Even if the clothes they came with were meticulously researched. They were also signed out, and God help you if you bring ’em back too damaged. Also: I dunno if I would make this a feature of a time travel show, but an episode of it would absolutely bring the comedy.
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I think that show would actually have an audience.
If nothing else, it would be time travel with research of the past. That alone is novel.
There does seem to be at least a little appetite for this.
“Hi Jerry. Lessee. Okay, late Regency, London, you’re all squared away. But look, I need a weskit. The remaining period literature we have talks about them, but never really describes them. Some sort of men’s clothing, I think. Bring me back a weskit.” … “DAMNED IF I KNOW WHAT A WESKIT IS, JERRY. BUT DON’T COME BACK WITHOUT ONE.”
“And find out what muslin is! It’s probably not religious – look, I don’t care what that reality show says, they weren’t making it in mosques. Get me some of the REAL stuff.”
There’s just a ton of opportunity for misadventures caused by clothing chosen from literary fragments. “Holy shit, Jen, we barely got out alive. Turns out no cowboys walk around wrapped in white linen. I’m pretty sure they’d have killed us – or at least given us a good beating – if they weren’t laughing so hard at the big clothes iron we had on our hips.”