Enjoy Your Faire Part 2

Stage 2: Next Year

At the end of your first season, if you're pining the loss of your weekend RenFest Habit, then consider yourself bitten by the RenFest experience. If you're reading this, then you might already be a member of a local Renfest "Friends" Group such as Friends of the Maryland Renaissance Festival which is a good way to feed your habit all year long. Another way is to subscribe to Faire Magazine which is designed with you in mind.

Before your second season starts, you've decided that you need at least one more set of garb and you might have even purchased it during the last weekend of RenFest. Having two sets of garb means you can wear something clean both Saturday AND Sunday! If you took notes the previous season then you now realize that being seen at RenFest is as fun as the Festival itself. You should also realize that it's all in the details, i.e., your garb needs highlights and accessories.

Leather pouches, accurate footwear, and learning the who's who of characters at the Festival becomes important at this point. If you've made a clever and distinguished impact the season prior, when the next season starts, people will remember you. With that in mind, you probably want folks to recognize you as your character, so if you add to your garb, make sure it's within your character's . . .uh. . . character.
You get into the discussion about "historical accuracy" with other Festival Playtrons and who's garb looks period and wonder why The Black Fox is always dressed like he's from the 12th Century instead of the 16th.

With less $$ than you put out the year before (unless you're jewelry hunting), your second season at renfest gives you the opportunity to begin your seasoning. . .

Part 3 tomorrow