If you're a buckskinner, reenactor or living history buff, how about sharing some info with the group? Example: When I was a buckskinner in years gone by, my Scotch bonnet or Balmoral was my tour de force and when I wear it to a shoot, some folks still recognize the hat and know it's me.

Question:
What single article of clothing tells the world what or where your interests lie?

Choices:
Hat, cap, head dress, or mitre?
Coat, capote, uniform, or jacket?
Trousers, breeches, leggings & loin cloth?
Buck skins?

 

At my ML gun club, most primitive shooters portray a French influenced militia. I show up in full British military attire and shoot the course with my Brown Bess musket.

i would have to say my hat and frock,dont feel right in the woods without them.

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I guess I can't stay 'within the lines' either!
I'd say hat, breeches, shirt, and shoes...any separately or in any combination.
Sparks

being "hair-challenged," I always wear a hat outdoors, but my mocs are usually on my feet too...

Well...suppose its gotta be my
"straight jacket". (just kidding...)

Id say my straw hat with feather...weather Im wearin bibs at the forge, or my leather hunting coat in the woods, Im mostly wearin that hat...
T.Albert

I think the hat you wear makes the biggest statement. It all has to fit together though. But experience usually shows through any clothes or hat

Won't nobody's outfit make a statement like Volie's punkin-colored-feathers-and-flimsies . . . sheesh . . .

It would have to be my hat. With my shinny head need some shade.

It'd have to be my mockersins. Not my white ones, though (even if they're the most famous), but my French Canadians which have scuffed faithfully across this Ozark chert pile for several years. Even if I'm wearin' bibs I'm still all mockersined-up.

And my black-felt, low-crowned, flat-brimmed hat blank. The one that my work mates say makes me look like that Quaker Oat feller. I guess I need to style it, somehow. But I hate bein' fancy . . .

Fiddlesticks

I guess I'd have to say it's my hat--at least it is when I wear my tri-corn. People see that from a distance before they identify clothing styles, and they say, "Oh, a Colonial!"

Dick

I agree with the hat.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by sawbones: But experience usually shows through any clothes or hat[/QUOTE
Amen to that...I've seen some might fine dressed and outfitted folks who wouldn't last 10min in the woods..

Strangely enough...I've gone for leggings,because otherwise my kit could be a working man anywhere in the mid-18th cent.
Steve

I voted coat, uniform, etc [hunting shirt, not mentioned] because I switch from French Marine to Longhunter to CSA artilleryman, and several other roles at different times. The hat might also be a giveaway, but the uniforms are a dead giveaway.

For me it would have to be my wool Botas (knee-high leggings) and black silk scarf that I wear on my head under my broadbrim hat that mark me as a Californio.

Hats always seem to make a statement. Whenever I'm impressed by appearances, it's someone who knows his/her personna, time period, and the season of the year too. It all needs to hang together. And it always bothers me when things are too clean, new, and shiny. Makes me think of the feller used to shoot where I did whose mother(!) sent h is skins to the DRY CLEANERS after every shoot! Haw!!!

New to this stuff but gotta say it would be my hat all my friends say it is awful but hey what do they know they still have to hunt with scopes.

My emerald velvet cape attracts a lot of attention. It's not just "purty", it is lined with wool for warmth.
mattsgirl