#dress drama

[periodcostumefantasylover]

Guinevere's wedding dress and chainmail veil in Excalibur 1981

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

You made her cry, time to die.

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[gabbyp09]

[justdavina]

Wouldn't you just love for this marvelous transgender girl were to rap her yummie legs around your........ oooops....my bad...sorry. Well, she is wearing my favorite black mini dress and heels! Such a SEXY transgender woman who'd make for a great date in San Francisco! Let's Dance ...Darling's!

[emetitur]

the smallest church in saint-saëns - favourite disco elysium moments

[laufire]

"brothers in blood" was drawn wrong because I know deep in my heart that jason wore the classic discowing version of the nightwing suit. he was there in new york attending fashion shows and entering fist fights by day (early night?) and going tits (half) out to stab people by night (later night). I think the youths call it "having a normal one."

[rubysunnday]

BRIDGERTON 301 - Out of the Shadows

[marzipanandminutiae]

in view of Netflix and a few other networks apparently announcing that they are no longer requiring actors to wear corsets/stays, but framing it as the ultimate in feminist allyship against an Oppressive Historical Torture-Garment (and presumably typing their press releases one-handed, if you catch my drift), I have a few things to say:

1. I presume they will also be condemning Spanx, dieting, weight loss surgery, obsessive exercise, breast or pectoral or ab implants, Flat Tummy Tea, editing actors’ bodies in post, etc. since this is all about promoting healthy body image. ...right?

2. Okay, this one is not tongue-in-cheek: if a costume designer forces you to wear massively uncomfortable stays or corsets and tells you your discomfort is an inherent feature of that garment type, they are lying. All the articles on this cited reports from actresses saying they threw up because of Regency stays or couldn’t eat in Edwardian corsets. And while  I’m sure some of that is giving interview audiences the sensationalism they want to hear, I believe them in general. 

Someone needs to tell them that that’s not normal.

I have worn corsets and stays a lot in my life. I know people who wear them as everyday support garments. And neither I nor anyone I know has been seriously hindered in normal activities by them. There are even photos and videos of women from corset-intensive eras climbing glaciers, playing sports, having snowball fights, doing manual labor...living their lives

 Sure, there have always been and will always be people who find corsets or stays inherently uncomfortable- that’s why it’s good to have many support garment options available for people who need them. And there have always been and will always be ill-made, ill-fitting, or extreme examples of the type- I’m not  saying corsets are always The Most Comfortable Thing Ever For Everyone, because that’s not universally true of any garment.

But these production companies have been hurting actresses under the guise of “historical accuracy,” and this latest pronouncement is just another attempt to shift the blame. 

Don’t let them get away with it.

EDIT: Apparently the Official nature of the source for this announcement is in question, but the gist of the post still stands, so I’m leaving it up. Will edit further if new developments arise.

[theside-b]

Pon Thanapon and Sailub Hemmawich in

THIS LOVE DOESN'T HAVE LONG BEANS (2024) episode 2 - "I want to eat the chef."

[periodcostumefantasylover]

Miroslavas wedding dress & kokoshnik in I am Dragon

[canirove]

My Lady Jane (2024) | s01e04 | 23/73

[wardrobeoftime]

My Lady Jane + Costumes

Jane Grey's white & golden wedding dress in Season 01, Episode 01 & 02.

[cinematic-phosphenes]

THE GILDED AGE S2 Costume Appreciation: Bertha Russell in Green + BONUS: Mrs Fish sipping her tea as she watches the thrilling drama unfold

[tooblindtizzy]

trout trio

[storge]

I'd mistakenly caused the First Princess, Shen Zhiyi, to fall in love with me.

Story of Kunning Palace (2023)

[laniidae-passerine]

in all honesty I hope they don’t announce s4 of Hannibal, not because of any truly valid concerns, but because all the promotional material was absolutely atrocious and I’d hate to see it return