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Yet another entry on the List of “Gorgeous Vintage/Period Dresses I Could Plausibly Re-Create Given Enough Self-Confidence, Time & Money (And I’m Lacking At Least 2 Out Of 3)”

• Evening Dress.

Date: 1971

Designer/Maker: Ronald Amey (United States, 1934-1986)

Medium: Polyester crepe, quilted silk satin, cut glass ball buttons.

#vintage clothing #vintage fashion #vintage #fashion #dress #history of fashion #fashion history #1970's fashion #vintage dress #evening dress #ronald amey

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Sheriff Joe Goode: I fucked up somehow with my niece and need to make it up to her.

Also Joe Goode: I should get her a present. Women like presents! Wait, what do the kids like these days?

Sheriff Joe: You, useless annoyance who is dating my niece, be useful for one in your life and answer my question.

Kevin Kaminski: Uh, sure, but FYI, we broke up ‘cause I’m heading to Stanford and she’s going to Parsons...

Sheriff Joe: I am not sure whether to be pleased or pissed off about this.

*scribbling down notes b/c I am going to finish this thing even if it kills me* Hey hon, do you think Sheriff Joe’s the kind of guy who would try to buy his way back into his niece’s good graces by getting Beatles concert tickets for her and her friends?

oooooooooooooooh now there's a question. Would he buy her something because he only understands transactional affection? YES. Would he hate the Beatles for being mop haired pansy hippies? ALSO YES.

Not sure which side would win out, but then again Joe has a Mighty Need to seem like the Beloved Sheriff and Smalltown Authority so would making sure there was a Beatles gig close enough to his podunk town with Satanic magics make him look both Cool to the Youths and like a Stalwart Leader Keeping The Peace to the Adults? Deffo Yes. So he would, on balance. The Beatles would have a miserable fucking time I am sure.

#fear street trilogy #fear street netflix #fear street #goode is evil #goode family #headcanon stuff

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If this is the AU where the 1978 massacre took place IDK anywhere other than the summer camp full of kids (goddamnit Nicky), then I’m picturing Alice chasing after Cindy as the Watson to her Holmes, Tommy trailing along as the Lestrade to the Dynamic Duo, Nurse Lane as Mrs Hudson/the landlady/owner of the gang’s base of operations, and Arnie on the sidelines with the MJ as the audience surrogate.

Ziggy tells Cindy she is pregnant and having the baby. Cindy is determined to find out who the father is.

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#ziggy x nick #fear street netflix #fear street 1978 #fear street trilogy #AUs for the win #cindy berman #the Sherlock AU #whodunit #gdi nicky

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saca kintsugi

#Freaking gorgeous

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Huh. I’d write that if I weren’t stuck in 1860s Civil War America for my current fic. 

Dear @meduseld​ - how do you think Izzy would fare?

time travel: nick&ziggy's son goes back to nightwing 1978 and joins camp to stop the killings.

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#Please help #writers block is a bitch #Especially when researching for fanfic #History nut is going to nerd

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ALRIGHT FOLKS

#Had my finger hovering over werewolves #Then was not-so-gently reminded I’m allergic to animal dander #Vampires it is then

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How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

#71 #Bookworm and proud of it #Should probably read the other 29 I haven’t gotten to yet #And maybe some of the ones I have already just for nostalgia #TO THE LIBRARY!! #(wait do I still even have my library card?)

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Another one to try and reverse-engineer! (Someday…)

La Mode nationale, no. 9, 29 février 1896, Paris. Notre patron découpé (Grandeur naturelle). Jaquette-corsage. Bibliothèque nationale de France

Détail et explication du patron découpé:

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#fashion history #historical dress #Antique patterns #gigot sleeves

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Theoretically, given enough time and patience, I could make this…

But should I? 

La Mode nationale, no. 7, 15 février 1896, Paris. Notre patron découpé (Grandeur naturelle). Corsage fantaisie haute nouveauté. Bibliothèque nationale de France

Détails et explication du Patron découpé:

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#fashion history #historical dress #antique patterns #gigot sleeves #seriously look at those sleeves #sleeves ahoy!

