MarkR
Premium Member
There has been evidence shown that they did wear coordinating outfits/colors as a show of solidarity. During the Peasant's Revolt of 1381, there were men in several of the villages who wore white hoods with red tassels. Those at the Boston Tea Party were also similarly dressed, by some accounts as Indians or wearing face paint.
The Widow's Sons above are not "presenting themselves as representing Freemasonry." You are the one doing that.
I'm glad that here in Ohio, the Widow's Sons are embraced. They were recently in a parade during Home Day, an all-day event put on each year by the Ohio Masonic Home. I can't for the life of me understand why someone would attach so much importance to the way one group of Masons chooses to dress, while at the same time being a part of the Royal Order of Peacocks, where dressing up in the most absurd fashion is supposedly good for the Craft.
You must be deliberately ignoring the obvious, because you keep raising these clearly irrelevant comparisons. Nobody is threatened by the appearance of the Royal Order of Peacocks (I've never heard of them; do they really exist?), just like nobody is threatened by the appearance of Knights Templars in their plumed Captain Crunch hats (I believe you raised that comparison earlier.) People are threatened by the appearance of the Widow's Sons.