Isn't that what PEERS does? I'm not on the west coast, but I thought
they had balls of various periods, beyond the eras when California
was well-populated.
Yes, but not every reenactment event is a ball. There are other things
people like to do. The Greater Bay Area Costumer's Guild has a range of
non-dance events. Neither is ongoing in the sense of one era, though.
That is, if you want to dress 18th century you have to wait for the one
or two times a year there is an event for it.
There are places in the States where silks & satins are appropriate -
Williamsburg, Alexandria, Philadelphia and Boston come to mind.
Yes, but for much of the current US, they weren't.
For
those who could afford it, fashion was no more than a couple months
behind London, as long as it takes a ship to cross with the latest
Lady's Magazine.
True.
Perhaps it seems like upper class 18thC activities do not exist in
the US because people know about them through word of mouth or other
reenactments. If it weren't for the Lumieres list (a Yahoo group), I
would not know it was happening in Europe, either.
In California you are more likely to find a Gold Rush event than an
18th-century one. It's not that people (aside from the SCA, which seems
to be everywhere) never reenact things that didn't happen in that part
of the country. It's just that there are generally a lot fewer such
events. Someone who was used to attending 18th-century events on a
frequent basis Back East, would find them few and far between in most
parts of California.
Of course, many people have a taste for reenactment, per se. If there is
no group for their favorite era in a place they move to, they just
attend the events for the era popular in their new home.
Fran
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