Concerning folk being dead. Don't know about that. As total lifeways maybe but as far as the artifacts left behind well they are there to be picked up and encorporated into a lifeway.

Dress is one of those artifacts. One can utilize cloting as re-enactment and in that case it becomes like theatre costuming performance or you can wear the clothes daily as I do with my overalls-a traditional american item of clothing. No I am not a farmer but I do wear clothes in my lifeway daily so I enact rather than re-enact. I also wear my art clothes wherever possible as well especially in the summer. I have been known to wear my horn hat to the home depot and am often in the pollack raincoat and dot hats as well as the pollack hat.

So dressing up just for a festival or gig (nothing wrong with it) is different than putting it on each day to go to work.

Same with music. I play whistle every day at some point. I dont just perform with it and I am constantly adapting older tunes making new ones from them.

Conrad