studying history is like. here's to another beautiful day of not being pregnant and of having no obligation to ever be. thank you women who fight for abortion and contraception and independance from men for another beautiful day of not being pregnant and of having no obligation to ever be
i don’t want to be angry anymore i’m never going to hate again unless someone says something really stupid or if i see something i don’t like at all or maybe just whenever i feel like it
I don’t think Downton Abbey gets enough credit for introducing a gay central character to a period drama in 2010, where being gay isn’t his defining trait. His defining trait is that he’s Evil.
I hope I'm online when it happens. I want to see a sudden flood of crab rave memes right after refreshing my dash, and in the middle of it all, the Castiel news meme. That's how I want to learn of it; not through anything solemn or serious, but via overwhelming silly celebration.
I made sourdough cornmeal Dutch babies for breakfast with whipped cream and strawberries and a slice of bacon each and we ate out on the porch with Boots! I love summer!!
She got a pretty green crêpe dress with a girdle of crimson beads, at a bargain sale, a pair of silk stockings, to match, and a little crinkled green hat with a crimson rose in it. [...]
Valancy put on her green dress when she got home. Then she took it off again. She felt so miserably undressed in its low neck and short sleeves. And that low, crimson girdle around the hips seemed positively indecent. [...] the girdle had given her flat figure an entirely different appearance.
She pulled her green crêpe from its hanger and put it on feverishly. It was nonsense to feel so—so—naked—just because her neck and arms were bare. [...] She flung on her coat and pulled the little, twisty hat over her hair.
I feel that The Green Dress should not be as hard to fancast as I found it to be. I follow @the1920sinpictures (lovely blog, by the way), which regularly posts images of beautiful vintage dresses, and every time one comes up, I look for whether it has TGD Vibes. I don't even need it to actually be green! I'm just looking for shape, style, etc. And I tell you what, I have not had a direct hit so far.
Images under the cut - and I will go ahead and credit posts and reblogs by @the1920sinpictures for most if not all of these; I've lost track of the source for some.
First off, we read that the green dress has "short sleeves", which would appear to knock the archetypal sleeveless 1920s flapper dress out of contention. Of the three designs below, for example (which are a tad later than our time period), we'd be looking at one of the ones on the sides rather than the one in the middle:
Or perhaps a softly draped sleeve like this, which gives me strong Valancy vibes.
Then there's the "low neck", which prompts the question - what would be a high enough neckline for Valancy to actually buy, but a low enough one for her to feel self-conscious about wearing? Women were showing some collarbone even in the previous decade, but the text says that Valancy is feeling naked with only "her neck" bare. Just how covered-up has she been all her life? (Oh, I just now remembered the colds - presumably Valancy's throat has not been allowed to see the light of day in a long time.)
And then there's the "girdle of crimson beads" - when I first read the book, I imagined this as looking like a literal string of beads, but I don't think that makes sense structurally. Is "that low, crimson girdle around the hips" something like this?
Or this, from a bit earlier in the decade?
And then there's the little hat to top everything off. In the end, I think the closest I came on Vibes for the whole outfit (even though individual details might be off) was this:
Or the red outfit on the right here:
So what do we think, bookclubbers? Do any of these even come close to how you envision TGD?
(But not a real green dress, that's cruel)
Vibes 1 (Mistinguette entering car)
Vibes 2 (Ipswich Hosiery, red dress)
I need that teal dress and I need it now
La Robe de Jeunesse
Can't see the whole fit but Agnes Ayres is slaying
Dancing hours of Holiday (left, scalloped hemline)
Dancing hours of Holiday (right, pleated hemline)
I have a different fancast for TGD, which I will share below
Nuance / reserving opinion until I've read further
baby quilt finished! and given to the nearly-parents today. frog prince has gone hard into quilting (the layout was all him & I'm obsessed with the color gradient). can't wait for the next one. boy reba, we hope you love this quilt from day one!
I think what bothers me about this book in comparison to The Secret History is that it’s so clearly theater kids overlaid over the TSH outline but without the skill of Donna Tartt. She set up a trap where the characters got so entangled that it seemed like murder was the only way out. In contrast this just seems stupid. They had lots of other choices. Yes, the Greek class had lots of choices but in their blind privilege and isolation at Hampden, they couldn’t see that. In contrast this just seems dumb.
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