/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Does anyone have any recommendations for books about or featuring historical renecactment?

So far I've found:

This Victorian Life: Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and Technology by Sarah A. Chrisman

Victorian Secrets: What a Corset Taught Me about the Past, the Present, and Myself by Sarah A. Chrisman

Man of War: My Adventures in the World of Historical Reenactment by Charlie Schroeder

How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from an Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz


Now I haven't read Chrisman's books but some of the reviews make me hmmmm. Apparently in her first book she talks about feeling superior to re-enactors, gets mad and talks about wanting to become physically violent because she wore an antique silk dress outdoors which gets damaged in the rain and on a public bus, etc.

>will never get to wear 18th century garb at marie antoinette's hamlet

damn it all

>will never wear 18th century clothing to Marie Antoinette's hamlet

why live