Okay, I am going to make the following case:
It is not appropriate to stare at breasts in public.
There are many reasons for this, any one of which is reason enough to convince most rational people.
However, is this rule still applicable at the Renaissance Fair?
To make an analogy, I normally do very little with my hair, and therefore don’t really expect it to get a lot of notice, comments, etc. However, if I spent an hour on it, really sculpting and crafting a look, I might feel a little bit like I’d wasted time if no one said anything.
At the Renaissance Fair, there are many people who dress normally. However, there are many who dress in such a way that their breasts are fashioned into odd shapes and positions that violate most biological laws and physical properties of matter.
Let me put this another way.
I would be a little taken aback if someone were to stare at my crotch. However, if I was wearing some kind of sling on my testicles that bunched them together, making a sort of ball cleavage, and pushed them up so that this ball cleavage was visible just above the waistline of my pants, I would have to acknowledge that someone staring at them was due to the hard work I had done, hard work I would not have done unless I wanted people to watch a single bead of sweat drip down my stomach and nestle in my ball cleavage. Or possibly for them to see my extremely low-slung cross necklace, the bottom of the cross nestling right there in the old ball cleavage.
Now, this is being asked in the form of a question, not as a way to justify me staring at some weirdo’s cans all day:
Is it less rude to stare in a Renaissance Fair situation?
Also, and this is just a side note, what the hell did the less…chesty ladies do in the Renaissance? Because they seem underrepresented in paintings and such. Were they just not painted? Did Leonardo Da Vinci invent some kind of breast implant that we were not aware of because he wrote the plans for it backwards and upside down in a journal?
There are lots of things I do not understand about the Renaissance.