to have just about everything I could wish for. Just a quick pass on this site shows I can get the big ticket items for right around $200 in total.
Obviously not something I'm putting together tomorrow, but I will have it ready for next year's Epic Sweep of Conventions!
britgeekgrrl being utterly awesome, I now have a doublet. This one is very dark blue and black, with little blue highlights. Very nice, and it fits me nicely. Now that I have this piece, my mind turned to what I could do with it. This jacket is very sturdy and not ostentatious, the kind of thing someone of some means but still lives a little rough might wear. I also own a lovely black hooded cloak. It's far to thin to be authentic period, but it works very well with the jacket. So what to do....Then it hit me. Magic cloak. That's the reason why it's so thin and light, it's not there to keep me warm, it does something. Which made the costume obvious.
A low/mid-level magic user. An adventurer. Rather than sitting at a desk pouring over spellbooks, he's out pillaging tombs, fighting fell beasts, and always searching for items of wonder and new spells. Unfashionably random and untamed to the more staid mages, but they are than willing to buy the things he finds in ruined cities.
Which brings us to what else I'm going to need. An authentic set of pants, leather or wool, and a period shirt to wear under the jacket. Good boots. A nice floppy hat. A cool staff. And a belt with various pouches for my potions, material components, and the like. If I can find one, a small leather-bound book and a belt case for it.. everyone needs a spell book! More likely I'd have two, one for my established spells, one for notes, which means adding a quill pen set to the ensemble. A nice magic ring and/or amulet. Maybe leather gauntlets. And a dagger. The first two items are going to be the expensive ones. Luckily, these fine folks seem to have just about everything I could wish for. Just a quick pass on this site shows I can get the big ticket items for right around $200 in total.
Obviously not something I'm putting together tomorrow, but I will have it ready for next year's Epic Sweep of Conventions!
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Date: 7 Jun 2010 08:39 (UTC)Basically, two very shallow wooden boxes hinged together so the open parts come together. A layer of beeswax goes in the "box". You use a stylus to write (basically the white wood shows thru the "cuts" made by the stylus. And there's a broad end to the stylus to smooth the wax back over to erase things).
I think some SCA merchants carry them. Figure the size of a paperback (the old thin ones) or larger. Very handy.
Or you can use a real lead "pencil" and paper.