blaincorrous said:
I saw someone at a renaissance festival in a pink outfit and bonnet, carrying a giant teddy bear. Probably wearing a pink diaper cover.
With all the other things one sees at a renaissance festival, you could entirely miss it if you weren’t wondering if “we” were there, too.
Renaissance fairs have interesting things and a lot of people apparently dress up too. I've never actually been to a Renaissance fair, but my friend who is a retired biology community college instructor likes to go to them with her daughter who is in her mid to late 20s. She does see old time dresses there.
A few years ago (we're talking about 5-6 years ago+), I bought a tan colored T strap shoe from the early 1980s from a mom from England. Her little boy, who was preschool aged, wore it a few times. Including, notably, to a Renaissance fair that they had gone to. It wasn't a children's shoe from a Renaissance period exactly, but it was retro. Now I have it. Unfortunately, while I have an enormous amount of vintage children's T strap shoes in my collection, I can't wear it, obviously, because I'm not the size of a child. 😢
I never even knew little boys could wear T strap shoes or Mary Janes until I was in my mid to late 20s. I thought they were only for little girls growing up, partly because in the 1980s when I was a child, I only saw little girls, like some of my classmates that were girls in kindergarten to 4th grade, wearing them. However, I live in the Western part of the USA and things are different. Had I lived in Alabama, or Georgia or South Carolina, I would have known boys could wear those shoes as it is commonly seen with little boys that wear long-alls and jon jons or bubbles, or button on pants that button into peter pan collar shirts (bobby suits).
- longallsboy
