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[Ryujin]

The idea that anyone would dress every day as though they expected to get into a quickdraw contest that day seems ... just a bit ludicrous, especially given the practicality issues.

Quite. And Hollywood has had people (sometimes literally) running around in them for more than 100 years now.

 

[prabe]

Quite. And Hollywood has had people (sometimes literally) running around in them for more than 100 years now.

Movie costuming has its own limitations, I wasn't snarking super-hard on that; it's the people who take that as what reality was that really deserve the snark, I think.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Some of the best scenes in S.M. Stirling’s To Turn The Tide, with time travelers from 21st century Vienna to the Danubian frontier during Marcus Aurelius’ reign, have modern historians in the library of a nobleman’s library, weeping as thy examine title and read works none of us now ever can.

I occasionally read the list of lost works of Shakespeare, just to make myself nuts.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Quite. And Hollywood has had people (sometimes literally) running around in them for more than 100 years now.

 

[prabe]

I occasionally read the list of lost works of Shakespeare, just to make myself nuts.

I tend to think about how much of J.S. Bach's music got lost, for similar reasons.

 

[dragoner]

After making that Buscadero style holster and belt I now understand why it wasn't actually used in the Old West. It would be useless on a horse. You're never going to be able to walk quickly in one, let alone run, as that "gunfighter" leg tie is wildly impractical for daily use. Looks OK, costume-wise, but that's about it. I've now modified the old Tandy Leather pattern to make it a cross-draw, which is more period accurate.

Most of the real holsters I have seen covered the entire gun to protect it. When people fought with guns, they carried them in their hand.

 

[prabe]

Most of the real holsters I have seen covered the entire gun to protect it. When people fought with guns, they carried them in their hand.

If you are expecting any minute now to be in a gunfight, why would you have your gun holstered?

 

[dragoner]

If you are expecting any minute now to be in a gunfight, why would you have your gun holstered?

Pretty much. A lot of shootings were ambush style bushwhacking. In California the FD one dept had their station in an old sheriff's office, and there were the oak built in file cabinets, and we would read the records.