#fashion historian

[fleursscaptives]

okay i know alot of people dont like the 1870s and i find that so insane cause have you SEEN the hair

[ophanim-vesper]

FASHION HISTORIANS OF TUMBLR HEADS UP!!!!!!

What do you call this kind of sleeve

[shripscapi]

I don’t usually share my oc stuff on tumblr but I like this one and I worked hard on it so I am going to anyways <3

[sowhatnotcreative]

Fashion historians are the female version of the male war historian change my mind

[ineffable-aaaaaaaaaa]

manifesting the lesbians for season three :))))))

[crocordile]

Happy valentines daaaaay <3

[samipekoe]

favorite kagami fits for vogue

[despazito]

when will we be freed from studios using historically inaccurate hairstyles and armor in favour of something that would look more cool and appealing by today's aesthetic standards

[curioscurio]

Reading a lot of Sherlock Holmes, and trying to draw victorian men accurately will lead you to learning that people wrote on their shirt cuffs often in ink because they were detachable and usually made of extremely starched linen or PAPER. working class men would find them stiff, overly formal, or not worth spending the money on it, but if you were mid to upper class then it was expected that you wear just as much complicated, sillohuete focused shapewear as women. Victorian men also wore corsets, especially military men, to achieve that puffy chest and flat stomach look around the 1820's.

The male corset fad had died down a little around the turn of the century (1880-early 1900's) as women fought for more comfortable and less oppressive shapewear, and effeminate men ridiculed for wearing the once fashionable and even medically recommended undergarmet. However, the male corset in the 1880's was still fairly popular enough to be advertised by dressmakers!

(Forgive me not citing my sources at the moment, but these advertisements I believe are dated around 1880 when mens corsets fell out of popular style but were still available and fashionable in certain circles.)

Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that Dr. Watson, being both a medical and military man... probably wouldn't have worn a corset at the time of his deployment around 1880, unfortunately. ( I know, we're all dissappinted.)

Not that he couldn't wear one if he wanted to! But based on ACD cannon, I really feel that he would not be the kind of guy to wear one. Call it speculation, but if I had been deployed and then shot in the shoulder and leg, wearing a corset would be all but torture on my body. Let alone trying to wrestle an injured soldier out of one while trying to stitch him up. Corsets for military men were more of a fashion statement than a medical device; and even then, it was only helpful for orthopedic reasons (back problems mostly).

It was also around that time that the Women's Dress Reform movement began. Despite the Sherlock Holmes novels being ripe with period-typical misogyny, I like to imagine that Watson would side with the women and medical professionals on this one, in that they were often restrictive, unnecessary, and medically harmful in the long run.

Sherlock Holmes, however, absolutely has a large variety of both male and female corsets for various disguises and probably wears them often. This isn't explicitly stated in canon or anything, I just feel it in my heart.

Sorry if this is all over the place or not completely accurate! I went down a rabbit hole but am totally open to any corrections! Also I think the idea of Watson lacing up Holmes and grumbling about corsets is a funny visual lol

[canisalbus]

you say machete has to be closeted then why's he always wearing them little heels

Maybe he thinks he's a tiny bit nicer looking in them.

[subzeroparade]

slutty waist? the clergy may be right for you.

[fleursscaptives]

some pretty things from my pinterest boards

[ghouljams]

You don't know how much joy I got from reading about Alejandro and Rudy. I'm a wild fucking animal over your writing normally, but Alejandro and Rudy???? Literally screaming. Barking tearing apart my furniture with my bare teeth. Just a couple scraps more??? Who is their darling I need to know, genuinely frothing at the mouth rn.

Yes barking and screaming and biting, I love these boys. No clue who their darling is but boy is she having a wild time.

Also Minors Do Not Interact with this

Rudy pushes your head down Alejandro's cock. The praises he whispers in your ear do nothing to stop you from gagging around the thick length stretching out your throat. They only serve to make you rock against the fingers he's pushed up under your skirts and between your legs. The rough calloused hands of the man kneeling behind you stroke your wet cunt, deliberate and slow, a back and forth that leaves you desperate.

"What a good girl," Rudy coos in your ear, "such a good toy for us." You try to blink some of the tears from your eyes as he pulls your head back, let's you get a breath, your tongue licking at the drooling head of Alejandro's cock.

