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mark12_30 · 12-13-2002, 06:35 PM

What's the stress?<P>Capri-length pants for hobbit-breeches; a hobbity shirt under a velvet vest and a corderoy jacket (brown, having the requisite three patch pockets; thank you Dress Barn!!). Of course, the requisite plain round ring on the chain around the neck. And I can't be barefoot, so I'll wear sandals... Birkenstocks. I recently purchased brown Arizonas to go with the brown cord jacket. <P>Now, in the summer I go to work like that once or twice a week. (Birkwearing Programmer Geeks, Unite!) Even now in the dead of winter I just change the breeches for jeans and add wool socks. So all that feels perfectly normal. But-- for the movie, I'll add a cloak, which I made some twenty-five yeras ago and still have. <P>I think if hobbits absolutely HAD to wear shoes, as in by-law-in-order-to-enter-a-public-place, they'd opt for Birkenstocks; they're almost as good as being barefoot. Except that the straps would eventually wear the hair off of their feet. Still, if I had to loan a hobbit a pair of footwear, I'd offer them Birks first.

12-13-2002, 06:35 PM	#21
mark12_30 Stormdancer of Doom Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars Posts: 4,349	What's the stress?<P>Capri-length pants for hobbit-breeches; a hobbity shirt under a velvet vest and a corderoy jacket (brown, having the requisite three patch pockets; thank you Dress Barn!!). Of course, the requisite plain round ring on the chain around the neck. And I can't be barefoot, so I'll wear sandals... Birkenstocks. I recently purchased brown Arizonas to go with the brown cord jacket. <P>Now, in the summer I go to work like that once or twice a week. (Birkwearing Programmer Geeks, Unite!) Even now in the dead of winter I just change the breeches for jeans and add wool socks. So all that feels perfectly normal. But-- for the movie, I'll add a cloak, which I made some twenty-five yeras ago and still have. <P>I think if hobbits absolutely HAD to wear shoes, as in by-law-in-order-to-enter-a-public-place, they'd opt for Birkenstocks; they're almost as good as being barefoot. Except that the straps would eventually wear the hair off of their feet. Still, if I had to loan a hobbit a pair of footwear, I'd offer them Birks first. __________________ ...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.