Here's a vexed question carried over from elsewhere. In The re-Imagined Village do we allow our local Morris Side to follow what appears to be a prevailing trend amongst the Morris Fraternity and black up? Myself, with respect of all such re-Imagined Fakelore & Hey-Nonny-No-No which seem to be well off-kilter with respect to the cultural and social realities of 21st Century Great Britain, and at the risk of cries of Political Correctness Gone Mad, might I politely suggest that there's a lot of other colours to choose from - such as white, as we find in the old Pierrot Tradition (latterly carried on by the Very Wonderful Pierotters) and I believe the colour Green is very in these days with fantasy fakelorists, including Morrismen, everywhere.

Myself, I'd like to see our Morris Dancers masked as beasties. Here's a fine set of Traditional Animal Masks which I think would look a treat on any Morris Side. Or, for something a little more appropriate to our imaginary rustic setting they might like to try THESE. Or how about A Nice Woodland Set? Personally I think animal-masked Morris dancing is a genuine ancient-pagan-fertility-rite-derived-revived-tradition-type-thing just waiting to happen. For all I know maybe it already is happening, and no bad thing either.