#also there's some highly inaccurate costuming in some of these images

[dwreader]

From Fairplay to Azalea

if you're interested in set design this page has really cool images from the company that created concept art for the show. what's particularly noteworthy is this titled "fairplay revamp to azalea" where you see the transformation the space went through as it changed ownership from tom anderson to louis.

before:

after:

when paired with the actual map of basin st. in which most of the luxury brothels were owned by women saved for the fairplay saloon owned by the real tom anderson, it gives us a fascinating look into louis's aspirations in buying that particular venue and altering it from 1910s mojo dojo casa house to the high femme second image. he had to pretend to be a tough guy on liberty street because it was rough and dirty but here?? his moral rationalization in ep2 about bringing people like brick with him to this higher end brothel on a street where mostly all the owners were women is perfectly reflected in the design evolution.

[panlight]

What period dramas (film or tv) do you think the Cullens would like? I think Carlisle might like English Civil war dramas. Do you think they would be interested in how the time period in which they were human is represented on screen?

To me it makes sense that they’d be most interested in watching things from before their own time. Watching stuff they lived through would probably feel like how it feels for someone who has read the book to watch a movie or TV adaption: you’d notice all the stuff changed or left out or that they go wrong. Also a lot of the escapism would be lost. Part of the fun of period dramas is to ‘time travel’ a little bit, to visit a different time (albeit usually a highly romanticized and whitewashed version of a time that most people would not have actually wanted to live in if they weren’t upper class).  Carlisle probably doesn’t remember much of the actual experience of the English civil war as he was a human--and a child--during it, so he might still get some enjoyment out of it, seeing the ‘world’ he came from that he can’t quite remember. I think he also likes to see things set in different counties and cultures around the world for all sorts of different time periods. He’s lived a long time, but there’s still so much of history that he didn’t witness personally, both temporally and geographically. (Amun has very little knowledge of film or television but would probably hate anything set in Ancient Egypt for being so inaccurate).  I feel like Esme enjoys really elaborate, decadent costume dramas, especially from the late 1600′s to the early 1900′s. I think she gets a kick out of imaging Carlisle living during those times and all the dapper clothes he’d have been wearing, and daydreaming about attending some ball with him. Hospital fundraisers just aren’t quite the same.  She and Edward liked Downton Abbey (Emmett did, too).  Bella’s into the Regency period, that whole Austen aesthetic.  She’s gotten more into the Anne of Green Gables vibe post-Edward though.  Emmett likes things set in the 1920′s and 30′s, especially like, mob and gangster stuff. He does a pretty good 1930′s gangster impression. It’s interesting for him to see stories set in big cities from that era since it’s so different from his rural upbringing.  I think Jasper prefers to read history rather than watch it, although when it comes to period dramas he’s most interested in stuff that occurred during his time with Maria. I don’t imagine there’s much time to keep up on the goings-on of the human world when engaged in vampire warfare, so he likes WWI and WWII dramas that fill in some blanks for him.  Alice is always looking toward the future so I don’t know how interested she is in period dramas but like Esme I think she’d dig good costumes from any era.  I don’t know that Rosalie is all that into them. Maybe she is kind of interested in 1940′s and 1950′s stories because it’s a way to see how her life might have turned out if she had got the ‘happy ending’ she wanted. Esme was described as looking like a silent movie ingenue, but Rosalie (when gussied up vs smeared with oil working on a car, of course!) has that sort of Old Hollywood vibe to me. 

[swapnagandhacollection]

Men’s Clothing and Its Different categories

In the Western world, until the mid - twentieth century, the average man’s wardrobe comprised few options. He would have one or more of dark suits with matching vests, white shirts and a selection of dull-coloured ties. After World War II, they found this to be on the path of change. From 1950s onwards, the younger generation of men wanted to indulge themselves and live life to its fullest, preferring less working hours and more family-oriented leisure activities.

‘Women are fashionable but men are not’ is a popular (but erroneous) notion which stems from the presumption that men dress only for comfort and functionality, not for style or fashion, as in the presumed case for women.

Unfortunately, and quite inaccurately, men who are interested in fashion are considered by many to be ‘peculiar’ and probably decadent. A man’s profession highly influences his wardrobe and style. Certain professional fields such as advertising, theatre, architecture and fashion are perceived as being more creative than banking, law, medicine and corporate business. These latter professions are, on the other hand, more highly placed and valued in society than the ‘creative’ fields. These categorized professions have also contributed to the labelling of professionals in the creative vocations as more idiosyncratic, thus less ‘serious’ and ‘mainstream’ than their supposedly scientific, intellectual and pragmatic fellows. In the emerging world of capitalism and political democracy, menswear has been greatly influenced by the corporate culture of multinational companies which greatly emphasize on the look and image of their workforce. A corporate look is marked by wearing suits, shirts and trousers, accessorized with ties in the current fashion trend.

Mens wear clothing can be divided into the following categories

Traditional wear clothing get ready for the wedding season with your finest traditional wear, sit back and start shopping for men's ethnic wear online at Swapnagandha Collection. 

Casual wear clothing can be worn during leisure activities or informal occasions. Examples of such clothes are T- shirts, Jeans, Cargo pants, shorts etc.

Sportswear clothing is worn either while playing a sport or are simply inspired from any sports activity. These are informal interchangeable separates. These clothes may not necessarily be worn only while playing a sport but may be flaunted even while watching it. Basketball T- shirts, tennis skirts, jogging pants etc are examples of sportswear.

Active sportswear clothing are meant to be worn while specifically participating in a sports activity like swimming, scuba diving, hiking, skiing etc. The examples of such garments are swimming costumes, hiking pants, ski jackets etc.