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Oof. Um. I really need to translate the next chapter out from a jumbled mess of disjointed notes. 

Anyway…

Almost the first thing Samuel Goode does when he finally reaches Montreal in 1765, after securing room and board, is get himself baptized (properly, in the Roman Latin rite). 

It is partly to keep to his cover story - a descendent of Maryland Catholics dispossessed and their faith outlawed - and mostly b/c he knows very well what’s waiting on the other side for him and his kin. 

He manages to get a job as a clerk for the new British-led Canadian government, marries a local girl, and starts his own humble dynasty of functionaries and bureaucrats.

Sentence Challenge

A little challenge: pick out your favorite sentence that you've written recently. One sentence. No context. Tag some friends

Tagged by @trillgutterbug <3

It cracks open to reveal an interior bristling with blunt, faintly luminous blue crystals- the ideal shell for a growing Coenobita lapillus.

Subterranean hermit crabs? Living inside my geodes? It’s more likely than you think! :D

#wip #fear street netflix #fear street trilogy #fear street #headcanon #headcanon stuff #Goode Family #goode family tree #Goode Is Evil

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Maya Hawke Plays With Puppies While Answering Fan Questions

#PUPPIES!!!

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The Grand Habit.

         I wrote this years ago, and decided to repost it to Tumblr in case anyone is interested. 

For 100 years, from the last decade of  Louis XIV until the French Revolution, The Grand Habit, AKA, the Stiff Bodied Gown or the Robe de Cour, was THE most formal dress in all European Courts. It was designed by Louis XIV when, as a crotchety old man, he decided that the ladies of the court were far too casually dressed. It was, in the Grand Old Man Fashion, based on fashions from when he was young. (To compare, imagine Elizabeth II insisting everyone dress like its the 50’s.)

Louis XIV’s wife , Marie Therese, in the inspiration for Court Dress, in the 1660’s

The Grand Habit consisted of a bodice, or top, which had boning sewed in like a built in corset. There was also a very full skirt worn over hoops, sometimes drawn back to show a matching petticoat and a long train. It also had lace sleeves (called engageantes) that were detachable and attached to different dresses, as well as a lace edging around the neckline.

Detail of sleeve from a portrait of Archduchess Maria Christina

The Grand Habit HAD to be worn at court, except for the three days before the court traveled, when the women who were traveling were permitted to dress more casually. (Almost all did, to show that they were members of the inner circle.)

Pregnant women were also permitted to wear a looser, more comfortable dress, as long as their pregnancy was public knowledge. When Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette received the Venetian Ambassador during one of her pregnancies she made sure to apologize for not wearing the Grand Habit. If she hadn’t, there would have been a diplomatic incident.

Marie Antoniette in a Grand Habit

When Louis XIV reigned, he would send home any woman not wearing it. Madame, his sister in law, famously said that she wore only Court Dresses and Riding Habits.She said “At Versailles which is considered the royal residence, everyone who comes into the King’s presence, or into ours, must be in full Court dress. At Marly, Meudon, and Saint-Cloud, mantuas are worn, also for travelling. I find Court dress much more convenient than mantuas, which I can’t endure.”

Madame in one of the first Grand Habits

Mantuas were a less formal form of dress,which, while fully accepted in England for the most formal of occasions, was not tolerated by Louis.

M. Garsault in the 1769 Encyclopedia Description des Arts et Métiers, describes:

“The day the Lady is presented to the King and Queen, etc., the bodice, train and petticoat must be black: bit all the trimmings are of lace, net, etc. The upper arm, except at the top close to the shoulder where the black sleeve of the bodice is seen, is covered with two flounces of white lace, one below the other, to the elbow. Under the lower flounce there is a decorated band (bracelet noir, forme de pompons). There is also a border of white lace around the neck-line and under that a narrow black tippet (palatine) also decorated from neck to waist. The petticoat and bodice are decorated with puffs, all of which are made from net, lace, etc., also gold.”“When the day of presentation has passed, everything that was black is replaced by colored or gold material. This style of dress has long been worn and has remained unchanged until the present day for ceremonial wear.If the Lady to be presented is not able to endure the heavily boned bodice than she is allowed to wear a lighter one, covered with a mantilla, with the court train and petticoat. As the mantilla covers the upper arm the top lace flounce, which would not be seen, is omitted. The mantilla is made from any light material such as gauze, net, lace, etc.”

