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The Lesser of Two Weevils

@pinsandweevils / pinsandweevils.tumblr.com

Marius — ♂— xxi — historical sewing, reenactment, and snail art.
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Man I hate it when people use the pronoun “you” as a singular pronoun in an informal setting. “You” is plural, unless thou dost speak to an unfamiliar person. The correct singular second person pronoun is “thou” in most cases. Grammar never changes. Pronouns must always stay one way until the end of time. Learn thy proper English. *sigh* Kids these days.

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If thou this mistake shouldst make on thine own blog, then know, villain, that thou art a dirty descriptivist, and no friend of mine. Ne'er should language itself alter, it doth remain fixèd as such, untouch’d by change. Wouldst thou, vile descriptivist, that we forget the heritage of our great tongue? Nay, say I. Thou art but a dickhead who sayest so.

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stynt ðy clappe! beoð ðo writerris be wetleas knafen. ðy langag o engelond diffoulened be, ille usenid bi sclaundrous novelri.

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Anonymous asked:

Hello!

I have a question in regards to XVII Century undergarments when donning Scottish highland dress.

There is the stereotype of scots not wearing underwear under their kilts, and of course it's always portrayed in a humorous manner like them running a little too quickly and accidentally mooning those around them. However, I know from 18th century reenacting that the shirts are intentionally left long in order to be tucked around the loins when wearing breeches. Wouldn't that be the same for the 17th century? I know from wearing a kilt that it would be impossible to tuck it around oneself and expect it to keep in place, but if one is to wear 17th century highland dress and their kilt is to lift up a little, wouldn't it just expose the skirt of their shirt?

Thank you very much!

pinsandweevils answered:

Hi! This is a really good question, although I want to preface this by saying that I don’t do 17th century stuff. I do 16th and 18th century reenactment, though, and I think the general concept is the same.

You’re absolutely right—highlanders at the time weren’t wearing any kind of briefs. (I can’t quite say that they weren’t wearing any underwear at all, since the shirt would have been considered underwear.). It’s fully possible to tuck a shirt into a kilt, and the doublet, waistcoat, and/or jacket will help keep the shirt in place, as well.

Theoretically, if your kilt blows up, you’ll still have a long shirt underneath, although if it’s windy enough to blow wool fabric around, it should be windy enough for the linen of the shirt to get blown around too.

From practical experience, though, I haven’t really seen any Marilyn Monroe type wardrobe malfunctions—the main issues seem come up when you’re sitting, or when you’re ‘dying’ on the battlefield.

Eighteenth century reenactors are generally expected to wear modern briefs with their kit, since re-enactments and historical fairs are family friendly events, and we’re wary of accidental flashing and upskirting.

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Anyway guess who got (accidentally) upskirted this weekend

#upkilted???#thank God I was wearing shorts
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Anonymous asked:

Hello!

I have a question in regards to XVII Century undergarments when donning Scottish highland dress.

There is the stereotype of scots not wearing underwear under their kilts, and of course it's always portrayed in a humorous manner like them running a little too quickly and accidentally mooning those around them. However, I know from 18th century reenacting that the shirts are intentionally left long in order to be tucked around the loins when wearing breeches. Wouldn't that be the same for the 17th century? I know from wearing a kilt that it would be impossible to tuck it around oneself and expect it to keep in place, but if one is to wear 17th century highland dress and their kilt is to lift up a little, wouldn't it just expose the skirt of their shirt?

Thank you very much!

Hi! This is a really good question, although I want to preface this by saying that I don’t do 17th century stuff. I do 16th and 18th century reenactment, though, and I think the general concept is the same.

You’re absolutely right—highlanders at the time weren’t wearing any kind of briefs. (I can’t quite say that they weren’t wearing any underwear at all, since the shirt would have been considered underwear.). It’s fully possible to tuck a shirt into a kilt, and the doublet, waistcoat, and/or jacket will help keep the shirt in place, as well.

