Silk day dress, 1865, from a 2008 exhibit of 19th century fashion in Huelva, Spain.
Adding two pictures of the same dress I was able to find - wow, what a difference lighting makes!
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Lexie
“I'm wearing a 40s Mexican bicycle straw hat, Rare Bird Aesthetics bolo tie, 40s Hungarian blouse, 50s collapsible hoop skirt, 70s Georgio Sant Angelo paneled midi skirt, Betsey Johnson fishnet tights, 70s green buckle socks, and mismatched 80s Gucci loafers. The inspiration for my outfit came from a desire to stand out and spark joy in the imagination of my fellow vintage lovers. I wanted to find an intersection between psychedelic and clown while also pushing the boundaries of what fashion is ’supposed’ to be.”
Apr 8, 2022 ∙ Chelsea
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Hoop skirt pic!
I finally freed my dress form from the 3D printing closet!...after I had to dig it and other stuff out to get a kitten away from not good kinda definitely toxic materials. (It's in the closet for a reason.)
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I’ve been rambling a bit about feminism lately, not sorry, and specifically about feminism and the practicality of corsetry. Well, here’s a video dissecting some other “stupid” fashions that women used to wear, that might not have been as ridiculous as “performed femininity” alone.
The summary:
- Ridiculous puffy sleeves made it difficult for men to touch women’s arms without permission.
- Gigantic hoop skirks made a personal bubble where men simply could not approach women without permission, and made it possible for women to flash the forbidden LEG at men they did want in their bubbles, so to speak, without too much censure.
- Oversized bonnets made it very, very difficult for men to “steal a kiss,” which men thought was saucy flirting rather than, you know, sexual assault.
- Bustles made it almost impossible to grab a woman’s butt without permission.
- Those insane hats made it so that “respectable” ladies simply could not go out in public without a pointy metal object large and strong enough to be used as a weapon for self-defence.
Just remember that if most of the articles complaining about “frivolous” women’s fashion are written by men, there’s probably a real reason why men, specifically, were annoyed by them. Peformed femininity is a thing, yeah, but women in history dealt with the same shit we do now and they had to come up with their own solutions to it.
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Making progress on my Princess Astra doll as well!
Inspiration:
I’m mostly flying without a pattern on this one. Here was my test dress:
I have so much Star Wars Halloween fabric.
Then a fantastic Reddit friend shared instructions for making a hoop skirt out of zip ties and ribbons!
Also I made the top. Currently working on the skirt: 2 layers down, 2 to go.
Much ironing needed.
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