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Hey students, here’s a pro tip: do not write an email to your prof while you’re seriously sick.

Signed, a person who somehow came up with “dear hello, I am sick and not sure if I’ll be alive to come tomorrow and I’m sorry, best slutantions, [name]”.

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i had a restful and restorative saturday where i slipped all social obligations and assembled a wonky future wall hanging. i want to have a hand quilting project (see second image for quilting ideas) and this is a nice portable 2'x3' size. i think it will end up being ugly but that's okay.

this was my first time piecing blocks with curves! i was very brave! also all the dark blue is slightly stretchy corduroy and it is nigh unironable and this sucker needs to be steamed

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sure whatever. why not

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25 cents extra for the razzle dazzle the dolls may bring to your life

Only cowards wanna save that quarter

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Centrist dom be like "oh you've been a naughty little boy, haven't you? But in the interests of decorum, I'm going to allow it."

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i don't think we can cognitive behavioural therapy our way out of this one boys

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I really like the edwardian fashion of 1900-1910 and want to make some patterns of clothes I could wear with those elements as a little project for myself. What elements could I incorporate to make it obvious of the time influence? I'm partial to the pigeon chest illusion but don't know if there are other things I should try

Sorry if this doesn't make sense it's 4am. I love your blog!

Thank you so much! I'm glad you're enjoying.

I'm assuming you mean you want to make clothing for everyday use? Edwardian working/middle class day wear and sportswear are probably a good sources to look to, since those were practical and not too expensive and elaborate for everyday clothing today either. It also sounds like you're not planning to do like a full as close to historical as possible Edwardian look, with like all the supporting layers etc? To get the Edwardian look exactly right you would need of course corset, petticoat and some padding, and all the other undergarments. But if you're going for a more history bounding look that's not necessarily trying to be super historical, you can definitely get pretty close with the right cuts. The first ever historical clothing I made was an Edwardian walking skirt, which did sell the look surprisingly well, even though it was not at all well made. I'll probably pull it apart and resew it once I get the change.

Shirtwaist was the stable of casual women's wear, worn but working women, for sports, and for casual day use. They came in many different forms, they could be very plain and very much following the men's styles (except with the fashionable silhouette for women - pigeon chest and full sleeves) or very elaborate with tons of lace. Very high neckline fashionable especially early in the century. Pigeon chest was achieved with the corset and corset cover (that could have ruffles to fill the chest or be just gathered well at the chest), but you do get pretty close with the cut and gathering of Edwardian shirtwaist. Here's couple of examples. The more masculine styles often had either cravat, tie or a bow, like the first two examples. (The first example is a photo from around 1910, possibly a little after 1910.)

High waisted bottom was important part of the look on it's own but also to highlight the pigeon chest. A simple skirt with high waist and princess cut was used often with a shirtwaist, for walking dress and many sports. Here's couple of walking skirts (first is probably an upper class promenade skirt as it has such a long hem). They were very fitted at the waist, where they could rise very high and quite straight at the front and much fuller at the back. The shape of the skirt is usually more fitted around hips and flares towards the hem.

The sports skirt was roughly the same shape, though usually shorter (sometimes quite short) and less fitted. The waistline is also at the natural waist instead of above it since fitted very high waist hinders movements a bit. Here's some examples. First tennis and golf wear, then hicking gear, more tennis wear and finally croquet wear.

A fairly popular version of the skirt was also a pleated skirt, where the pleats are sewn down around the hips to get the silhouette where it's closer fitted on hips and flares at the hem. Here's couple of examples of that.

Another option with shirtwaist is the split skirt, or pantaloon skirt - trousers basically. They were worn for riding a bike mostly. Split skirt is trousers, but made to look like a skirt with the fashionable silhouette. They sometimes had a detachable panel at the front that could be put there once you got off the bike so it looks very much like a skirt. Here's first an example, where the split is concealed behind the front panel sort of. And then one with detachable front panel pictured from front and back.

For a casual Edwardian outerwear the option that highlight the Edwardianness is imo bolero. It captures the high waisted pigeon chest look better than longer jackets (which were used as seen in some of the examples. The two of the walking dresses above have such a bolero. Here's one fairly simple example of an extant garment.

One last accessory that helps sell that look is the corset belt or Swish waist, which could be basically a decorative underboob corset worn over clothes or a narrow belt made from fabric with a basque or pointed waistline. This changed with fashionable silhouette (earlier in the decade they were generally more narrow and later generally more wide but there's overlap too) and the specific style. With the corset belt, you can achieve the overtly high waisted silhouette with a skirt that has natural waistline and highlight the waist as well. Here's several different styles of varying widths illustrated.

Lastly here's couple of rough patterns of Edwardian walking skirts, which I used to pattern that walking skirt I made years ago (I like to always pattern myself, which probably is not the smartest choice when I was a beginner and likely contributed to the walking skirt not being so well made).

Hopefully this answered your question and you get some use out of this! And good luck with your sewing!

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idk who needs to hear this today but you don't have to marry a man if you don't want to

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US authorities have turned to Europe for help with the country's severe egg shortage. The shortfall is due to bird flu, which has plagued the United States for several years.

The Finnish Poultry Association says it has been contacted about exporting eggs to the US. The organisation's executive director, Veera Lehtilä, told Yle on Saturday that exporting eggs does not seem to be possible at the moment because no market access negotiations have been held with US authorities. This can be a drawn-out process involving extensive inspections and studies.

According to the Danish magazine AgriWatch, the US has also requested eggs from Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands.

One of Sweden’s biggest egg producers, Kronägg, told the daily Aftonbladet that it is unlikely to export eggs to the US, saying it would be difficult due to various export restrictions. Meanwhile, there is also an egg shortage in Europe.

(full article)

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the white-cheeked cotinga is a passerine bird native to the andes mountains in west-central peru, thriving in high-altitude woodland habitat. they have an oddly specific diet almost entirely consisting of mistletoe berries. their decreasing population is threatened by habitat destruction in much of their natural range, and as such are considered vulnerable by some conservation groups.

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my mom is playin fuckn animal crossing in real life

she got this painting for $75 in an old case at an antique market shes been going to for years, and she thought it looks really beautiful, so she sent an email to a local art center to have it appraised

and now she has an art conservator in her emails making a plan to have her come bring it in to be appraised as a genuine Hokusai wood block print from over a hundred of years ago

thats so fucked up to me. my mom went fuckin shopping at Crazy Redd's

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margaritaville, the song, and margaritaville, the restaurant and resort empire, fascinate me because the former seems to warn against the lifestyle that the latter perpetuates

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incredibly obsessed with ivan pokidyshev’s work. i believe these are all from his shining man series