#Costuming

[jaynovz]

Hey y'all could you help me out with something--

Various examples:

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#polls #Tumblr polls #costuming #thoughts #double-breasted jackets

[energizrbunni-blog]

Last night was my company Holiday Party, and we're doing really well, so it was held at the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)

I was so happy that also included the Styled by Sargent exhibit, of John Singer Sargent paintings and the actual articles of clothing alongside them.

Now, you have probably seen this painting of Lady Macbeth

But have you seen the costume she's wearing??

It's gorgeous, obviously.

But that texture! It's *crochet*

And some knitting

Really simple crochet too; just a chain and single crochet lattice with beads and metallic thread added for this chain mail effect.

Despite John Singer Sargent being an expert painter of fabric (no, really, just look at it), I never knew Lady Macbeth's costume had to be *hand crocheted* for that texture in the painting.

Anyway I'm gonna be making myself some faux-chainmail by crocheting it for the next Renn Faire

#art #not my art #john singer sargent #lady macbeth #costume #costuming #shakespeare #macbeth #crochet #knitting #painting #fabric

[fuckyeahisawthat]

So Paul has that black cloak that he wears for the end of the movie, right? We all know the one.

The first time he has it on is after he wakes up from drinking the Water of Life, in the "we're Harkonnens" conversation with Jessica. He wears it for the rest of the movie.

I never particularly questioned how this cloak showed up on the scene cause like, we get it. It came from the Symbolism Closet. Black is associated with the Harkonnens, sure, but it's also the color of the Atreides formal dress Paul wears in Part One and the color the Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother wears. Black is the color of power.

But then I was looking at this production photo from the Part Two art book:

and now I'm obsessed with the idea of the cloak being one of the layers of Jessica's costume--either the dark layer that we can see under the white/gray and brownish fabric, or the layer under that.

Just imagine her wrapping him up in it at some point, as he's recovering from being mostly dead. It's motherly and intimate and it might seem like comfort. But also she's claiming him, because she won. Giving him one layer of the many many layers of fabric that she's wearing by the end, isolating her from everyone else. Literally putting the mantle of power on his shoulders and making it look like love.

#dune #dune part two #costuming #paul atreides #jessica atreides #wearing mummy's cloak of darkness while i go off to sway the masses

[die-rosastrasse]

Ball gown, 1840-41

Maker: Unknown

From the collection of Wien Museum

#That's the most beautiful fabric I've ever seen #dress #clothing #historical dress #historical fashion #1840s #19th century fashion #ballgown #garments #costuming #historical costuming #victorian era #victorian fashion #19th century #my post #fashion #period fashion #historical clothing #fashion history #old fashion #iridescent #iridesence #fairy aesthetic #fairycore #light academia aesthetic #light academia

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

I was on the Spirit Halloween website and I will say, a better informed public have really made them pull up their socks in terms of extremely cheap and flimsy historical costume.

But I am not here to show you one of them. I shop at Value Village. It takes more than cheap and flimsy and honestly better-than-it-could-have-been to make me sit up and take notice.

And oh all my #aesthetic gothic lesbians, did this one turn my head

It's a

It's a

SEXY PLAGUE DOCTOR

I want to shake the hand of whoever designed this. 😂

#costuming

[sartorialadventure]

#costumes #costuming #maternity fashion #armor #men's fashion #just tell 'em you're cosplaying Ephesians 6:10

[switchbackhyperloop]

I fucking love the costumes on DS9. I feel like the designers were a bit hamstrung by the fact that MOST of the characters are in uniform most of the time, so they went HARD AF on the rest of it.

Ferengi fashion? All style, no substance. It's all about signaling wealth and opulence with no taste or restraint. They want to show off EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME and ebd up looking like tacky little boys who dressed in the dark.

Jake Sisko? Honestly, I didn't quite get what the costumers were going for at first. Wtf is he wearing? He looks ridiculous. BUT THEN I started working around a lot of teenagers, and I realized that teens across times, across galaxies, across civilizations, are always dressing in ways that confuse and enrage adults. Jake Sisko is peak Weird Teen Fashion.

