Costumer, sculptor, and ADHD hobgoblin. Welcome to an inconsistent catalogue of my work and interests. Moth capes are not available for sale or commission, sorry!
honestly people are desperate for there to be an ADHD equivalent of everything autistic people experience and i don't get it
autism as a diagnosis is very defined by how you affect other people....and we don't have time to unpack that rn, but it means that the idea of "masking" symptoms such that you don't noticeably affect people in those ways is like. a concept that makes sense
ADHD symptoms are largely defined by how the condition affects the patient, not the people around them. so i think claiming to "mask" your ADHD symptoms is like....weird
at best, you are describing using coping strategies that help you with objectively dysfunctional symptoms that predominantly have a negative effect on you as an individual
i don't think that's analogous to having to hide value-neutral symptoms from other people to avoid being unpersoned
Autism and ADHD are distinct enough conditions that I do think it's weird to try forcing a 1-to-1 correspondance between them. (Which apparently people are doing? I don't follow these groups/trends enough to really understand that part, but I gather it's annoying)
That said, Autism is far from the only psych diagnosis overly concerned with how you affect other people, and I don't think it's accurate to frame ADHD as a polar opposite primarily defined by patients' needs. Our understanding of it is thankfully starting to shift towards this, especially when it comes to adult diagnoses. But with kids the main criteria still seems to be how disruptive your parents and teachers find you. And for a long time that was the dominant understanding of ADHD. It's kind of baked into the name. The Doesn't Listen Quietly and Sit Still Enough disorder.
That's the whole reason I didn't get diagnosed until I was an adult. I struggled for years with classic ADHD symptoms that did have a negative effect on me as an individual, but because I wasn't a "problem" child, I was completely outside anyone's conception of what ADHD looked like.
There were plenty of value-neutral traits I learned to hide or redirect because they were deemed disruptive or otherwise socially unnacceptable: stims that made noise, strong sensory reactions, info-dumping, fluctuating speech volume, etc. So while I personally don't feel like "masking" is the right term to describe my experiences (I'd probably just say suppression), I can absolutely understand why it might resonate with other ADHD folks. It's not like there's no overlap.
Thank-you to all of my new Internet stranger friends for being so gracious about having my post shoved onto your dashboards. I loved reading all of your kind tags and comments! Both Martin and Bosco have been gone for several years now but for 24 hours, they felt very present in my life. I greatly appreciate this gift. ❤️
rebecca olds (timesmith_dress_history on instagram)
The completed mantua, next to the original - displayed vertically by clever use of magnets!
Now on view in the "BLUE" exhibition at @theschoolofhistoricaldress1 - swipe right for details.
EDITED TO ADD: As this post has gone a bit viral the final week of November 2024 and has generated a great deal of comment, l'd like to add the following information.
There seems to be two misunderstandings about the sleeves:
1, people thinking the sleeves are upside down.
This is technically correct as, as l've explained several times in the comments, the photo was taken the night of the exhibition's preview, immediately following the re-mounting of the gown so that the front is upside down at the top. After I took this photo, it was noticed that the sleeves had not been been swapped -- left and right -- accordingly. This oversight was caught after I took the photo and was fixed the very next morning before the exhibition opened to the public.
2 - Some people are interpreting the curves at the elbows as armscyes. That is not correct - it's a modern take. The gown was originally flat-cut without an armscye, i.e. the sleeve pieces were attached as extensions to the stubs of fabric protruding from the body of the own. At some point later (possibly in the 1730s), the sleeve extensions were removed and re-fitted to the body as if they were complete sleeves.
From the outside, there appear to be armscyes, but in fact the "extra" fabric on the inseam was not trimmed out. This is very clear to see and understand for anyone looking at page 12 of Patterns of Fashion 6, especially Figure 20.
Meanwhile, the shapes we see for sleeves on European and English gowns throughout the 18th century do most commonly use a straight edge at the top, often utilising a selvedge. A very cool thing for anyone interested in 18th century cutting methods to see and hopefully use in your own projects.
Isn't this house unusual? I had to see the interior just to see what those dormers looked like from the inside. Built in 1904 in Yonkers, NY, the listing says it's a Queen Anne Victorian. i never would've guessed. It has 5bds, 3ba, 3,000sqft, $949k.
The entrance hall is different. You can see straight ahead to a fireplace.
It's very roomy. The fireplace is very nice.
To the right there's a very large opening, making the sitting room part of the entrance, but they have a piano blocking part of it.
There's a twin fireplace for the one in the entrance.
Between the sitting and dining rooms there's another large opening with pony walls and columns. The large dining room also has a big built-in window seat.
You can see it better, empty.
The dining room has a large case opening to the kitchen, and the kitchen is also very big. It's been renovated, but gets points for matching wood. I like the patchwork look of the backsplash tile.
Lots of storage, and it's definitely an eat-in kitchen.
Here's a half bath, revamped.
This house is much bigger than it looks.
It has very big bedrooms.
Look at that- those "dormers" out front are small separate rooms off of the bedrooms. Interesting.
So, it's like an opening w/small shelves. This room has a nice built-in dresser.
This bedroom has a fireplace that also matches the two on the first floor.
It's a nice large room. Maybe it's the primary. The rooms were freshly painted gray.
I'm assuming that this is how the room originally looked. It looks like they may have home-schooled in here.
So, it has the shelving and was also freshly painted.
The shelves are a little narrow.
