#showing up as a romantic dandy with a percussion cap pistol

[clove-pinks]

I'm looking up local-ish "Rendezvous" events—which is an odd choice of term for gatherings where people wear 18th century through early 19th century clothing, with an American frontier emphasis, and they usually involve things like flintlock long rifles, axe-throwing contests, and vendors who sell period clothing and supplies. Also called "primitive rendezvous" or "mountain man" events. The participants will camp out, and Indigenous American goods from the same time period are typical, like they're basically trying to replicate the aesthetics and technology of an American frontier outpost.

The general consensus is that clothing, equipment, etc. at a Rendezvous must be pre-1840 in design; which is very entertaining to me. One, the designation of the 1840s specifically as the beginning of Modernity, and secondly, the idea that you could roll up to one of these Daniel Boone reenactment-type events dressed like this:

#i mean you truly could argue that the 1840s are the start of the modern world #based on many factors! #but it's so funny to mix 1830s clothing into the buckskin and muzzle-loaders crowd lmaoooo #showing up as a romantic dandy with a percussion cap pistol #shaun talks