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Based on your knowledge of fashion history and dress construction, to what extent would it be possible to rework dresses from one silhouette to another? I know even poorer people in the Victorian/Edwardian era were expected to be wearing reasonably up-to-date silhouettes as part of appearing respectable, and that people would mend and reuse garments as much as possible. From your knowledge of how silhouettes were created with dress construction and with underlayers, would it be possible to turn, say, an early bustle era dress into a natural form dress without having to just use it as essentially raw fabric? And are there any extant garments with evidence of that sort of transformation occurring? (I assume the feasibility would vary depending on what the changes in style were, as it's more possible to take fabric away than add it, of course)
You're right on with your assumption. It's all down to how much fabric is present, and how dramatically styles changed- for skirts, First Bustle to Natural Form might be easy enough with simple gathering and reshaping, but Natural Form to Second Bustle might be harder. Of course, ruching and gathering and smocking and pleats and darts can hide a surprising amount of excess fabric. And as historical costumers frequently remind ourselves, Piecing Is Period!
Also, you might not be working with a garment from the immediate previous fashion era. I once saw a 1910s dress that appeared to be, based on some very unusual bodice seams in a different color thread + anachronistic armsceye piping, made from an 1860s bodice and skirt refashioned and stitched together. Given the vast difference in fabric yardage, that seems to me like a pretty easy conversion. But they hadn't simply used the bodice for raw fabric, as you mentioned; the front darts had been removed and restitched for a different silhouette, and the very distinctive '60s back seams left untouched.
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softsophos · 1 year
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dearest @aldebaran-k5iii is making me a Castiel Doll, how buff should his arms be? (example images below)
Original Noodle
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Scottish Milkmaid
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Buff minotaur
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tagging @sailorsally for expertise in cas/misha's arms lol
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ariaste · 4 years
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I don't know if you're still taking book recommendation requests, but if so, do you know of any books about vampires that aren't either primarily horror or primarily romance? Like, slice-of-life or fantasy adventure books?
Mmmmmm I don’t know any books, but have you watched What We Do In The Shadows??
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penny-anna · 4 years
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@aldebaran-k5iii replied to your post “anyway some very important questions: - do they use real money in...”
I mean, in the US you can usually get away with making it Severely Inconvenient to vote, so maybe they tell Truman it's an option but make it super complicated to discourage him?
tru but I don’t see any reason they’d necessarily be averse to him voting (unless they really don’t want him to have any real world news?), it’s supposed to be his unadulterated life after all. 
also I feel like if they publicly went out of their way to stop him voting that might incite complaints. even tho nothing else on the show seems to incite enough complaints to dissuade them.
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9000slimes · 9 years
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aldebaran-k5iii replied to your post: i fucking hate snow
I love snow! (by the way this is Banner. I don’t know if you know my new url).
shh. shhhhHHH. SHHH. are u on skype also
and nah i can tell bc the people i follow have their comments/reblogs highlighted in blue ALSO THIS IS A LATE REMINDER NEVERTHELESS youve had this url for like, weeks i think
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Sorry if this is intrusive, but have you tried Watertown Watch and Clock Repair? They were recommended to me by a local jeweler and they're only about a 15-20 minute walk from the last stop of the MBTA 73 bus, so they might be worth a shot. Depending on the size of your clock, that might be still be too far from transit, of course.
No no, I appreciate the advice!
It's a very small clock; fits in my work satchel. But that may still be a rather tricky odyssey depending on how complicated getting the 73 is for me- I already have to walk a mile to my nearest T stop for the train and several buses. It may end up as a car-necessary trip despite being not that far from me geographically.
Curse this anti-mechanical-clock society driving horlogists out of business until only a few are left and they're all very far-flung!
(There IS at least one place in the city proper that claims to repair antique clocks, but all of their reviews are only for replacing batteries/crystals on modern wristwatches. So...disinclined to take my clock to them.)
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marzipanandminutiae · 11 months
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I was looking at the Nantucket whaling museum's exhibit on scrimshaw corset busks yesterday and I had a couple questions I thought I'd send you, since I know that there's a lot of bad information about corsets out there.
The exhibit said the scrimshaw busks likely weren't used, which struck me as odd--it seems like the idea of your wife or sweetheart wearing the busk close to her heart would be part of the value of the gift. Would corset busks be at risk of damage from ordinary wear? Do you know if there's any evidence one way or another for the scrimshaw busks being worn, or not?
