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openingadoor

Shoes in Vogue (1981) by Arthur Elgort

sclappin

How convenient it is to attach small, useful objects to your clothes at waist level

2-way-monologues

Ahhh love this!!

Also, petition to bring back chatelaines.

sclappin

No one can stop you! This is where my friend who is head of costuming for the museum I used to work at buys theirs for the site. (I am not sponsored by or affiliated with that shop, I've just worn their products in work contexts & also advocate for bringing chatelaines back).

yagamimi-aka-mimi-deactivated20

Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.

ama-kitkat123

>:)c

May I present to you, nationalclothing.org?

It doesn't have everything, but it's still my first source when researching traditional clothing from other cultures.

penanatomy-studies

There's also this resource on historical fashion: Claire’s Historical Fashion Reference & Resources

zheida

another addition as far as physical media goes there is the encyclopedia of national dress (that i still need to buy myself bc this kind of thing is super important to my sort of fantasy designing) but yes i do agree i wish there was EVEN MORE documentation on this

iascus

Reblogging to spread awareness

my-art-tutorial-blog

the goldmine folks

nobodypoff1

—«It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. »

newsmutproject

When it comes to sex scenes, the rules say things like: Don’t write them at all, and if you do, don’t use these words. Don’t write them silly, porny, dramatic, tragic, pathological, grim, or ridiculous.

My whole practical thesis around the craft of writing a sex scene is this: it is exactly the same as any other scene. Our isolation of sex from other kinds of scenes is not indicative of sex’s difference, but the difference in our relationship to sex. It is our reluctance to name things, the shame we’ve been taught, our fraught compulsion to an act a theatre of types. It is indicative of the lack of imagination that centuries of patriarchy and white supremacy has wrought on us.

To teach sex scenes is to talk about plot, dialogue, pacing, description and characterisation: all those elements that make a captivating scene. A sex scene should advance the story and occur in a chain of causality that springs from your characters’ choices. It should employ sensory detail that concretises and also speaks symbolically to the deeper content of the story. Or if not, it should service your work of art in whatever ways you want from your scenes.

“Mind Fuck: Writing Better Sex” in Body Work by Melissa Febos

wh0-is-lily

Undergarments of The Edwardian Era

frostedmagnolias

Evening Dress

c. 1902

American

Kent State University Museum

pmamtraveller

The Rose and Butterfly ~ by Jacques Leclerc for La Vie Parisienne c.1929

deathbecomesherr

Stylist Andrew Richardson caressed by a Russian circus performer, photographed by Steven Meisel as part of the Madonna photo essay ‘Flesh + Fantasy’ for Rolling Stone magazine, 1991.

periellados

Chitons, Peploi, Pallas, Tunics and Himations: Patterns

theytookmywings

pmamtraveller

A Devout Nun by Joyce Lee

pmamtraveller

The Grotto of the Nymphs, from Pierre Louÿs’ The Songs of Bilitis by Willy Pogany (1926).

blondebrainpowered

A dress made of cotton muslin, gilded metal thread and Indian jewel beetles (sternocera aeqisignata), Britain, 1868-1869 CE. Over 5000 beetle wings or parts of wings were used to decorate this dress.

Now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.