The Grand Habit was extremely expensive, and most noblewomen bought them second hand, especially the black dress worn the first time at court. After all, if you are going to invest all that money in a dress, you want it to be a color that you like.The skirt alone required between 20-25 yards of  very expensive fabric. The top, or bodice, required another yard, plus loads of extremely valuable handmade lace. And then you had to pay a seamstress to sew it all together. And with materials that valuable, you were going to a really good seamstress who wasn’t going to mess it up. In 1787 a grand habit cost the equivalent of 2,000 days wages for a worker!

Infanta Maria Ana of Spain,

The Grand Habit was not as required in other countries as it was in France. Mantuas were considered acceptable court dress for all but the most formal occasions. However, a Grand Habit made of cloth of silver was the usual wedding gown for royal brides, from Marie Antoinette to Catherine the Great.

Princess Augusta, mother of King George III of England, in her wedding dress.

Though robe de cour were always made of rich fabrics, the bodices could be further ornamented with stomachers and jewelry (including jeweled stomachers). Queen Charlotte of the United Kingdom owned a famous diamond stomacher, which was fought over by her descendants.

Queen Charlotte, wearing the stomacher(with a mantua, not a robe de cour)

Brooches were also pinned all over the skirt. Some of Catherine the Great’s dress ornaments still exist today.

The shape of the skirt worn with the robe de cour had always changed with the fashions of the time, but the bodice, except for some very slight alterations in style, stayed mostly the same. (This is very much like The Russian Court dress a century later.) The only major change in the bodice style was a shift in the 1770’s and 1780’s from very low, scooped shoulder-baring necklines to slightly higher, squarer necklines that matched the current fashions

Elisabeth Christine, Holy Roman Empress. Portrait is before 1740

Marie Antoinette in the  1780’s. Notice the difference in  neckline.

Anne Marie D'Orleans, Queen of Sardania, in 1720

The shape of robe de cour skirts, however, did change with current fashions. The first robe de cour were worn without hooped petticoats, as the panier did not become common in France until at least 1720. In the 1720’s robe de cour had relatively restrained, conical skirts.(see above). By the 1760’s the skirts become enormous, but very thin and rectangular:

By the 1780’s, the skirts were not as extreme and rectangular, but they were covered with all sorts of trimmings.

There were also regional differences in skirt shape. In the 1740’s-60’s the English tended to wear a very rectangular hoop. The French wore a hoop, that while just as wide at the hem, was more sloping and less square at the corners.

Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom

The train of the robe de cour could be worn either from the shoulders or from the waist, though the latter was more common. The length of the train was an indication of status: the longer the train, the higher the rank of the wearer.  The etiquette of train wearing varied from country to country.  In England one held ones train up, draped over one arm, as a sign of respect.  In France, despite the much-remarked upon filth of Versailles’ hallways, one wore one’s train down as a sign of respect.

Wedding dress of Sofia Magdalena of Sweden

It was extremely uncomfortable, and disliked by many women, especially Marie Antoinette. It was banned in France by the revolution, but held on in England until 1810, though it did look odd when women tried to wear them with the high wasted skirts of the Empire style.

Pictures and information were sourced from

The Dreamstress

,Grand Ladies

,Isis’s Wardrobe

,Regency World

, and others

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#I love everything about this #Period costume #Court Dress #Historical dress

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Oooh, I had a thought! If there’s ever a scene where three generations of Goode men are in the same room, assuming Ted’s the youngest and Ashley his dad or uncle, who would play the eldest?

So I'm hearing rumors that they're continuing the Fear Street movies, but I think those movies are about the other killers though. Like these movies are spinoff movies for the other killers. Because I've heard one of the movies is about the Milk Man. But these are just rumors.

I don't know who true that is yet.

