malibu barbie

i’m clinically insane and only 20

[emmaharwoods]

DROP DEAD 2026, dir. Petra Collins

[redstonedust]

pet peeve is when you look up fashion references from a specific era and you keep getting modern day '[era]-inspired' fashion like NO i want authenticity damn it. i can see your 2020 photo quality and your 2020 hair and your 2020 makeup. youre not fooling me.

[bincliff]

hello i'm a historical fashion researcher and i have a lot of experience looking up things! this is a very widely experienced irritation and you're definitely not alone in this, but i am here to share everything i know!

so, ways to get around this:

turn off AI results. they're literally nonsense to us

don't use pinterest because the sources/provenance is often hard to trace

a standard internet search can be okay, but museum collections are the top tier (list of collections below this list)

instead of broad terms like victorian, regency, tudor, renaissance etc. try using the decade you're looking for. if you're not sure of what decade it is but have a vague image in your head, look on the fashion history timeline and just jump around until you find it. but even changing to e.g. 19th century will give better results than victorian

including terms like womenswear/menswear, daywear, formal wear, evening wear, court dress should increase the value of your search too

including "fashion plates" in your search can give you a nice impression of the intended silhouettes of the era. some of these might be a little stylised but will show you what was considered in vogue

for pre-fashion plate eras or things like makeup and styling, you'll have to look at portraiture or manuscripts. these are harder to actually find what you're looking for, but searching museum collections and limiting results to specific date ranges will be your friend

when looking at art, do bear in mind sometimes artists would paint fabric extra flow-y to show off their skills. it might not have been exactly like that in terms of fabric weight or drape. so, a pinch of salt required!

if you find something on image search where the provenance is dubious, reverse image search and you might find a source! i've been able to trace random pinterest images to real sources, but this does take a lot of time and effort and is often not worth the headache

some online resources and museum collections:

fashion history timeline is an invaluable resource if you're trying to get a feel for everything and should be your first port of call. it'll also link to good examples

the met has a vast number of extant examples of clothing, as well as fashion plates

costume institute fashion plates is a subcollection of the met for fashion plates (1800s-1922)

v&a also has many extant garments, fashion plates, and incredible articles on clothing and aesthetics. read the details of the objects because they'll often reveal a lot about the piece

lacma is good for C19th-20th pieces

nypl digital collection for photographs

national portrait gallery or similar for portraiture, or literally any museum in your country that has historical art

national museums scotland can be useful situationally but might be oddly specific

stout style history is a great collection for finding image references for fat people wearing historical clothes. survival bias of a lot of museum pieces tends towards smaller clothing that couldn't be repurposed, but this aims to counter that. it's not sortable, but is still a really nice resource

wikimedia commons is surprisingly handy! and the images, if you should need to link/repost them, are public domain

auction websites sound like a funny one to recommend. some won't have mannequins and some will. just look up historical garment auctions and you'll find some!

anyway, i hope this has been a good place to start for anyone interested! there are probably some i've missed because there are so many museums across the world and i don't know about all of them or can't remember them. but these are the ones i've used the most! (my specialisation/jobs i've had to research for have only really been in western fashion, so my resources reflect that)

[haemey]

Wikipedia has a list of fashion museums. Unfortunately, the page itself is only available in German, but the introductory paragraph is very short and after that, it's organised by country, and then it's a simple list. If you click on a museum's article, the website is usually linked in the overview table.

[sailor-crusader-deactivated2025]

Fundamentally I think a massive mistake that people make when engaging with trans discourse is assuming that everyone else is just as white and global northern as they are.

[sailor-crusader-deactivated2025]

Like my entire existence just isnt accounted for half the time. Entire views on transgender politics and dynamics that does not properly account for what its like to be racialized at all.

[storyweavingspider]

White trans people will see statistics on trans deaths and think it’s about them and not the Black and Latine trans women that make up the vast majority of premature trans deaths.

[tarynel]

If you ask someone to get tested before yall engage in sexual activities and they give you a rough time… fucking run. They can keep whatever they have to themselves.

[certifiedsexed]

Certified Sex Ed Post!

[depsidase]

[closet-keys]

Farm worker dies in California ICE raid, US citizens missing, union says

One farm worker died of injuries sustained during ICE raids in California on Thursday, according to United Farm Workers.

California farmworker dies after 30-foot fall during ICE raid: Report

A farmworker whose union said he suffered injuries in a California ICE raid has died, according to ABC Los Angeles station KABC.