"Look at you, fucking yourself on his fingers while you suck my cock," Alejandro purrs. You know you must look pathetic, your lips red and stretched around his girthy cock, tongue greedily tracing the veins each time Rudy pushes you down, the shallow breaths you take when your nose is buried in the dark pubes at the base of Alejandro's cock. Your senses are utterly dominated by the both of them. You think you were worried about the wrong man.

Rudy's fingers slides into you and you whine around Alejandro. Your hands grip his thick thighs, feel the muscles tense, as you push back onto the thick digits. Again you find Rudy to be frustratingly deliberate, slow as he drags his fingers in and out of your sopping cunt, stretching you as Alejandro fucks your throat. Apparently having grown frustrated with the slow pace Rudy set, Alejandro pulls back and thrusts into your mouth at a brutal pace. Your head spins from the rough treatment, eyes rolling at Rudy takes the opportunity to press torturously against the soft spongy spot near your entrance.

It feels like you're melting between your legs, slick clinging to your thighs and dripping off Rudy's fingers, you're so close. His hand leaves your head and you hear the rustle of fabric behind you before he takes his fingers from you. You whine again, wiggle your hips for any form of stimulation, anything to push you over the edge, to take your mind from the ache in your jaw, the burn in your throat, the smack of Alejandro's balls against your chin. Rudy presses his cock against your dripping hole and eases you down onto it with a satisfied groan. Your impatience gets the better of you, and you slam your hips back against him, taking his thick cock to the base in one motion. Your eyes roll and you cum on his cock as it splits you open.

"Naughty girl," Alejandro chides from above you, Rudy hums, keeping your hips held still as your walls flutter around him.

"Maybe you don't get who's in charge yet," Rudy mumbles, his lips brushing your ear, "I think a lesson might be in order, what do you think Marshal?"

"My thoughts exactly." Alejandro smiles, and pushes your head down, holding you with your lips stretched around the base of his cock, "If you wants to be full so bad, you can just sit there and take it."

[dwreader]

I love that they had Grace in the puffy sleeve silouette that was more trendy in 1905 (first image) than the streamlined look of 1910 (second). It lines up perfectly with when the family's fortune was in decline as louis says it had been 5 years since his father's death. A wealthy girl of her age would've been in the most up to date fashion but this is a very subtle reminder the family cannot afford to spend lots of money on new clothes anymore.

[elzarth]

Two hundred years is a long time to know a person...

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recently I've been on a european menswear kick and a baldur's gate 3 kick so I decided to combine the two and draw some vampires in my favorite historical fashions. I limited myself to a (roughly) 200 year timespan but fantasy clothing is such a weird mix of eras that I could probably go further on either end

[sewlastcentury]

saw yet another costuber trip all over themselves to not ‘mess up’ the corsets vs stays terminology and this is my contribution to that debate @marzipanandminutiae

to explain, if anyone’s getting confused: conical 18thc ‘stays’ and hourglass 19thc ‘corsets’* are often conflated and people get mad about this. in reality, the terminology was SUPER loose and depending on what language you spoke, where you lived in each country, how attuned to fashion you were, etc. you might call your foundation garment ‘stays’ even in the late 19thc, or you might call it a ‘corset’ in the 18thc. They both mean the same thing. ultimately it’s just a timeframe thing with the terminology and tbh unless you are a publishing fashion historian i do not care if you call marie antoinette’s undergarment a corset because you’re technically still right <3

yes, most experts use these words with the specific meanings of ‘19thc undergarment made in an hourglass shape, often with a metal separating busk’ and ‘18thc undergarment in a conical shape boned with reed or baleen’ etc etc but the moral of the story here is that it’s okay to not remember which is which and correctness depends on the circumstance anyway. don’t be too hard on people for messing them up.

part of the problem linguistically is that the boning itself was referred to as ‘stays’, so you get ‘corset stays’ etc etc through the 19thc as well. it’s basically impossible to mark a precise point at which the changeover from the word ‘stays’ to the word ‘corset’ occurred, and that’s because there was no one point - and even when the youth ™ started to adopt ‘corset’, their elders continued calling them ‘stays’.

Ladies’ Home Journal, August 1893, everyone.

*yes not all corsets were hourglassy in the 19thc, this is a broad generalization