But if the Goode men come back for these movies, I would like to see Ashley Zukerman and Ted Sutherland as the Goode men again (since they were already using the same actors throughout the Fear Street movies).

I've heard those rumours too! About like spin off movies like Ruby Lane or the milkman. Those would be fun! Me and a few others are hoping they'll do an anthology series but keep the actors in different roles. If not, I hope they do bring the old cast back (Nick as a ghost advising whoever took the book would be cool)!

I guess we'll see though. The movies are pretty much confirmed but we don't know much. Hopefully Ash and Ted get to come back!

#fear street netflix #fear street #fear street trilogy #Goode Is Evil #Goode Family #fancasting

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I love unintentional shoutouts! 🤣😂🥰

Hi there! I’m rereading OaLC again, and I’m wondering if Amelia Tyler’s name was a shoutout to Billie Piper and Karen Gillan’s stint as Companions on the reboot Doctor Who?

It wasn't intentional when I first named the character, and then I realized the names and went "...fuck yes, sticking with Amelia Tyler for the shoutout."

#OaLC #fucking called it! #cackling

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Query to the cat people out there - is this in any way accurate?

I wouldn’t mind finding out for myself but deathly allergic to cats and would rather like to keep breathing.

(@deadcatwithaflamethrower, what do you think?)

#cats #kitty #pets #weird animal idiosyncrasies #cats are adorable #wish I wasn’t allergic

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😂 Oh yes, Kurt is absolutely the trusted (tolerable?) servant type there. Especially as by this point the male-line Goodes are down to just Nicky and Will. That’s it. All of the other lines of descent from Solomon’s other sons have dried up/died out and it took Will being born for Joe to do a double take and be all “WTF is going on? Ok, seriously what the fucking FUCK is going on?!?!” Hit the panic button, do some very ill-advised things, get the Devil and Co going “We are not amused” at him in response.

We all know how his idiot flailing worked out: Joseph ends up dead by Summer 1978. Nicky takes over the Pact. The wheels turn and the scales become balanced.

Can I just go the Danza route and call the niece Emma? Let’s say her Mom was an Austen fan. Nicky inherited the love of classic literature, even if his choice of genre and authors isn’t necessarily to his family’s liking.

Scrawling down ideas for FS fic… Somehow I skipped ahead to 1964 where Will is a babe in arms. Mrs. Goode has her hands full with the baby, her sister-in-law needs a break, the SIL’s husband needs a drink, Nick’s a toddler, Kurt’s the same (& is eating crayons), and Sheriff Joseph Goode is somehow roped into helping parent the most perplexing creature in existence - a stroppy teenage girl. (He doesn’t remember his sister being this bad. Was she? Ugh.) Also, he can too ground his niece. So there.

And then he took it out on Ruby. Was she friends with his niece? But yes this messy family dynamic sounds about right. I pity Joseph’s sister no wonder she turned out…………. badly. No one in the family ever had a chance.

#fear street #fear street trilogy #fear street netflix #goode family #Goode is evil #headcanon stuff #To thy own self be true #Unless it gets you dead #That’s Sunnyvale for you!

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Visual Aesthetics

Writing a history-based fic, even if it’s an alternate history, means falling down the endless rabbit hole that is an insane shitton of research. I’m not even a History major! (Anymore.) 

For example: good goddamn, the 1850-1860s had some gorgeous dresses. I’m drowning in fashion plates and crinolines over here, and I want to wear some of those frocks! Impractical as hell, yes, but beautiful all the same.

And then I came across this old school photo of a woman who looked enough like Lacy Camp, AKA the actress who plays Sam’s Mom/Goody Miller in Fear Street, to possibly be her great-great-grandmother.

So if you ever wanted to know what pre-Civil War Rachel Rikken looked like circa 1960 before the Union County Slaughter, here y’all go.

(Damnit, I want those sleeves! Don’t tell me they’re impractical! 😩😒😕)

#Lacy Camp always playing the evil mother #Let’s have her portray a good guy for once #Pity it didn’t end well #fear street netflix #fear street trilogy #Goode Is Evil