California farmworker who fell from greenhouse roof during chaotic ICE raid dies

At least one worker was hospitalized with grave injuries

[ashstfu]

i don’t think people understand how much of life is grief. not just people dying, but losing the version of yourself you thought you’d become. grieving the city you had to leave. the friends you lost not in argument, but in silence. the summer that will never come back. the feeling that maybe you peaked at 12 when you were reading books under the covers and believing in forever

[lacetulle]

Robert Wun | Fall/Winter 2025 Couture

[closet-keys]

the worse climate disaster gets, the more you’ll see closet eugenicists start to advocate for letting people die. you need to be prepared to combat the ideology wherever you see it, because it’s only going to get worse and worse Read everything having to do with climate disaster critically. If the central argument underlying what’s being said is that the death of disabled and/or racialized people is inevitable, natural, or desirable– that’s a fascist.

they might be appear to be a garden variety republican or liberal or even a leftist at first, but know that if that argument is being made, their underlying ideology is one of supremacism, and given additional climate stress, they will become more blatant about it.

[closet-keys]

it’s been 6 years since I wrote this post, and as predicted, the eugenics movement has had enormous success since then.

since writing this, millions of people have died preventable deaths from a pandemic that much of the global north pretends doesn’t exist anymore.

access to healthcare is being revoked from increasing percentages of the population– removal of testing, accelerating vaccine prices, artificial shortages of medications (blamed on PWUD or disabled people’s “over-reliance”), insurance companies automating denials, increasing criminalization of health care concerning “sexed” traits and reproductive capacity (e.g. abortion, HRT, puberty blockers).

many places are beginning to criminalize wearing masks. doctors have even stopped wearing them. activists have even stopped wearing them.

anti-fatness is at its most blatant in years and most people have framed this acceleration of oppression as nothing more than a fashion cycle (“thin is back in!”), ableist slurs that had temporarily been deemed inappropriate by abled people are returning to common vernacular.

every climate disaster is quickly framed as people “deserving” it. every new pop science article that goes viral claims to have found the “cause” of the supposed phenomenon of the anonymous masses “degrading” their intelligence/IQ/cognitive abilities, and the solution presented is always Hard Work.

I need you all to pay attention to how this works.

[velvetcloak]

robert wun | fall 2025

[closet-keys]

Answer these questions to yourself:

Have you ever been unable to access education because of trauma or poverty?

Have you ever lost someone you love to police or military violence?

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Did you answer "yes" to any of these questions?

No, I've never experienced these things

Yes, I've had one or more of these experiences

Voting ended onJul 17, 2025

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She can no longer afford fees to attend Al-Azhar University where she was pursuing a degree in engineering. She is enduring constant trauma. Just yesterday, Israeli occupation targeted a place just a few meters away, and saw the body of a pregnant woman who had just been brutally murdered. Who gets to access education? She is brilliant and she is not allowed to flourish because ethno-nationalists have decided nothing a Palestinian woman could ever accomplish is worth more than their own power.

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[fashion-runways]

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[sapphic-luthor]

i’m going to hold your hands when i say this and i am only going to be kind about it once: ai does not belong in fandom spaces, ever. not in writing, not in art, not in video, not at all. it does not matter how bad you want to see your favourite characters kiss, or how much you need a bit of help finishing a chapter, or whatever.

make friends with artists. commission somebody. learn to draw yourself. ask for a beta read. try a writing partnership. fandom spaces are communities, so engage with them! it is about the journey and the fact that we all love something enough to create and build together about that thing.

spending 30 seconds to kill a tree and get an AI to push out some soulless empty piece of “content” is antithetical to the entire point of being engaged with fandom, and if you’ve taken to doing this you should really reconsider if you belong in these spaces with the rest of us.

[phantom-threaded]

NOSFERATU (2024), dir. Robert Eggers

[detectivehole]

to pretend that horrible people cannot make good art is another way to conflate beauty and talent with integrity and morality. the works of monsters are best examined with knowledge of the author in mind but art is not inherently reflective. human beings are creative, and habitual liars- it'd be stupid to pretend art must always be a portrait of its creator

[chandelyer-deactivated20241003]

Chung Thanh Phong 'I Dreamed a Dream' spring 2025 collection

[zoesupreme]

spotify is raising prices again here's the apk that gives you premium for free

[world-of-lang]

and here's the desktop version for Windows with adblock and skip-bypass BlockTheSpot

[dont-look-me-in-the-eye]

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[epistleii]

[social-battery-low-deactivated2]

I never want to hear "vote blue no matter who" ever again. There's a reason why Biden is called Genocide Joe. There's a reason why cops are brutalizing peaceful protests. There's a reason why marginalized groups, especially Black and Brown, are not getting what we need and are leaving the Democratic Party and voting Third Party. WE ARE NOT GOING BACK TO BLUE. WE ARE DONE. PERIOD! No shaming is going to work. No amount of "well Trump" is going to work. No scare tactics about Trump and Republicans is going to work. It's time for a real change and third party is ONLY a SMALL PART of it. It's the very least we can do to move things in a better direction.