...I was right!
Chasing Freedom takes my advice (and looks smashing while doing it!)
When I first reviewed the Dragon Leatherworks Pistol Pouch (holy smokes, was it really a year and a half ago?!?!), I commented that it would be perfect for Renaissance Faires. I even wore it to a small Faire in New Hampshire last year. Nice to see one of my blogkids actually take my advice! :)
Now, if only I could get my own children to start listening to me...
That is all.
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Wonder if that would work for Nancy R.'s Colonial Era Re-Enacting? Brown Bess as Primary, Springfield Xd as Back up...
Probably about as well as it would work with me at and SCA event. Dagger primary, XD.45 backup.
I need to get one of those.
"Now, if only I could get my own children to start listening to me...
BWAHAHAHAHA Never gonna happen.
Sean, I hope you do order one, they're too nice to pass up on. No one takes a second look except to ask who made it.
Oh I like that.....
Hmmm. . . just how many of your blog children are attractive females? {Spock eyebrow}
{chuckle}
Les -- nancy can probably best sew herself something like "Thunderwear", with any old nylon holster in it.
18th Century ladies pockets are rather large bags worn on a tie around the waist under the petticoats -- but you can;t just use an off teh shelf Thunderwear with teh wide velcro strap, as the ties are often visible, along with the ties that hold the skirts on. (Yes, the skirts are tied on seperately, like a doubled apron.)
Since the tie wraps around the torso over the stays (what Hollywood insists on incorrectly calling a "corset" * ), the vertical boning will keep the tie from cutting.
So you can use period-appropriate ties, and the modern-looking holster part is well hidden under the front petticoats, with plenty of room for a gun pouch, a mag pouch, and a small flat pocket inside the mag pouch for permit and required ID.
* Corsets are more 19th Century and beyond -- the fashionable ideal figure changed, as did the cut of ladies clothing, so the idea went from "a small inverted cone on top of a larger cone" that emphasized hips to "curvy hourglass" to emphasize waist vs. hip & breast ratio; thus, tightlacing pops up around 1840.
Stays primarily improve posture and create the idealized "inverted cone" straight line look while corsets generally are more focused on breast support and small waist. According to ladies who should know, properly fited stays are not uncomfortable -- more like a lifting belt than the extreme Bod Mod corsets most people think of as corsets.
A workable alternative for me is Wilderness Tactical's Safepacker Concealment Holster, available in several sizes to exactly fit your weapon. The weapon and spare magazines or speedloaders are completely covered within a squared off black nylon closed cell neoprene padded pouch with a flap securely closed by nylon fastener hardware. It can be worn on your belt, carried with a shoulder strap, mounted on your seat belt while driving, or even with the top flag tucked between your bed's mattress and box spring. In your hand it looks like you are carrying an organizer. I jokingly refer to mine as my "man purse".
The J-frame model holds the pistol with black rubber Pachmyr grips and two stacked Safariland 5-round Speedloaders (push front of rounds into cylinder to quickly reload) in the main compartment, and a Bianchi Speedstrip holding another six rounds in the flap compartment "just in case". Once the flap is opened, a hook and loop fastener along one side adjacent to the revolver's top strap facilitates quick withdrawal and presentation of the weapon.
See www.thewilderness.com or several of their distributors for more information.
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