Out Of Uniform Kira? She wants so much to be soft and pretty. So much of her life was spent in hardscrabble guerrilla warfare. My girl just wants to wear cardigans, goddamn.

Out of Uniform Ben Sisko? Ma'am, that's my Emotional Support Weird Jazz Uncle.

Garak? Every bitchy, middle-aged queer man I've ever met, but in SPAAAAAACE.

Out of Uniform Bashir? Peak dumb twink. TIS PEAK, MY LORD.

#star trek #deep space nine #ds9 #costuming

[squoingycritter]

the costuming in npmd is fucking genius

and i don’t mean the lords in black (although i could absolutely rant about how great their costumes are). i mean the “nerdy prudes” themselves.

peter’s outfit is reminiscent of a classic “nerd” outfit. but there’s a reason he dresses like that, one that the character has. and then he changes to a sweater in place of the bowtie and suspenders- because of steph. he still dresses like peter, but his outfit compliments hers more.

i love richie’s outfit- the patterns, the horrible layering- i knew kids like this growing up. and the hair? the sort of greasy, bedhead, scraggly hairdo. it’s just 🤌🤌

ruth’s outfit is nice- clearly they understood the assignment of how a queer person dresses (/lh)- but her whole display is ignored, the audience’s eyes immediately drawn to the head gear. just like the characters, we first see what’s “weird” about ruth.

i don’t have much to say about grace. she’s very put together, very neat. the pastel blues and pinks representing her softness innocence. also the butterflies clips in her hair slowly dwindling in numbers. that’s a good detail.

steph is very cool and alt. the cropped fleetwood mac shirt, the combat boots, the flannel- she understands the trends in fashion. but she makes it her own

TLDR; i fucking love costuming details

Edit: I made a part 2 about the lords in black, please hype it up bc i crave validation 😍😍

#npmd #nerdy prudes must die #stephanie lauter #richie lipschitz #peter spankoffski #ruth fleming #grace chasity #costuming #rants #lords in black #starkid #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #team starkid

[serpent-of-hope]

For anything else you want to say about the new show Renegade Nell, I'm deeply appreciative for its sartorial gender subversion. I love that we get to see Nell alternate between and at times actively mix codes of feminine and masculine dress AND that the response to this subversion is an equally mixed reaction of acceptance, confusion, and an absolute grab bag of pronouns and descriptors.

Specifically, I enjoy the refusal of limits. Nell's "disguise" as a nobel woman is complete, believable, and well received. Her "disguise" as a doctor is complete, believable, and well received. Her choice to stand before the queen in military dress is accepted at the same time as she retains the feminine social etiquette of curtsying (even as she does so awkwardly). What we are seeing is a complete refusal of easy categorization and that strategy of opacity is so expertly delivered by Louisa Harland and is so very queer.

I'd love to see a deeper investigation into the costuming of this show, its historical referrants, and the queer readings it elicits

#Renegade Nell #disney plus #nell jackson #louisa harland #costuming

[dwellordream]

someone explain to me why a netflix film can do better layered fantasy costuming than hotd

#costuming #damsel

[jewellery-box]

1830s dress by La Compagnie du Costume

#costume #costuming #pre victorian era

[ninamodaffari]

Took Alexandria Neonakis' Schoolism class on costuming, and the main assignment was to design the costume for a character in a book, movie, etc. Her example was Tom Bombadil and Goldberry, so I designed Mina Harker from the book Dracula! I tried to make her outfits as close to 1880/1890's designs as I could. Her clothes are of an older style, as she was a school teacher and Jonathan had only just been certified, so in my mind they didn't have a lot of money, and then...Dracula happened.

Very informative class, would recommend!

#dracula #mina harker #concept art #costuming #art #my art #mina murray #jonathan harker #sketches #concepts #concept design

[thehaberdasheress]

Valentine's Day for embroidery nerds

Something I love about historical embroidery is how much the present and the past are stitched together. Valentine's Day is one of those things that's centuries old, but still a little new and fresh every time it rolls around. It is what we put into it, as well as what it used to be.

I print patterns onto interfacing that sticks to the fabric while you stitch. Then when you're done, you just dunk it in water to wash the pattern off!

