# American Accoutrements **Domain:** Aesthetic / Portable Institutional Life **System:** [[wiki/American Aesthetic|American Aesthetic]] ## Definition American Accoutrements are the portable objects through which attention, correspondence, observation, grooming, travel, weather competence, and preparedness remain available. A bag, pen, notebook, optical instrument, umbrella, razor, or piece of luggage is judged by what practice it supports. Condition and maintenance matter more than conspicuous price. The portable institution should make disciplined life easier to continue. ## Place in the American System American Accoutrements is developed from [[american/American Aesthetic - Accoutrements|American Aesthetic - Accoutrements]] and belongs to [[collections/American|the American Collection]]. Its role is to keep one stable concept available across doctrine, character, comportment, material culture, intelligence participation, and alliance work without collapsing those levels into one another. ## Relationships [[wiki/Material Literacy|Material Literacy]] · [[wiki/Prepared Citizen Kit|Prepared Citizen Kit]] · [[wiki/Civic Pen|Civic Pen]] ## Sources / Provenance The governing source is [[american/American Aesthetic - Accoutrements|American Aesthetic - Accoutrements]]; the wider architecture is routed through [[wiki/American System|American System]].