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Investiture of Gunther Roriksson and Catriona McManus, Prince and Princess of Avacal
I didn’t take any detailed notes at this one, and I was
pretty tired after
having got in at 2 am after the Mahones concert, so you’ll
have to bear with
me.
I thought Custance looked pretty good in her new Tudors,
which I had been
totally worrying about since Thursday (oh my god, I hope
they turn out okay,
Custance will hate me forever if they don’t!) and Denise
had this fabulous
bright yellow fuzzy wool tunic. Blue had new Tudors (what
else is new?) and
Owen wore some non-Tudor garb borrowed from James. I wore
a blue doublet
and some blue slashed pants, and then I changed into a
silver doublet and
silver and purple pluderhosen for the feast.
I abandoned Owen to his own devices to go judge in the
Arts & Sciences
competition. I judged late period costuming and woodworking.
Both
categories showed an exceptional quality of workmanship.
One of the
entrants in the costuming was Ronya for her Dorothea Sabina
dress (she is my
new costuming god). She didn’t have her documentation
with her so we made
her stand there for half an hour and tell us about it.
The winner of the A
& S championship was Jodi/Johanna, but I didn’t get to
see any of her
pieces.
Owen watched the rapier tourney and hopefully took some
good pictures. Blue
made it to the finals again, so we all processed in and
William Bennett
spoke for him. Then there was court. I won’t say very
much about court,
because it was boring enough the first time around, but
Blue got a Goutte
and Denise got a Jambe, Rorik and Shunzei got Carps, Tygar
got a Pelican,
and some guy whose name I didn’t catch got an Iron Chain.
I was very glad that I had made the decision not to wear
a corset and hoops
to this event, but somehow that didn’t stop me from ending
up in the
bathroom lacing up other people (Shannon, you know how
to do this, come give
me a hand!). People didn’t really get as dressed up for
this event (they
were fed up after having worn Tudors at 12th nite), I didn’t
really see too
many people wearing new stuff. The King and Queen had
some really amazing
garb, but I couldn’t tell if it was Byzantine, Mongol,
or Mandarin.
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