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Maybe we should stop.
May. 14th, 2011 10:09 amJust a thought I had tonight, mulling over yesterday's discussion (BTW, the point which annoys me the most is that security agents can accuse you of disrupting public peace and people aren't even shocked at the way the law is getting used. Wow. Personal freedom anyone ?).
Maybe we are partly at fault.
Maybe we should stop begging for authorizations to come to this and this place *in costume*. I don't mean to say we shouldn't talk with the place if there's a big gathering going on, with picknick and games and 20 or more people.
I mean maybe we should stop asking specifically about the costume. About the way we want to dress for such and such occasion.
Maybe asking is partly what gets museums to think we are a danger, a band of ruthless scums wanting to tear down paintings with our bumrolls.
Just a thought.
For the record, every time I've been out in costume in the public, I've seen two kinds of reaction : "ooooh, niiiiiice !" and "are they crazy ?". Either muttered when the speaker thought we were more or less out of reach (esp. the second one), or in some cases they came and talked to us directly. None of those encounters lasted for more than a few minutes, mostly it was over in less than seconds. Discussion was always carried in a peacecul, quiet manner, after which each party returned to their previous occupation. I have yet to see any issue where we caused an up-stir because of our costumes. On the other hand, I have excellent memories of interacting with a group of schoolgirls in Orsay (the teacher was delighted to tell her pupils about the way women dressed back when the paintings were created), or a photographer encountered in a park near here, who asked permission to have us pose for him.
BTW, I decided I need to sew myself some rococo skirts with modern prints, because they're way too comfy not to wear in the summer while pregnant.
Maybe we are partly at fault.
Maybe we should stop begging for authorizations to come to this and this place *in costume*. I don't mean to say we shouldn't talk with the place if there's a big gathering going on, with picknick and games and 20 or more people.
I mean maybe we should stop asking specifically about the costume. About the way we want to dress for such and such occasion.
Maybe asking is partly what gets museums to think we are a danger, a band of ruthless scums wanting to tear down paintings with our bumrolls.
Just a thought.
For the record, every time I've been out in costume in the public, I've seen two kinds of reaction : "ooooh, niiiiiice !" and "are they crazy ?". Either muttered when the speaker thought we were more or less out of reach (esp. the second one), or in some cases they came and talked to us directly. None of those encounters lasted for more than a few minutes, mostly it was over in less than seconds. Discussion was always carried in a peacecul, quiet manner, after which each party returned to their previous occupation. I have yet to see any issue where we caused an up-stir because of our costumes. On the other hand, I have excellent memories of interacting with a group of schoolgirls in Orsay (the teacher was delighted to tell her pupils about the way women dressed back when the paintings were created), or a photographer encountered in a park near here, who asked permission to have us pose for him.
BTW, I decided I need to sew myself some rococo skirts with modern prints, because they're way too comfy not to wear in the summer while pregnant.
