Historic Reenacting

[ClaireW]

I love doing historic and non-historic reenactments. I founded a pirate reenactment group, and I participate in Victorian, Civil War, Old West and Steampunk events. I am part of a group that performs train robberies complete with shoot-outs on the historic steam engines at Roaring Camp in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Here's a few pics:

Me in my Civil War (1860's) era dress:



Victorian bustle dress (1880's)





With a few of my train robbing compadres (I'm the gal on the left):

[miffmole]

Interesting...do you have to make the clothes?

[ClaireW]

Some yes and some no. The bustle dress (two center photos above) I made entirely myself. The Civil War dress (top above) I did not make. Here is a new one, it was a custom order, but I did some alterations to get a precision fit: