Since every historical and/or geographic society needs a Latin motto, we’ve come up with this one.
Audaces fortuna iuvat!
It means “Fortune favours the bold“.
Now, that applies to the adventurism we endeavor toward as well as the audaciousness (note the Latin again) of wearing 100+ year old style out when on a photographic expedition.
I recently attended the funeral of a friend whose mother had passed and he wore full on, but nice and clean, 1880s cowboy gear to the service, including a frock coat. I’d told him I considered wearing my frock coat, but thought it might be too over the top, to which he replied, “Well, you can never really go too over the top.”
Words to live by, so we shall.