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Period Garb and Costuming
What you wear is entirely up to you. There is only one requirement
for participation in the SCA: wear an attempt at pre-17th century
clothing.
The focus of the SCA covers a wide range of years and cultures,
and so does the variety of clothing people wear. Outfits are made
or purchased. They can be made with period and modern materials.
Some people choose to wear a simple belted tunic and baggy trousers.
Others will go to great effort to achieve
an authentic as possible appearance from head to toe. Most of us
are somewhere in the middle.
 Some people wear styles from many different cultures and
time periods. Others strictly adhere to the clothing that their
"persona" would have worn. Still others will wear an Elizabethan gown to one event,
a Norman tunic to the next, a Turkish belly-dancer garb to a hafla, et cetera. There's really room for everyone's interests.
The terms costume and garb are often interchangeable. However, since
we are trying to portray people of the past, its more likely that
the term "garb" or "Period Clothing" will be used for the
more accurate and authentic the garments.
For those of us who seek to understand people of the past by quite
literally wearing their shoes, replication of historic clothing
to a high degree of historic accuracy is essential. But this is
by far the minority and only enjoyed by those whose fun revolves
around that eternal question "Whatever Shall I Wear?"
All in all, we're people to whom dressing up in funny clothes and
playing medieval is our idea of a good time. At whatever level you
play, enjoy!
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