Also, the exhibit said that early nineteenth century corsets only had the single busk for support, and it wasn't until the 1830s that corsets started to have multiple, smaller whalebone stays throughout. Is that right? It just seems like it wouldn't work very well, and it seems odd that multiple stays would be used in the 18th century and then go away and then come back in the mid 19th century. Unless they mean that the corsets were mainly stiffened with cording?
I would question most of that, yeah.
Busks CAN get broken while you're wearing them. I have a friend who broke the (wooden) busk in her Regency stays by putting all her weight against the thin piece at the top of a railing. The focused pressure with the weight behind it snapped her busk in half inside the stays. So I guess I see why an especially cautious woman might not use the busk carved for her by a loved one?
That being said...they were made to be used. To be worn next to one's heart, as you said. While one can theoretically break a busk in the course of everyday wear, I feel like it wasn't a universal certainty. So to say that they were never used seems a bit of a stretch.
Now, it's possible they meant that the examples there displayed likely weren't ever used, and that I'd be more willing to believe. Not sure I think that would be easy to determine- what wear would show on a busk, given its placement within the garment? But I haven't studied busk wear patterns, so maybe there's a telltale sign that I'm not thinking of.
The other half is easier to address: it's BS. While cording was a popular method of stiffening corsets in the late 18th-early 19th centuries (and remained so pretty much until the end of the Corset Era), they absolutely could have other boned areas besides just the busk. Sure, "busk and cording/quilting only" models did exist; they just weren't the only option.
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(Short stays, 1795-1800, V&A Collection. See those casings? Those are for baleen bones.)
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(Corset/long stays, c. 1825-35, V&A Collection. There are definitely two bones on either side of the busk, and some channels on the front hip area that could be for bones or wide cording; uncertain which.)
I'll take "interpretation issues that could be solved with a judiciously placed 'often'' for $500, Alex
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softsophos · 2 years
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i know i'm late to the party but music tag game, tagged by @deep-hearts-core!
S - Skinny Love // cover by Birdy
O - One Fine Day // The Chiffons
F - Fool in the Rain // Led Zeppelin
T - These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) // Ella Fitzgerald
S - Send My Love (To Your New Lover) // Adele
O - Ohio // Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
P - Pushin' the Speed of Light // Anne Harlan Prather and Julia Ecklar
H - Heavy in Your Arms // Florence and the Machine
O - On était beau // both regular and acoustic versions by Louane
S - Shrike // Hozier
uuh tagging @aldebaran-k5iii @gothicanglicana @mesopelagicmermaid and @tootiredmotel
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marzipanandminutiae · 2 years
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I have a historical clothing question: what sort of chemise/chemise-equivalent would be worn with evening gowns with short sleeves and low necklines? were there chemises with just narrow straps at the shoulders? how did they stay in place under one's corset?
Oh, there are multiple answers to this.
A lot of 19th-century chemises or pairs of combinations had a drawstring neckline, or were wide enough to be pushed off the shoulders if necessary. Sometimes evening chemises that just had narrow straps, as you suggest, did exist.
I've personally made a chemise from an ingenious design, apparently seen as early as 1865, that buttons over the shoulders. So when I'm wearing evening attire, I just unbutton the straps and let them fall off my shoulders altogether.
As for staying in place under one's corset, the pressure of the corset on your torso- rather than any sleeve or strap over your shoulders -takes care of that. Just be sure you readjust before you take your corset off, if you're not in a situation where nudity is acceptable!
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marzipanandminutiae · 2 years
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Hi! I've been enjoying your posts about Crimson Peak in recent months, and I finally got the chance to watch it last night. I really enjoyed it! I loved how atmospheric it was, the sense of mystery, the intensity of the characters. I have a bunch of thoughts about costume/scenery/film-making choices that went into it, and I'm not sure how to send them--is there a better way than me just spamming you with half a dozen asks, or is it cool if I do that?
Honestly, send as many asks as you like. Or you could do a submission with a bulleted list, perhaps?
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ariaste · 5 years
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Hi! I really enjoyed your Hallelujah fanvid and your essay on the making thereof. I was wondering, do you have thoughts on what scenes you would have paired with the “I tried my best it wasn’t much” verse had it been in the Pentatonix cover?
Oooooooooooooooohhhhhh what a good question. That is my FAVORITE VERSE of Hallelujah, and it is the one that never gets sung and I’m Mad about it.
This might get long so I’ll (attempt) to put it under a cut. Tumblr might fuck me over on this, though, and if it does I apologize. 
