hank Wrote:
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> Anyway, be very careful with dress codes for
> events, there is a certain type of person who
> loves to prove how great they are by putting down
> other peoples efforts, and they can ruin the fun
> for everybody else.
>
> Hank
Cuts both ways, I fall in about the middle. On one side of it, it's the 21st century and I tend to laugh at people who want to play dress-up and pretend it's 1875 (or 1475 or whatever) again or pretend that their modern monochrome digital photographs of modern people in old clothes look "authentic" for the period (they don't). You aren't faking anything unless you also put period-appropriate humans inside those period-appropriate clothes. Fat grey-haired men playing dress-up as young desperados at "cowboy action shooting" games are among the most consistent offenders of that particular issue but by no means unique.
On the other side of it, I detest ignorance and have little tolerance for arrogance either. I've seen all too many cases where someone becomes agitated or outright belligerent simply because someone else had the audacity--gasp--to comment on his work and point out something might not be 100% correct. Heck I see hints of that even in this thread. That's a retrograde and harmful mindset because without questioning and learning, nothing ever gets better. If critique were ignored then the "Jupiter" at the Golden Spike monument would still be painted mostly red. Pointing out a mistake in that sense is no insult to the workmanship or craftsmanship, especially since such things are so often a case of, "do the best you can with what you have available." Rather it's knowledge to be filed away so that things can be done even better at the next overhaul or whatever, resources permitting. I'm always trying to learn more about a job I do so that the next time I do it I can do it better.
