Rule reminders - No non-pass people backstage & do not cross parades

Oh. Now this makes so much more sense. Seems someone needs to make sure apprentice cards and FoF cards aren't the same colors in the future so we can sort out who belongs and who doesnt.

Personally if I have outside of faire friends, I don't take them thru backstage areas or pass thru areas on a bet. Why? Because they are not usually in approveable costume. If patrons keep using them and enough people complain - we will lose the pass thru areas entirely.

One of the other big problems that needs to be tended to is when participants don't feel the need to wear their costumes all day and wander in and out of pass thru and back stage areas. This shows patrons that going back there is ok for people in plain clothes. People are nosey.

St. Cuthberts had big problems a couple of years ago with a pass thru that was in the back of their guild yard. We had several rude participants who spent most of their day (working for another booth) in plain clothes use the pass thru in the back of our yard area. They would cut right thru wearing regular street clothes pushing baby strollers and what not RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY like they had business being there.
When we asked them not to do that when they were in street clothes that they got nasty and beligerent at us. Their excuse was that they were pregnant. I've been pregnant before (two times in fact) and it didn't render ME incapable of getting on a costume and running all over faire all day. If it's that hard - stay the hell home. Being Pregnant does not make you incapable.

Because of these beligerent chicks, patrons saw plain clothed people going in and out of a curtain, figured it for a short cut and when we'd turn them away - some of them got REALLY nasty. I particularly remember this set of Maribou stuffed, overly tanned, paisley tapestry bodice wearing girls who were rather indignant that we refused them passage. They felt having on (bad) costumes was enough to entitle them to use participant pass thru areas because they were FoF members and had been coming to faire for 500 years or some such tripe.
You can tell how loving and caring I was about the situation. And i'm holding back additional comments.
It's not like there wasn't a sign that said "actors only". It was there.

I don't know if the rules changed from years ago but as far as I was always told, if you are in faire and you are a participant and will be on the streets in any manner - be in costume.
If you are coming and going during faire hours, cover your ice chest in burlap and keep your costume on. Hide your anachronisms to the best of your ability.

A lot of this sort of stuff has gone by the by. The wandering in and out of the pass thru and private areas in regular street clothes is one of the more obvious leniencies that is being brought to light here. Because of this, we have an apparently inreasing problem with participants seeing street clad (or half-assed costumed actors) using these exit/entries and assume there is more back there, or it's a short cut.

Something is broke and needs to be fixed.

but it DOES say gate pass on it.

Lady Sutherland DOES explain it thoroughly. And if someone lets her know that there is a problem with a few of the confused ones, she will see to it that it is fixed. She is an amazing asset to Faire, and knows how to take care of things like this in a calm and diplomatic way.

Definitely not Frieda. The same thing happened to a friend recently, and that wasn't Frieda either...

I think it would be more than unreasonable to be angry at Frieda for doing her job. I don't think that so much about being perturbed when random dick no. 5 does what they *think* is theirs.

Claire, do you think perhaps next year, that we could curb this sort of thing by telling/reminding everyone to report to Frieda instead? I'd much rather have my pass sent to her (as scary as an experience that is) and have her look at me and go "I approved that whole costume already," than being told off backstage by someone I don't know or trust.