#costume history book

[professorpski]

A Big Beautiful Book: Scarves by Nicky Albrechtsten and Fola Solanke

The cover of this book is a textile itself which you kind of wish you could take off and wear. It signals that this big coffee table book offers hundreds of large images of scarves organized by themes like eras, artists, textile designers, scarf companies, etc. Each offers a short essay, but the real treats are the pictures. The images remind us of the extraordinary creativity that went into this accessory over the course of the 20th Century.

You see here the lovely palette called “Vermillion” in silk twill by textile designer Georgina von Etzdorf. Then a ribbon scarf from the 1940s whose designer is unknown and whose color play charmed me. Then two scarves from the 1950s:  a rayon travel scarf from the 1950s on Manhattan, bought to mark a trip, from a chapter on travel scarves, and then a Liberty silk scarf which seems to be playing with the TV antennas that proliferated in that decade. It has a strangely technological look.

While we can appreciate the scarves laid out flat like this, their real appeal is how they will look tied around the neck or shoulders. That is when the colors themselves make an outfit. While today we see a super-abundance of cowls, I am far more keen on scarves myself. If you take a look at this book, you will understand why.

You can find it here: https://thamesandhudson.com/scarves-9780500296172

[tooquirkytolose]

The Most Beautiful Woman in the World, and a blind man

[queen-paladin]

disclaimer: yes, I am complaining about cheating in media. Because, yes, writers have the freedom to create what they want but if the morality in creation is free for all forms of media, but no piece of art is exempt from criticism, and that includes criticism on personal moral grounds. I betcha if I said Harry Potter is good, actually, everyone on here would flood my blog telling me I am wrong because of the author's intense prejudice. That being said, I am criticizing cheating in fiction, If you don't like that, don't interact

So often lately I see period dramas where the husband cheats on the wife (ex. Poldark, The Essex Serpent, Queen Charlotte, The Great)...and not only do I despise the cheating trope with every fibre of my being to where I get panic attacks when I consume the media...but specifically with period dramas...

Do these writers not understand the greater implications of a husband cheating on a wife during these periods? More than just the humiliation and heartbreak in the case of a loving, good marriage just like it is today.

In the Western world, probably until certain laws were enacted in the 1900's, if a woman married a man, she was legally his property. She had no legal identity under him. She was financially dependent on him. Any wages she made would automatically go to her husband. Her children were also not legally her children- they belonged to the father. If the husband died, even if the wife was still alive, the children were legally considered orphans.

Women could only rarely gain a divorce from their husbands. In England in the mid-1800's specifically, if a wife divorced a husband she had to prove he had to not only cheat but also be physically abusive, incestuous, or commit bestiality. On the other hand, a husband could divorce a wife just for being unfaithful. Because, kids, there were sexual double standards.

Getting married was often the endgame for a lot of women during that time. Sometimes you couldn't make your own living enough- marriage was a way to secure your entire future financially, with more than enough money to get by. If you were a spinster and middle class, you could get by with a job. But if you are an upper-class lady, the one thing a lady does not do is get a job and work. So upper-class spinsters basically were dependent on their families to get by (ex. Anne Elliott in Persuasion faces this with her own toxic family). As strange as it sounded today, marriage gave them some freedom to go about since a husband could be persuaded sometimes more easily than a father and one had a different home, their servants, etc. A husband was your foundation entirely for being a part of society, and standing up as your own woman.

So if a husband cheated on a wife, that was a threat to take all of that away.

He could give a lot of money that could be used to support his wife and children to the mistress. He could completely abandon said wife for the mistress. And since the wife legally couldn't get a job as he still lived, she would be dependent on any money he would said- and that is IF he sent over any money.

He could take her to court and publicly humiliate her to get a divorce away from her (look up the separation of Charles and Kate Dickens, he would call her mentally ill and say her cooking was bad and that she was having more children than they could keep up with all while having an affair and divorcing her to be with the misteress). And even if the wife was the nicest, more proper, goodest, more rule-abiding never-keeping-a-toe-out-of-line lady in town...as a man, the law was default on his side (look up Caroline Norton's A Letter to the Queen which details exactly that, the poor woman had her earnings as a writer taken by her husband and was denied access to her children from said husband)

So yeah...even if there was "no love" between them (and anytime the wife is portrayed as too boring or too bitchy so He HaS tO cHeAt is brought up is...pretty victim blamey)

So yeah. Period drama writers, if you have the husband have an affair ...just consider the reality of these things and address them, maybe punish the husband for once (*gasp* men facing consequences for their actions?!?!!), and if not, just please find other options and other tropes and devices for once.

