#and probably a Franz Joseph body pillow

[elisabeth515]

So the new book is out

And I just-

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Well, honestly, the dresses looked less monstrous than Gotham Memoirs, but here are some notes that I made when looking at them:

1. My guess on the period of the story is around the bustle eras (either one, though I am leaning towards 1880s because quite a lot of them looked like it’s from second bustle era), since it’s a pretty gothic-ish story and you know when they are set stereotypically. However, I found the set designs extremely unforgiving and unflattering (I am very tempted to use the term “ugly” to be honest).

This is probably the most accurate one, seemingly based on some dresses from the Second Empire... the attempted-Bertha looked terrible tho. (Here’s the famous painting of Empress Eugénie and her ladies-in waiting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter for a comparison)

Edit: I really should have used a fashion plate from the UK for comparisons but well—somehow European fashion at that time are pretty similar so I hope you guys can get the idea.

Supposedly, the story was set in around 1870s to 1880s, and people have already ditched the hoop skirts (for a lot of reasons including safety concerns such as catching fire accidentally), so why are you making her wearing a freaking crinoline dress???? The set looked accurate but it’s just very out of context honestly.

This is what she would have worn in the evening. (1884 fashion plate I found on the internet)

And now we got sets ranging from the first bustle era to the second bustle era... honestly if I did not look up the actual fashion plates and read some articles by dress historians, I would have just turned a blind eye somehow. I am NOT going to judge the hats here because they looked a bit “ew” (ngl that tall hat looked straight from “Queen Marie”—basically incroyable), yet, they all looked a bit weird to be frank. I’m going to just let you spot them because I want to move onto point number 2.

2. These AliExpress monstrosities.

Like seriously, are Rococo and 1870s that hard to distinguish???? The dresses shown here are literally something that can be found on Amazon and AliExpress. Yeah, I guess they wanna go on for the Steampunk or Gothic aesthetic but they looked very cheap to be honest.

One thing I noticed is that some of the dresses looked a bit eliptical rather than circular, despite the fact that she is wearing a corset which is accurate to the era of the story. I am really questioning the set designer’s sanity somehow.

3. Also, are you doing Steampunk, Gothic or Lolita? Idk, the game developers just simply putting everything that is considered “Victorian” in it.

Like why-

Those torturing H E E L S and that bonnet-

Is this girl a time traveller????

It looks like she’s from the modern times because she is literally wearing Lolita fashion which was from 1970s Japan-

I would have put more of the pictures if there isn’t the 10 picture limit for Tumblr. But I guess you guys get it.

Overall, I am giving 2 out of 5 for the sets—kudos for some tiny effort on research but the mix-matches are really uncomfortable to me (like why that gibson tuck with that big incroyable hat?????). I rather watch Enola Holmes at this point, at least Sherlock has that Gyula Andrássy romantic side-parting hairstyle lol

#day n of waiting for a Chinese story in this game #dress up! time princess #du!tp #dress up time princess #dutp #I need a drink #and probably a Franz Joseph body pillow #Victorian fashion????????