So here are my new festive offerings:

Visible mending patches: Hearts I and Hearts II

I couldn't decide on one, so why not both? These are great if you want an easy way to embroider little wee hearts on things! They really shine when they're used for visible mending. You can use them to attach new patches to holes in old clothes, and look good doing it.

Embroidery Border: Lovebirds High

I wanted something big and fun, so I designed this one myself. Its figurative grandparents are Renaissance blackwork and Scandinavian Rosemaling. I liked being able to combine an existing embroidery border into a bigger pattern. 7.5 cm (3") wide and 16" (40cm) long.

Embroidery Border: Lovebirds Low

Another original design! I've been making a lot of birds lately. To me these feel like office-worker sparrows that have stopped to kvetch together on a window ledge during their seed break. Love... is on the staff meeting agenda. 1 ¼" (3.5 cm) wide and 40 cm (16") long

And finally...

The apple of my eye, the jewel of my crown, Renaissance Hearts

God bless Bartolomeo Veneto (active 1502-1531), who was incredibly good at painting clothing. Because this one, I could make literally the same pattern. I could just go...

The pattern is 3.5 cm (1 ¼") wide and 16" (40 cm) long.

My Etsy Store has even more designs, as well as some fashion accessories. Shipping is free on orders $40 CAD and above.

And as always, I remain deeply grateful for your attention, energy, enthusiasm, and patronage. I am so lucky to have this business; it's changed my life. Thank you!

#costuming #haberdashery #embroidery #needlework #textile art #historical fashion

[fuckyeahisawthat]

Okay so Chani has that piece of bright blue fabric that she starts wearing as a scarf/headband when she’s falling in love with Paul. At the start of the battle of Arrakeen she takes it off and ties it around her arm. Later when they’re all in the throne room for the final duel she’s mostly standing among other people and it’s not super visible, enough that the first time I watched the movie I thought she’d lost it somewhere in the battle. Which sure would be some symbolism. But no, she’s still wearing it. It’s less visible because she’s in a crowd and because it’s covered with dirt and blood. Which sure is also some symbolism.

Except there is one shot where you can see it super clearly. Because everyone else around her is kneeling. It’s that shot where Paul is standing between Chani and Irulan, facing Irulan and the emperor with his back to Chani because he’s already made his choice. Except he turns to look back at her and in that shot she’s standing in a beam of sunlight and the fabric is visible and bright blue.

#dune #dune part two #chani kynes #paul atreides #costuming

[celebrimborium]

the rings of power + references to women in art

#lotredit #ropedit #tropedit #ringsofpowersource #the rings of power #tolkienedit #tolkiensource #fantasyedit #tvedit #historyedit #artedit #galadriel #miriel #disa #art history #women in history #women in art #costumes #costuming #19th century #humans #elves #dwarves #rop s1 #rop 1x01 #rop 1x04 #rop plus art #* #1k #2k

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

In my research today I found this textile fragment in the Met Museum's collections:

Interesting things about it:

It's coloured with iron earth pigments

It's made of cotton

It's from Peru

From the THIRD OR FOURTH CENTURY BCE

This so shook my expectations of what-where-when that I fell down a rabbit hole and discovered that

Cotton was independently domesticated in the Old World (Asia and Africa) and New World (South and Central America) long before the Columbian Exchange, and

The variety of cotton currently marketed as "Egyptian Cotton" (Gossypium barbadense) is generally grown in Egypt, but it's a cultivar that was developed roughly three thousand years ago in SOUTH AMERICA. Like... Ecuador-region.

(The cotton that originated around Egypt, Gossypium herbaceum, is a perennial shrub that still grows wild, but has largely been replaced by New World varieties for commercial purposes.)

I forget if I posted before about how amazing pre-Columbian lace in South America was? You may not know: I fucking love lace. And that's just part of it. I found a really cool online museum exhibit from Peru that gives a quick overview of how huge the field is.

I found all of this as a side-tangent from cochineal (itself a whole tangent from Slavic folk embroidery), because the world is so enormous and splendid and complicated. Currently debating whether or not to spend an audiobook credit on A Perfect Red by Amy Butler Greenfield.

#costuming