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Have you ever dressed up as a historical figure?

Drew Fortune
Drew Fortune 8 months ago

When I was growing up, I had a teacher who would sometimes dress up the part, and I thought it was great. At the bare minimum, he always had a tie or shirt directly tied to his lesson for the day. I have a Napoleon outfit in my Amazon cart, with a gift card ready to go. I think today might be the day I make the leap from the teacher wearing a brown jacket to the teacher who sometimes dresses in costume. 

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  • Rachel Reinhart
    Rachel Reinhart 7 months ago in reply to Marcella Sykucki

     Marcella Sykucki (f668c505-b87b-4700-b1a8-b16ca84974cc),It's always a surprise.  Now they're used to it, and try to guess what it's about.  I use bright embroidered silks and more somber, rough wool to highlight the drive for luxury items in trade, as well as the role of workers in textiles.  In the industrial revolution I let them compare hand-knitted to hand-loomed to machine knit/loomed, and students who stitch share their interest/current projects, and how much time hand-making takes. I love other tangible examples too -  I bring iron ore, limestone, coke, slag, water, a jacquard punch card, a maquette of a steam engine, cotton bolls, sugar cane, spices, Asian-stamped Spanish silver coins, whatever I can.

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  • Marcella Sykucki
    Marcella Sykucki 7 months ago in reply to Rachel Reinhart

    Rachel Reinhart this sounds awesome I'd love to see pictures! How often do you do this? I recently went to Japan and got a nice kimono that I was thinking of wearing but I was nervous to. Maybe I'll do it next year now!

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  • Drew Fortune
    Drew Fortune 7 months ago in reply to Rachel Reinhart

    This is awesome! Looking at Robert Oppenheimer pictures and I guess one could say I dress up as him everyday with my suit and jacket, I just don't have the ever present cigarette in my hand like he did.

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  • Drew Fortune
    Drew Fortune 7 months ago in reply to Chris Scaturo

    You gotta watch out for the Van Buren Boys!

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