Refreshed bath. What an interesting sink.
Finished attic. Look at the cute little closets.
Large bath up here, too.
The porch is beautiful, wrapping around the house. 8,712sqft lot.
Half the people reblogging this are putting #aesthetic #beautiful #photography and half the people are putting #thisishell #dontmaketorontoaesthetic #iateshitonthesidewalktoday #vestalunchmention
Man, it's been years since I lived in the city, but I didn't even have to enlarge the image, just saw the thumbnails on my phone and Knew. Vesta lunch in imprinted deeply on my brain.
The trouble with mending, and all the cute visible mending trends especially, is that mending is predicated on the idea that what you have is an essentially sturdy garment that has worn out in a high-wear area or gotten damaged/torn. Whereas what most of us are actually dealing with is cheaply made shit that has simply given out at the first sign of adversity. If you mend something that's weak to begin with, it's entirely likely that it will just tear at the edge of the mend, which will suddenly be the strongest part of the garment. Or if your shirt has worn through or ripped out at the seam, it's just a crap shirt, and you can fix that seam, but another will give soon, and you have to make an honest assessment of whether the work you put in is worth it. My cheap Hanes white cotton socks blow out at the heels far faster than they ever used to, and fuck a bunch of that, but I'd never bother darning them. They'll just blow out at the toes in a month.
I don't have a solution to offer for this that doesn't involve spending either more money or more time. It is still barely possible to buy quality clothing, but it costs more than most of us can afford. And you can still make your own clothing, but as the skills and tools become less common, it's all the harder to learn. All I can say is look around, make a real assessment of your resources (like, say, Grandma still has a working machine and a stash of probably unfashionable but maybe cute fabric, or you think you can afford two pairs of good work pants a year and then keep them mended), and do your best.
Strategies to help alleviate this (not solve because that's an industry+cultural wide problem, and like OP said it all takes at least more time if not also more money):
Have different nice clothes and clothes that you're ok with getting worn down, it will extend the life of your nice clothes
Change out of your nice clothes when you get home
Get an iron and use it on your nice clothes between most wears and only wash every few wears or when there's a stain or you got too sweaty (take care of your iron too, use filtered water in it)
When you wash your nice clothes, use cold water and then hang to dry. Hot water and dryers put a lot of wear on clothes
Get some wool dryer balls for when you use a dryer, it will speed up drying so you can also reduce the length of time clothes are in the dryer
This one's hard: don't overstuff the washer and dryer
Wear tank tops/undershirts. Thicker/higher quality clothing can be stiffer/more uncomfortable than cheap fabric so a tank can give you a buffer. It also helps keep your sweat off the clothes
Try going up a size when you buy new clothes, a lot of wear comes from clothes stretching/getting pulled around your body as you move rather than just the friction between you and the things around you
For socks: try loosening your shoes and cutting your toenails more often
Be mindful of how you take off your clothes, if you pull on the collar to take your shirt off, that's where it's going to start to rip
Be ok with small holes in your clothes. I agree it's often a waste to repair but it doesn't have to be trashed immediately
Since you just reblogged that gifset of Arthur Jurado, do you know of any other disabled vintage stars? It's rare to see people like myself in today's film landscape, so it's even more of a pleasant surprise to see we could still sometimes get a chance back then. Look up Esmond Knight!
I just did! What a cool guy to know about.
Esmond Knight
Here are a few other vintage hotties with disabilities:
Susan Peters (paraplegic)
Peter Falk (right eye surgically removed due to retinoblastoma)
Claude Rains (permanently blinded in one eye due to gas attack in WWI)
Rondo Hatton (acromegalic)
If I got any of the phrasing wrong, or forgot somebody we should talk about, please let me know!
He's not a film star, but the fact about Buster Keaton reminded me that Brian Wilson (front man of the Beach Boys) also was deaf in one ear, in addition to having schizoaffective disorder.
taking a class on sex this semester which has resulted in many fun things like "sex activity" and "sex final" being added to my planner. being very mature and serious about this .
I had a class called "What is Evil?" The professor called us his "evil students" and I got to say things like: "I have evil class later." and "I have readings in evil to do." and "Well my evil professor said..."
[ID: tumblr reply on this post reading "my partner did a sociology degree and one of the modules was on organised crime. very funny to see stuff like "anyone doing organised crime this afternoon" in a uni groupchat"]
I had a class on Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion. You can imagine the joy I got out of saying “I have to study for my magic final” or “im off to magic class now”
in senoir year i had to take a bio required class called "what drugs do to your body" or smth but everyone called it "drugs." at graduation the kind and very smart stem guy who saved my ass at every exam wave at me and i loudly said "we did drugs together!" to my friends and his whole family could hear me
This is also very much how working on theatre productions goes. I was sharing my calendar with someone recently and they stared at it for several second before saying "you have a shocking amount of time blocked off for Murder".
Also our production emails always lead with "Hello murderers,".
yearly reminder, the Met Gala is a fundraiser that serves as the primary source of funding for the Met's Costume Institute. the money that invitees pay for tickets and almost all other proceeds from the gala is charity that goes towards a museum collection which otherwise likely wouldn't exist. please support public and private funding for information institutions
Hot take but if you can’t create costumes that look great and fit great on plus size bodies, you’re bad at your job.
performers will be like “my last costume made me feel hideous and had me in tears” I will literally release a rabid raccoon into that designers house that is not ok
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