[greekmythcomix]

Roman History Chickens: the Succession of Egg-ustus

[artist-ellen]

Kitty (Catherine) Bennet

I really wondered about splitting the last two up... but why not i suppose. I’ve mentioned before how the 1790s were a time of confused/rapidly evolving fashion. The wild in-between of post-revolution and Empire waistlines. Great fun. This sort of gown that I’ve chosen for the youngest two is in that middle ground with the high waistlines, but closer to the fashions of earlier decades than for example Jane’s or Lizzy’s. It has a similar shape to that of Mary’s but is in bright fabrics with cheerful and traditionally feminine touches.

I am the artist!!! Don’t repost without permission & credit! Thank you! Come visit me over on: https://instagram.com/ellen.artistic

[chinesehanfu]

[Hanfu · 漢服]Chinese Traditional Clothing Hanfu in different periods of the Tang Dynasty BY Artist: @末春 & 左丘萌 in Book《 中国妆束-大唐女儿行 /China Fashion》 

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"中国妆束-大唐女儿行" attempts to re-interpret the real fashion of women's make-up at that time with the view of the Tang Dynasty people based on the Tang Dynasty cultural relics found in archaeological excavations and compared with the records in handed down historical materials or unearthed documents.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ 清华大学出版社; 第1版 (July 1, 2020)

Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1, 2020

Language ‏ : ‎ Chinese

Amazon: 中国妆束：大唐女儿行 (Chinese Edition) Kindle Edition

[belle-primrose]

Emma (2020 film)

Anya Taylor-Joy as Emma Woodhouse

Johnny Flynn as George Knightley

Mia Goth as Harriet Smith

I really like this movie! The colours and the costumes are so beautiful! Definitely recommend if you're into romcoms, period dramas or Jane Austen!

[fate-defiant]

i have two, no three fancomics in me rn and it's rotten work it's such rotten work

[fashionbooksmilano]

Fashion-à la Mode

The Pop-Up History of Costumes and Dresses

Isabelle de Borchgrave

Universe, New York 2001, 14 pages, 7 Pop-Up, 20x31 cm, ISBN 978-0789305077

euro 50,00

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Fashion-à la Mode is a sumptuous jewel of costume and fashion history seen through a dazzling parade of dolls that pop up on the page, accompanied by extraordinary interactive apparel, such as removeable fans, parasols, and shoes. The costumes in the book are created by Isabelle de Borchgrave and are based on her one-of-a-kind, hand-painted paper dresses.

With short texts and numerous costumed figures that pop up in three dimensions, the book is organized chronologically into themes: Egypt and the beginning of costume, the Elizabethan period, 18th-century France, the Victorian Opera, the kimono, Chanel and the liberation of women's clothing, and fashion as art (Fortuny and Miyake).

The text is written by Dorothy Twining Globus, Director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Also included are enthusiastic essays by such notable fashion authorities as Hubert de Givenchy, Karl Lagerfeld, Myra Walker, and Sue North.

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[siena-sevenwits]

:-)

[ginkovskij]

i just had to learn how to navigate a national library catalogue online to find a very specific manuscript of the roman de la rose because i needed an even more specific illustration of it

[swashbucklery]

OK I have watched the pilot of Interview With The Vampire and:

1) I’m going to go semi-feral over the costumes and sets alone the aesthetics are: magnifique.

2) It’s perfect.

3) Look I know that it’s got boys I know it’s problematic they are not uwu at all they in fact murder each other in the pilot but it’s also like. Extremely queer in a way that I feel but can’t fully articulate, a beautiful salve to the everyone is beautiful but no one is horny phenomenon of a lot of ~canon media~ and feels really like. Every unhinged Tumblr post about the complex aesthetics of vampirism and romance and desire and and the complexities of queering religious symbolism, yet also they’ve made the choice to have these lads just. Absolutely covered in body fluids at all times A++ gaying.

4) This is a serious question is there a resource out there with timestamps for some of the gore? I am planning to keep watching but I am Sensitive (tm) and I’d love to be prepped for some of the more intense moments. Obviously I’m fine with a generous amount of prop blood but anything where like. Limbs are coming off, organs are being punched through etc, I would love to be forewarned.

[nevermoremonster]

A book cover inspired by Carmilla. I want to try and make more gothic book covers, let me know what you think!

[bee-in-a-box]

Enchanted is my favorite movie so I kind of already knew Disenchanted was never going to meet my standards, but bro omg they could have at least watched Enchanted a few times :/

[artist-ellen]

Caroline Bingley

And for a little bit of contrast a certain Miss Bingley decided to join the redesign lineup. Inspired by a 1798 fashion plate (the only way to be a true trendsetter is to be able to see the future) she's rocking a style and color that would clearly set her apart from the "country" gentry her party would be visiting with on this trip.

I am the artist!!! Don’t repost without permission & credit! Thank you! Come visit me over on: https://instagram.com/ellen.artistic

[filmmakerdreamst]