"People consider [dressing up in costumes] weird, but if you go somewhere that everyone is weird, it's just normal," Deshawn Gardner said. That is the sentiment among most of the 300,000 annual attendees of the Minnesota Renaissance Festival.
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RenFest diehards spend months designing and hand-making their costumes.
September 23, 2022 at 7:52PM
People spend months designing and hand-making everything from wizard hats to Viking boots just for the chance to share their passion with total strangers.
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