I used to live for the weekend opportunity to dress up like a Confederate artilleryman.

Living history and the recreation of the material cultural of pivotal eras is an enjoyable hobby for the history minded. Some people really get into it, and get hooked on “magic moments” when, for a few seconds, all the inauthentic anachronisms disappear in the smoke and the imagination connects the dots between what the reenactor has studied and what might really have happened. Closest thing yet invented to time travel.

pinoyhistory and http://www.lighthorse.org.au/re.htm may be of interest to you, Wretchard.