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itskubay · 2 years

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Vatanım Sensin (Wounded Love) - (2016-2018) ep.8

A heart without love is a barren country. Nothing grows there. / Leon Papadopoulos.

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periodcostumefantasylover · 3 months

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Guinevere's wedding dress and chainmail veil in Excalibur 1981

#guinevere #excalibur 1981 #excalibur #per #perioddramaedit #period drama #periodcostume #wedding dress #wedding veil #fantasy movies #fantasy #arthurian mythology #arthurian literature #arthur pendragon #arthurian legend #the movie is strange #but the wedding scene is a dream #so otherworldly #and the veil is really something else

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marzipanandminutiae · 1 year

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in view of Netflix and a few other networks apparently announcing that they are no longer requiring actors to wear corsets/stays, but framing it as the ultimate in feminist allyship against an Oppressive Historical Torture-Garment (and presumably typing their press releases one-handed, if you catch my drift), I have a few things to say:

1. I presume they will also be condemning Spanx, dieting, weight loss surgery, obsessive exercise, breast or pectoral or ab implants, Flat Tummy Tea, editing actors’ bodies in post, etc. since this is all about promoting healthy body image. ...right?

2. Okay, this one is not tongue-in-cheek: if a costume designer forces you to wear massively uncomfortable stays or corsets and tells you your discomfort is an inherent feature of that garment type, they are lying. All the articles on this cited reports from actresses saying they threw up because of Regency stays or couldn’t eat in Edwardian corsets. And while I’m sure some of that is giving interview audiences the sensationalism they want to hear, I believe them in general.

Someone needs to tell them that that’s not normal.

I have worn corsets and stays a lot in my life. I know people who wear them as everyday support garments. And neither I nor anyone I know has been seriously hindered in normal activities by them. There are even photos and videos of women from corset-intensive eras climbing glaciers, playing sports, having snowball fights, doing manual labor...living their lives

Sure, there have always been and will always be people who find corsets or stays inherently uncomfortable- that’s why it’s good to have many support garment options available for people who need them. And there have always been and will always be ill-made, ill-fitting, or extreme examples of the type- I’m not saying corsets are always The Most Comfortable Thing Ever For Everyone, because that’s not universally true of any garment.

But these production companies have been hurting actresses under the guise of “historical accuracy,” and this latest pronouncement is just another attempt to shift the blame.

Don’t let them get away with it.

EDIT: Apparently the Official nature of the source for this announcement is in question, but the gist of the post still stands, so I’m leaving it up. Will edit further if new developments arise.

#netflix #period drama #historical fiction #bbc #itv #(those are the other networks mentioned in the articles)#dress history #fashion history #historical costuming #historical fashion #corsets #stays #rant #diet mention #disordered eating mention

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perceptivehands · 4 months

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|| Miss Scarlet and The Duke » 4.04 "The Diamond Feather" ||

#miss scarlet and the duke #eliza scarlet #william wellington #period drama #kate phillips #stuart martin #spoilers #i need someone to write a multi chap on what exactly went down in those two weeks #the domesticity is just too delicious #~#(you want to tell me the man managed to dress himself? or that ivy helped him? hell nah)

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perioddramapolls · 2 months

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Period dramas dresses tournament: Green dresses FINALS- Lucrezia Borgia, The Borgias (gifset) vs Chandramukhi, Devdas (gifset)

Propaganda for Chandramukhi's dress

#period drama dresses tournament #tournament poll #tumblr tournament #polls #fashion poll #lucrezia borgia #chandramukhi #the borgias #devdas #devdas 2002 #green finals #tournament finals

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thequeenwechoose · 5 months

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Alicent Hightower's turquoise dress in 4k

#house of the dragon #alicent hightower #hotd #hotdedit #olivia cooke #perioddramaedit #period drama #hotd costume #costume design #4k #asoiafedit #asoiaf #she has no chill #a pretty dress but it felt a bit strange in that show idk why #4k is creasy again

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historical-beauty-lily · 10 months

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The Little Mermaid (2023) dir. Rob Marshall

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ariadnethedragon · 4 months

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TAISSA FARMIGA as GLADYS RUSSELL

THE GILDED AGE (2022-)

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xiaolanhua · 1 month

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Ju Jing Yi as Yang Cai Wei In Blossom 花间令 (2024) – Ep. 23

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redrosecut · 2 years

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The wedding dress of Elisabeth “Sisi” in Bavaria in TV and Film

Romy Schneider in Sissi (1955)

Cristiana Capotondi in Sisi (2009)

Dominique Devenport in Sisi (2021)

Devrim Lingnau in The Empress (2022)

#Sissi #Sissi Trilogy #The Empress #Die Kaiserin #Sisi #The Empress (2022)#Sisi (2009)#Sisi (2021)#period drama #perioddramaedit #costume drama #historical drama #wedding dress #elisabeth in bavaria #elisabeth of austria #elisabeth of austria hungary

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itskubay · 2 years

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Vatanım Sensin (Wounded Love) - (2016-2018) ep.7

Smyrna is a warrior... No one can stand in front of her. I mean like you. / Leon Papadopoulos

When it comes to the homeland, every woman is a warrior, lieutenant. /Hilal

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periodcostumefantasylover · 2 months

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Lily's white dress in Penny Dreadful

#penny dreadful #lily #billie piper #perioddramaedit #period drama #periodcostume #costume design #victorian era #hands down one of her best dresses

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marzipanandminutiae · 1 year

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the thing about skirts- especially long skirts -being portrayed as inherently impractical is that it completely ignores context.

I wear long skirts a lot in my everyday life. would I hike the Rockies in them? no- although technically one can, because women in particular did for many years. but I’m not hiking the Rockies every day. I’m a museum worker living in a large city. as long as I can walk without treading on my skirt’s hem, and avoid getting it too dirty in a way I can’t clean, I’m fine.

if I were going to hike the Rockies, I would wear something different. just like I don’t wear my Natural Form evening gown with a train to trek to the subway in a rainstorm

situational clothing has existed for a long time, in many cultures the world over. in my specific era/area of focus (Europe and colonized North America during the 19th-early 20th centuries) you get ground-clearing skirts intended for long periods of walking, or even shorter ones worn by women doing serious physical labor. some occupational outfits, like those of Victorian England’s famous female coal-pit workers, even involve a hiked skirt and trousers. but you can find photos of the same women in more conventional attire for the era, because what they wore to church was not what they wore to work was not what they wore to run errands for their families in their free time

so when movies are like “oh my god Female Lead can’t FUNCTION in these skirts!!!” (painted not as a personal preference for the character, but as a Universal Shortcoming of Skirts) and all she’s doing is walking around town in skirts of a reasonable length...head meet desk

#dress history #period drama #costume drama #many long skirts are easier to move in than certain kinds of jeans. I said what I said

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la-cocotte-de-paris · 4 months

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Christian Bérard and Edwige Feuillère at a costume fitting for Jean Cocteau's play L'Aigle à deux têtes, atelier Irène Karinska, Paris, c. October 1946.