What does SCA mean in reference to medieval and rennaissance clothing?
People in the SCA refer to their clothing as garb. It is an attempt at creating clothing that could have been worn in the middle ages and renaissance based upon historical documentation. The difference between clothing generally worn at Renaissance Faires and SCA events is that Ren. Faire clothing is more fantasy and less historical, while the SCA garb is closer to being historically accurate, based upon what we know from archeological digs, surviving garments, period documents, and as depicted in art. SCA members do not exactly reenact stuff, like the civil war folks do for example, but instead RE-CREATE things as they could have been. Battles and jousts are not scripted and there can be a different winner each time.