(if anyone hasn’t seen my Good Omens vid for Hallelujah yet, here’s a link)(and if you haven’t read the behind-the-scenes essay I wrote about making that vid, that’s right here)
I tried my best, it wasn't muchI couldn't feel, so I tried to touchI've told the truth, I didn't come to fool youAnd even though it all went wrongI'll stand before the lord of songWith nothing on my tongue but hallelujah
Oh god, this verse. You know how we all have one particular verse of Hallelujah that stabs us right in the tenderest part of our hearts? This one is the one that gets me. Sometimes you try SO FUCKING HARD, and no matter what you do, you fail. In relationships, especially, this happens a lot--you can’t make decisions for another person, and you can’t control them. Sometimes the choices they make take them away from you. Sometimes, no matter how much you love them, you have to let them walk away.
I tried my best, it wasn’t much -- This smacks of an Aziraphale line to me. I think that pairing it with the scene in the bookshop when he’s trying to talk to God/Metatron would draw a really poignant parallel, especially that moment where Metatron tells him that the war is still going to happen and you see the moment where Aziraphale’s heart breaks a little and you can see it in his eyes. The moment where he realizes it’s all pointless and that he’s the only person in Heaven who cares about SAVING anyone. He’s tried SO HARD and remained SO FIRM IN HIS CONVICTIONS, and fuck everyone who tried to talk him out of it -- both Crowley AND the angels! And yet, even though he has this moral core that believes in the inherent goodness of the universe, believes that heaven itself is The Good Guys..... they’re not. It doesn’t matter what he believed. They’re making their own choices. There’s nothing he can do.
I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch -- Oh god, and this is such a Crowley line, isn’t it? Hmmm. This is a really tricky one, though. Crowley has several moments here that could work, and that would sort of parallel Aziraphale’s moment from the previous line. Possibly the one where he’s looking at pages of the astronomy book, choosing somewhere to run off to? Possibly two moments from the scene in Rome, one where he is looking despondent and then the moment when he turns to Aziraphale and begins to smile a bit? Possibly the scene in the Bentley when he’s driving away from the burning bookshop and he doesn’t have his glasses and we see him looking utterly fucking wrecked? Possibly the scene in Eden when he turns to smile at Aziraphale (I’d have to find a different smile to use in the Infamous Two Seconds Of Smashcuts At 4:05, but that’s not a big problem). It’s such a nuanced line, I’d have to try several different options in context and SEE them play out in front of my eyes before I could pick which would be most effective. Definitely it’d be a Crowley line, though, that’s for sure.
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you -- I’d have to rearrange one of the other verses in the song, because I’d want to use one of the two times Crowley asks Aziraphale to run away to Alpha Centauri with him (at the bandstand “even if this all ends up in a puddle of burning goo, we can go off together”, or outside the bookshop “i’m apologizing, work with me here, yes? good? get in the car.” -- i’m leaning towards the latter). Crowley is being more radically honest in those moments than EVER BEFORE, he’s revealing his entire heart and laying all his cards on the table.
And even though it all went wrong -- hmmm, possibly Mesopotamia (”you can’t kill kids”)? Possibly Golgotha (”I showed him all the kingdoms of the world”)? Possibly another shot from the “You go too fast for me, Crowley” scene with Aziraphale looking yearning and tortured?
I’ll stand before the lord of song with nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah -- on the assumption that Pentatonix would have kept the big shift to celestial euphoria for the chorus following the FINAL, CLIMACTIC verse (ie: this one, rather than the “Maybe there’s a god above” verse),  I would have been able to use the “We can’t give up now”/”We’re fucked” pairing (at the airbase) HERE, and I would have had to put something else in its place in the previous verse. The other thing I can see myself doing is possibly using the switching-bodies shot here? Hard to say. I would have spent at least two hours agonizing over it and switching things around and trying lots and lots of different options to see what fit best. The thing about making vids is that sometimes you stumble on parallels between the scene and the lyric accidentally? Sometimes you have a whimsical idea and you just try it out, fitting the scene to the line, and it’s not until you *SEE IT* that you realize what the lyric and the scene imply about each other. It reveals a whole new layer of meaning that you didn’t glimpse before BUT THEN WHEN IT’S RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU it seems super obvious. I have a feeling that that’s what I would have had to do with this line. I’d want to preserve the following set of Hallelujahs as a review of moments of their friendship and Crowley looking at Aziraphale before the big throwing-arms-in-the-air-stopping-time thing BOOM KEYCHANGE INTO SOME FUCKIN CELESTIAL HARMONIES, though, so whatever I picked would have to kind of naturally lead into that.
THERE U GO. :D Sorry it’s a bit more sketch-like and speculative than my actual essay was, but as I said before, sometimes you gotta try something and see how it works in practice before you can be sure. :)
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