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A surprisingly unsurprising sight at a Tea Party rally.
For his efforts to costume himself as South Carolinian and Founding Father Charles Pinckney, William Barbee, the 60-year-old electrical contractor from Hardeeville, has earned a proud bit of limelight in the Wall Street Journal.
Why you ask? Well the Journal is taking a look at how Tea Partiers may be bad for the political establishment, but they've been great business for the costume establishment that has seen a massive surge in demand for their powdered wigs, three-cornered hats, and other period garb.
The paper says, in part:
Mr. Barbee, of South Carolina, says he always thought the "the re-enactment people were really odd ducks."
But he changed his mind after researching Mr. Pinckney, the signer,
and wearing his 18th-century garb to the nation's capital. In his group,
he was accompanied by a "colonial wife," a friend and female tea-party
participant who wore a long dress and a petticoat.
It's a serious yet quirky story; take a read here.