Formal wear clothing is worn during formal occasions related to office or for a specific formal occasion. They can be divided into ethnic or western. Ethnic category may include sherwanis, churidars, kurtas, dhotis and pyjamas. Western category may include trousers, shirts, jackets and suits. However, with the effect of globalization the distinction between ethnic and western is being burled by creation of fusion garments like Jodhpuri pants and Nehru jackets.

Outer wear is clothing which is designed to be worn outside, over other garments. Cloaks, jackets, overcoats, raincoats, robes etc. are some examples of outerwear garments.

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[howtohero]

Fairy Tale Themes

Having a distinct superhero identity is very important if you’re going to be a superhero. You can’t just be stopping crimes as a civilian, stopping crimes is often a crime, for some reason. So you need to wear a whole getup and come up with a whole unique shtick. But that can be pretty hard. You can’t just throw a bunch of darts at a word board, that’s how you get heroes like Cat Vomit Confetti Man, or Pencil Rhombus Mount Rushmore Woman. (No offense to those guys, I know you guys were instrumental in repelling that Planet Doom invasion a couple of years back!) So sometimes, instead of coming up with an entirely new thing, heroes just steal an old one.

If you’re going to pattern yourself after a figure from a popular tale or piece of folklore you need to make sure you pick a good one. For example, you don’t want to run around fighting crime calling yourself The Ugly Duckling. (No disrespect sir, I know you singlehandedly held the planet together during The Great Fissuring.) But at the same time guys calling themselves Hercules are a dime a dozen. (None of you come to my house and punch me! I know how important the Hercules human pyramid was in saving Earth during the Galactic Olympics.) You need to hit that sweet spot of not completely ridiculous and not too overplayed.

You’d also be smart to grab a fairy tale character whose got a similar set of abilities as you do so your powers are thematically appropriate. If you’re an ice guy you can be The Abominable Snowman or Jack Frost (not to be confused with Jacked Frost the ice man who is almost too buff) but you wouldn’t want to be calling yourself Elsa from Frozen Man or Frosty the Snow-Man (yes Mr. the Snow-Man I know about the time you cooled the fires of Hell and freed several hundred wrongly damned souls during Greg the Skeleton King’s war on the living. If you’ve got the power to turn things into gold you might call yourself Midas but you wouldn’t want to go fight crime under the name Rumplestiltskin (for one thing, his whole bit is that people can’t guess his name, and if people can’t guess your name you’ll never be able to sign any lucrative sponsorship deals!) If you’ve got a winning smile you can call yourself Cheshire Cat but you should, under no circumstances, model yourself after dental hygiene folk hero Finnigan Floss. (He’s a sixty foot giant who has teeth the size of cars and spends all his days flossing, the story was meant to teach children not to focus only on one thing and let life pass them by but the dental industry coopted it and turned Finnigan Floss into a propaganda tool!)

But becoming a fairy tale character isn’t just a simple trick to get out of putting any effort into your superhero identity. You need to be ready to grapple with the consequences of such an action. For one thing, if there’s any villain out there who is already aping the image of a character from the same fairy tale, they’re going to automatically become one of your villains. So if there’s an entire crew of Wizard of Oz themed villains, maybe don’t call yourself Glinda the Good With of the North Man. (Tinman-Woman, I swear this is not a callout on you, I have nothing but the utmost respect for you after you singlehandedly, and I mean that literally she had one hand tied behind her back, thwarted a robot uprising.) At the same time though, if they’re famous for being hilariously ineffectual villains, then it might not be a bad idea to guarantee that they move to your town and attempt to commit crimes there for you to easily stop.

Your decision to become a fairy tale character might also inspire fairy tale enthusiasts to take up arms against you. These nerds will point out all the inaccuracies in your take on the character. Every. Single. One. “Ahem, Marry Poppins never drove a Poppins Mobile, she had a magical umbrella this is highly inaccurate.” “Erm, I hate to be that guy (you know that they love to be that guy) but Little Red Riding Hood was not a thirty five year old man with perpetual stubble.” “Goldilocks historically (???) had 150,000 golden locks. I’ve noticed when I observed you while you were sleeping (????) that you have only 135,000 locks of hair, and don’t even get me started on your roots.” So you’re going to need to preemptively block every fairy tale and folklore nerd in the word on all your public social media accounts, and probably some of your private ones too. Don’t underestimate the power of an angry nerd. Some of them might even be so angry, that they’ll try to become a fairy tale themed villain, just to show you the error of your ways. So... if you want to have a little fun with that be our guest. Make some nerd rob a bank while showing you what the real Little Bo Peep would look like! Convince some fairy tale buff that the best use of their time is mugging people while espousing the importance of pronouncing “bippity boppity boo” correctly.

Side note: Don’t become a Goldilocks themed superhero. Goldilocks is the clear villain of that story. Anybody who breaks into someone’s house and eats their food and sleeps in their bed is a criminal. That’s not just right. That’s just wrong. You should avoid taking on the appearance of any classic villains. That’s going to confuse trigger happy police officers who are responding to the scene of the crime. I guarantee you they’re going to shoot the guy dressed like Dracula (or plunge a wooden stake into your chest, which is just like, splinter-city) or an evil step-mother before they ask even a cursory “Which of you costumed ninnies is the superhero here?”

Superhero identities are as unique and varied as the people who choose to don them. And some people are just not all that unique, and for them we have some not so unique superhero identities. The stories we’ve been told as kids are rife with potential do-gooder (and do-badder) identities. So head to your local library, pick up a giant book of fairy tales from the kids section, and then sit there and read it and make all the parents there with their kids wary.