JustRob:
I quite value your interest in and commitment to re-enacting historical situations.
But, with special regards to the Camino, I believe you are going astray.
The Camino Santiago, unlike the comparatively short American Civil War, was for over a thousand years yet and still IS. Therefore, in my opinion there is no notable and especially no single genuine 'historical' attire. If ever, there were thousand different ones of them in the long past, and I hope, thousands more to come in a very long future.
We all know the pictures and scultpures along the Camino, this guy with the stick and the hat and the scallop on the brim of it, and I accept is as a great marketing image, but I think it is not the genuine thing, and should not be burnedin as a kind of uniform. Also this guy with the donkey, what does he signify, 'I am the true pilgrim!' -Bollocks. 'The Venetian' on the Las Vegas Strip is as 'historic' as him.
I accept that todays pilgrims may look very different in their present attire and appearance. But as long as they pursue the same spirit and objective as the pilgrims of old, and as long as they show the scallop shell, I call their attire 'historic' too.
'Historic' is for me when a thing is gone for good, and is to be transfixed in memory in a certain way. That should not be done with the Camino yet.
The Camino still IS, and certainly WILL BE. Quite possible, in a thousand years from now, they will depict pilgrims from 2006 and call their -our- attire 'historic'.
Though, I may be wrong.
Kerryman