Also, while it's not entirely the maker's fault, I wear glasses and since you breath heavily in the mask, they get fogged up easily, making vision even worse. Any light will also completely blind you. You can barely see anything with it and have to walk very carefully with it. Looks great, sure, it's the main thing that will make people impressed when they see you, but when the site says "will limit vision" it's the understatement of the decade. Now let's get to the real terrible parts. Just don't expect to hold your phone, pull anything out of your belt or do anything useful with them other than hplding your staff. The gloves are slightly difficult to put on and don't fit on your hand well, but they mostly get the job done. The three other open pouches were too small to put anything useful in them so I just filled it with costume-appropriate items like small satchels and a small bottle. I could only put my phone in the knife sheath and my house key and one banknote in the snap pouch. The belt also didn't fit very well and had to get it tailored too. I had to bring it to my tailor for my face to actually fit in. The hood (the balaclava-like thing) didn't fit at all. Same goes for the Smock Collar (just have to remove my glasses to put it on but it's no problem). Not perfect but it manages to lock sufficently on my head (though I have to hold it from flying when it's windy). I'll go over all the items in the costume to tell you how awful it is to wear.įirst, I was lucky and the costume didn't stink very much for me like it seems to have for other people, but that's the only good thing you're going to hear from now on. Let's start with saying I'm a big guy and I ordered the largest size possible. So whether you're dressing up as a Doc from the middle ages or a character out of a horror film, when you enter the room in this get-up, you're sure to see all of your patients run out. Like a fear of spiders or snakes or clowns, the fear of these symbols has become instinctual. It's no wonder that we still see plague doctors as a symbol of fear after all this time, the black death had a habit of visiting places again and again. Personal hygiene hadn't yet been invented so those little fleas were easily spreading disease where ever they went. We should all thank our lucky stars that we live here and now and not there and then. That is until the poor Doc was bitten by one of the many fleas that carried the disease, to begin with. We have to hand it to those medieval doctors, at a time when they still believed that an imbalance of the four humors could make you ill, those masks were probably semi-effective. Turns out, the masks covering their faces may have been one of the only effective tricks in their book. As a result, they looked a little like fancy gothic toucans. (Can you imagine a simple check up when your doctor is wearing this kind of getup)? Their mask had a dramatic beak filled with fragrant herbs to stop the bad air from sickening the physician. However, in the dark ages, doctors hadn't figured out the art of bedside manners and dressed in basically the scariest ensemble they could come up with. Can you imagine what it must have been like during the dark ages? You know, when the plague spread across Europe? If the black death happened today we'd see brightly colored hazmat suits hurrying through the streets.
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