This is Coming from a Tavern Wench

I saw that someone wrote about Renaissance fairs... Which is a surprisingly interesting thing to bring up with the topic we have this week. I didn't really consider it to be something like Comic-Con, but it easily can be tied into that idea. People do still go to them and, although we have tools like the internet, the people still don't know anything about that era. Conventions like Comic-Con isn't a specific time nor place and all sorts of costumes and characters are welcome. Patrons will go to Ren fairs dressed up like Captain Jack Sparrow when technically, pirates like that character wouldn't be around for another century. There are also patrons who come dressed as medieval (800-1400 C.E.) warriors or even something from the movie 300 (500-300 B.C.), which, again, are the wrong time periods. People who actually work at the fair end up making fun of these people because of obviously wrong era, the clearly home-made/halloween costume (complete with authentic GYM SHOES) aspect of their "hard work," and because they willingly decided to wear several layers of material on a particularly warm day. Ask any worker who is dressed up in full Renaissance garb and they will honestly tell you that they are only wearing it because they are getting paid to do it.