Theoretically, if your kilt blows up, you’ll still have a long shirt underneath, although if it’s windy enough to blow wool fabric around, it should be windy enough for the linen of the shirt to get blown around too.

From practical experience, though, I haven’t really seen any Marilyn Monroe type wardrobe malfunctions—the main issues seem come up when you’re sitting, or when you’re ‘dying’ on the battlefield.

Eighteenth century reenactors are generally expected to wear modern briefs with their kit, since re-enactments and historical fairs are family friendly events, and we’re wary of accidental flashing and upskirting.

#highland dress#eighteenth century#seventeenth century#kilt
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Our training officers in September: right the first rule of medieval reenactment is be safe, the second rule of medieval reenactment is be safe, the rule of medieval reenactment is be safe.

Our training officers in June: okay so if you're knife fighting with other companies you got to be ready for this *grabs volunteer by the throat* this is obviously not strangle them but then you can just *trips him up so he falls on his back*

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Our training officers in September: right you should remember if you're not fighting someone in armor don't hit them like they're wearing armor

Our training officers in June: alright folks we're gonna do a boarsnout form one shield wall and form one wedged shield wall we're going to run at each other as fast as we can so we can help the guy at the front of the wedge punch through the shields with brute force.

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Our training officers in September: if you get a headshot or accidentally give a headshot both of you two have to go sit out for a moment to reset.

Our training officers in June, after 2 headshots in like 5 minutes and one of my TOs has an actual literal bleeding skull: idk should we take a break? Do people feel like continuing?

#watching that poor man get throat-grabbed was terrifying lmao
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…I can’t stop hearing that one line in The Confrontation from Les Mis as “there is power in miette” which makes the whole song much funnier than it should be

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you CONFRONT javert?? you hit him with the chair like the common criminal??? oh! oh! jail for valjean! jail for valjean for One Thousand Years!!!!!

#les misérables
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You ever think about how unified humanity is by just everyday experiences? Tudor peasants had hangnails, nobles in the Qin dynasty had favorite foods, workers in the 1700s liked seeing flowers growing in pavement cracks, a cook in medieval Iran teared up cutting onions, a mom in 1300 told her son not to get grass stains on his clothes, some girl in the past loved staying up late to see the sun rise.

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there are scriptures all over the world painstakingly crafted hundreds of years ago with paw prints and spelling mistakes or drawings covering up mistakes. a bunch of teenage girls 2000 years ago gathered to walk around their hometown, getting fast food and laughing with their friends. two friends shared blankets before people lived in houses. a mother ran a fine comb through her child’s hair and told it to stop squirming sometime in the 1000s. there are covered up sewing mistakes in couture dresses from the 1800s, some poor roman burnt their food so well past recognition that they just buried the entire pot. there are broken dishes hidden in gardens of people no one even remembers anymore

#this is why I reenact tbh#and also why I chose my major
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If you were the handsome blonde flag bearer in yellow at the Battle of Prestonpans Jacobites Rising of 1745 I’m sorry if I knew you and didn’t recognise you if that’s why you kept staring at me, I didn’t want to wave during the battle and look like a fool

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THIS WAS A REENACTMENT

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Wait, you mean the ensign for the Camerons? I just thought I recognised you off tumblr!

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OH IT WAS YOU okay I thought it was you!!! I just didn’t want to walk over and be Weird in the event it wasn’t! Now I feel like I should’ve came over and said hi :’)

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I kept meaning to come over and say hi! But I wasn’t 100% sure it was you and before I made up my mind my sergeant put me on pickett duty 😆

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If you were the handsome blonde flag bearer in yellow at the Battle of Prestonpans Jacobites Rising of 1745 I’m sorry if I knew you and didn’t recognise you if that’s why you kept staring at me, I didn’t want to wave during the battle and look like a fool

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THIS WAS A REENACTMENT

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Wait, you mean the ensign for the Camerons? I just thought I recognised you off tumblr!

#I’m so sorry if I made you uncomfortable!#I thought I recognised you but I wasn’t quite sure
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