My scooter

[alysten]

LJ hive mind, I need some help. I have this scooter. It's really neato. It lets me varoooom around the house and chase my cats. But as you can see it is VERY modern, but necessary (at least for the next 6 weeks). I want to dress up my scooter and make it a little less, 21st Century. I still need to be able to move it, so I am limited by what I can do. But I'd like to try and blend in a little for SCA events. Our first event is this weekend for K & Q rapier champions. I am thinking I might start with a bag that I can hang off the handle bars.

Any other thoughts? Thanks in advance!



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Comments

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[unicornpearlz.livejournal.com]

If people ask, say you're sitting side saddle - like a lady

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[etherial.livejournal.com]

Side saddle is largely post-period anyway.

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[unicornpearlz.livejournal.com]

Really? Because I've seen grecian and celtic art (vases, sculptures, etc) where the woman was riding side saddle. And this is from the Dark Ages, and before.

For example: http://ilaria.veltri.tripod.com/sidesaddle.html

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[etherial.livejournal.com]

Yes, a person could sit on a moving horse with both legs on one side since time immemorial. But you couldn't ride (i.e. command) a horse side-saddle until the 16th century. What we think of as a side saddle has more to do with the Victorian social conventions that were growing seed in the 16th Century than with Medieval and Classical sociology.

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[unicornpearlz.livejournal.com]

ooohhh....
Well... nothing wrong with late period (sayth the person who is researching all the things that go into ECD... you know 48 years out of SCA period. To my credit though... 1) the dances are done, we might as well do them right. and 2) This research may be taught at the Society for Historical Dance Scholars meeting in 2012)