BigHooter Yum-Yum

mid 20s, 🇨🇦, trans man, bi king, sagittarius, he/him

[fandom-trash-goblin]

we've got a life to love living.

[teaboot]

advice that has literally saved and improved my life

[themakeupbrush]

Robert Wun Couture 2025

[jbthegift]

Pioneers 😭🚀 🌙

[pitbolshevik]

my super sustainable bmw

[pitbolshevik]

[rattling-bag-of-bones]

My lord I need you to make up your mind, where the fuck are we going

[mandalhoerian-deactivated202510]

my lord i think we're lost

[depresseddepot]

my lord????

[marzipanandminutiae]

help some Racist Nonsense someone came at me with has sent me down the rabbit hole of trying to figure out how common enslaved dressmakers were in the antebellum southern US, but the continued lack of understanding even among historians that Seamstress and Dressmaker were two different things in the 19th century is making it REALLY difficult

(the Nonsense being "well of course it's realistic in Gone With the Wind that Scarlett makes the curtain dress herself with patterns her mother formerly used to make clothing! plantation mistresses had to know how to make adult clothing from scratch so they could direct the enslaved women who made their clothes!")

(like. yes, enslaved clothing-makers were AI clothes generators who had no skills of their own and had to be given very precise instructions to produce the desired output. of course. sounds legit. </s>)

[marzipanandminutiae]

Also just speaking of the book in question, genuinely, it is so 1930s to be like "oh yes, we make clothing ourselves now, so in the olden days before modern technology, they must've made their own clothes even harder!!!!!"

Filtered through a heaping dose of the classic "well, women of the past could do everything and women of the present are spoiled and incapable!" Which in the US you see all the way back to the 19th century fiction of the totally self sustaining colonial household where the wife did absolutely every domestic task somehow 

Like just in case you had any suspicions that Margaret Mitchell did a lick of research when writing this. Please throw those suspicions in the trash 

(really the period when it was at all a money saving endeavor to make your own clothing at home from scratch was so small in western history, and the practice was geared at such a specific subset of the population, that it's not at all what people today imagine it was. Like for most women, making your family's own clothing at home being a thrifty or even just viable proposition was more likely to happen in the 1950s than in the 1850s. I'm not saying that nobody in the 19th century was in that position, but far fewer people than anyone imagines in the present)

[achronalart]

I recently read a book* on British women dressmakers in the 18th and 19th centuries.

There was a whole invisible, disregarded and mostly unrecorded economy of independent self-supporting businesswomen making clothes for sale. (The author had to pore over local records all over the UK just to pull together the information. Working women were not given much visibility or mention in those centuries.)

One thing that's really clear is most women did not make their own clothes.

Rich people had servants and professionals to make their garments, and later on couture houses. Many of them used enslaved labor which would have had to have been highly skilled.

Middling sorts had local dressmakers, sometimes professionals, sometimes a local woman or neighbor who would do it for pay. There were itinerant dressmakers too, who would come into houses and make up the family's wardrobe. And there were shops of readymade garments far earlier than most people realize.

Poorer people bought their clothes secondhand. There was a huge secondhand garment trade.

American pioneers in homespun is pure modern-day fantasy. Women in the territories had mail-order catalogues from which they could have clothes delivered by trains or by ship.

As far as I can tell, the idea of self-sufficient women doing a constant round of spinning, weaving, and sewing is a fantasy of the post-industrial age projected onto women. But spinning, weaving and clothing-making has long been a professional industry.

*The book is Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid: British Dressmaking in the 18th and 19th Centuries, by Pam Inder, Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2020.

[marzipanandminutiae]

Book recommendation! Thank you! And such a good breakdown too

(worth noting that slavery was in something of a legal gray area in the UK during the 18th and early-mid 19th century when it was legal in other parts of the Anglosphere; it was never technically legal in the UK itself, but of course it was legal and commonly practiced in their colonies, and many enslaved people who were brought to the UK Were treated as though they were still de facto enslaved until they were taken back home again. And of course you don't have to rely on chattel slavery to make a business off of unfair labor practices, which was extremely common even after slavery was outlawed and/or fell by the wayside)

it's interesting also that some dressmakers offered a sliding scale of services, from making up entire outfits on the high end, to cutting and fitting and basting the pieces together in the middle, to cutting and fitting but leaving the women of the household to do the physical sewing themselves as the Budget Option. I find that fascinating

[princncess]

porn is bad because [christian talking point] and [alt-right study] and [misunderstood neurochemistry] and of course [feature of capitalism]

[princncess]

thank you SO MUCH for reminding me about [feature of patriarchy] and [problem caused by lack of kids' sex ed] random tumblr user in the notes! louder for those in the back!

[fantaboy91]

The adult content warning on this post is really just the icing on the cake

[sandmandaddy69]

[northirish]

I'm following blogs that haven't posted in like eight years but I don't care I shall never unfollow them because I am a true and loyal knight #loyalknight

[loreleywrites]

you solve the mystery of what to have for dinner one night and you think "hell yeah case closed forever" WRONG there is a dinner mystery the next night too

[artbylittlebug]

[g0thcats]

[qqchurch]

[butchstrahd]

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[airoehead]

[butchfagminotaur]

the terf idea that you’re somehow attracted to chromosomes or something is so fucking stupid like literally if there’s a trans guy with phallo or a trans girl with vaginoplasty literally how are they any different to you as a cis person unless your only focus is breeding and even then how are they any different from a cis partner who is infertile/barren? it all just fucking falls apart if you look at it for more than one second

[lobstabear]

To my 25 - 35 year olds, you've reached the age where people around you are starting to give up on themselves because they think it's too late. Don't let that energy rub off on you. It's not too late.

[knittingontheroad]

I became a tattoo artist at 49.

Married the love of my life at 50.

Got my Class A CDL at 59.

You've got time.

As long as you're breathing, you've got time.