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

[greenness.livejournal.com]

I agree with Skaldic - often dressing up modern contractptions draws more attention to the modern artifacts when the goal is to help them blend. Sometimes this is done well and amusingly and sometimes not so much. And rarely it's done well enough that the item actually blends.

So how much fun do you want to have? :)

I think a quick fix would be covering the knee cushion and draping lovely fabric from the handlebars (around the brake cables, gathered and tied at the bottom of the vertical support, safely out of the way of the wheels. Build your bag or bag-attachment-system into the front of the handlebar slipcover and you're good to go.

Personally, I want to run streamers off your handlebars, but that wouldn't blend.

You could wrap the rest of the frame with ribbon, trim or strips of fabric to disguise the metal, but I wouldn't drape it too much. You don't want to get caught up and trip over your scooter's garb!

[alysten.livejournal.com]

I think for K & Q and coronation I should look proper or at the very least respectable.But for Mudthaw? I could see having some fun. Tasteful fun.

Scooter garb? HAH, that is funny. I never thought of it like that.