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Dec. 30th, 2006 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
titusnowlToday we went to a little military surplus store in Garland. It's a tiny hole in the wall, and every nook, cranny and crevice is full of dust and ancient army hardware. I found and purchased a WWI tin-pot helmet for $20. They probably had a tunic back in there somewhere, but the odds of finding one in my size are extremely slim, so I'll have to buy a reproduction one that's tailored to fit my measurements (although it'll have to be my measurements with my breasts banded down with surplus puttee-bandage).
When and where will I ever wear a Great War uniform? I don't know. The terrible thing is I want to have TWO - one officer's and one enlisted's - so I have a persona for each of my guns (with the Webley I am a lieutenant; with the Enfield a sergeant; I've actually developed a very rudimentary sort of role-playing personality for each, because I'm insane like that).
I mean, the holster - I've asked for a WWI-era holster for the revolver for my birthday, and I don't mind whether I get a reproduction or an original war-issue - that I can, will and intend to wear at the range whenever I go shooting. The enlisted man's tunic I would wear with jeans because I think it's cool-looking. The officer's jacket... slightly less cool-looking, but I'd wear it anyway. The pants with the standard infantry uniform are decent trousers, but I'd never EVER wear the officer's khaki breeches of my own volition. And the whole getup, all at once - well, when would I ever have a chance to do WWI reenactment? The only stuff around here is Civil War and precious little of that.
I have a terrible urge to dig a trench out in the parking lot and sit in it for photo ops with my new helmet and the Webley.
This photograph is wrong many times over - there's no chin-strap on the helmet so it goes all sideways, my horribly loud modern shirt-collar is visible, the jacket is from WWII in Sweden of all places, and since I have the gun with me I ought to be saluting WITH THE GUN instead of just holding the gun at my side and saluting with my hand - but I'm going to post it anyway.
When and where will I ever wear a Great War uniform? I don't know. The terrible thing is I want to have TWO - one officer's and one enlisted's - so I have a persona for each of my guns (with the Webley I am a lieutenant; with the Enfield a sergeant; I've actually developed a very rudimentary sort of role-playing personality for each, because I'm insane like that).
I mean, the holster - I've asked for a WWI-era holster for the revolver for my birthday, and I don't mind whether I get a reproduction or an original war-issue - that I can, will and intend to wear at the range whenever I go shooting. The enlisted man's tunic I would wear with jeans because I think it's cool-looking. The officer's jacket... slightly less cool-looking, but I'd wear it anyway. The pants with the standard infantry uniform are decent trousers, but I'd never EVER wear the officer's khaki breeches of my own volition. And the whole getup, all at once - well, when would I ever have a chance to do WWI reenactment? The only stuff around here is Civil War and precious little of that.
I have a terrible urge to dig a trench out in the parking lot and sit in it for photo ops with my new helmet and the Webley.
This photograph is wrong many times over - there's no chin-strap on the helmet so it goes all sideways, my horribly loud modern shirt-collar is visible, the jacket is from WWII in Sweden of all places, and since I have the gun with me I ought to be saluting WITH THE GUN instead of just holding the gun at my side and saluting with my hand - but I'm going to post it anyway.
