costume design does owe audiences historical accuracy at least to an extent. what it owes them even more tho, is to look good. imagine lacking historical accuracy and looking like shit. pick a struggle

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costume design does owe audiences historical accuracy at least to an extent. what it owes them even more tho, is to look good. imagine lacking historical accuracy and looking like shit. pick a struggle
A million fan fiction writers may cry, but I must speak this truth: Fitzwilliam Darcy will be the kind of father who gives his children a handshake at Christmas and that is their allotment of physical affection for the year
"This is my beloved sister Georgiana, of whom I am guardian. I have hugged her once, after Ramsgate. That's enough."
ishmael using a pseudonym is so funny. like what are you in witness protection? from the whale?
This. Is one of the pics in my phone that I will never delete when I'm cleaning up my phone storage. It's just one of those very important images I will always have
Mr. Collins would be such a fan of ai. He would love it. He would have it write scripts for him to use for complimenting people. He'd ask it what to do in social situations and then when someone would tell him "I think that's a bad idea" he'd be like "my dear madam it's so good of you to be concerned but I think the highly esteemed Grok knows a little more about this than a lady like yourself" and then he'd go humiliate himself publicly.
one word from you will silence me forever
Green Silk Bonnet, 1806-09
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the article i just read about lou alcott (louisa may alcott, author of little women) was wild because it was literally like "he preferred being called lou and his whole family always called him that. he never identified with girlhood or liked feminine things and said he had a boy's spirit and longed to be a boy and believed he was a man's soul put into a woman's body. he loved dressing up as a man and passing for a man and being flirted with by people who thought he was a man. he called himself a gentleman and a father to his adopted children and his own father once lamented sending "his only son" to war when he enlisted in the army as a nurse.
...calling her a trans man is reductive and misses the point of her work though lol she was obviously a cis woman who was speaking figuratively because women in the 1800s weren't allowed to wear pants!"
Peoples biggest defense is always âwe donât know how they would identify in this dayâ which IS true but I find it interesting how they have little problem âjustifyingâ Louâs feelings by calling him a cis lesbian or a nonbinary person or a tomboy.
Thereâs also so much terf rhetoric towards this subject of Louâs identity that Iâm almost certain itâs just discriminationâŠ
âShe was confusedâ
âShe didnât understand the world properlyâ
âShe was trying to escape oppressionâ
I donât know why people are so convinced trans men/mascs existing is anti-feminist but itâs not, people literally parrot misogynistic points just to take away their identity and that should say enough.
We donât know how he would have identified today, however; we DO know how he preferred being referred to in his daily life and how he saw himself in the past. I think he is owed that much.
Some articles I found:
âI am more than half-persuaded that I am, by some freak of nature, a manâs soul put into a womanâs body.â
Louisa May Alcott felt a strong affinity with manhood.
To family and friends, she was Lou, Lu or Louy. She wrote of herself as the âpapaâ or âfatherâ of her young nephews. Her father, Bronson, once called Alcott his âonly son.â In letters to her close friend Alfie Whitman, Alcott called herself âa man of all workâ and âa gentleman at large.â
This is all BARELY mentioned in the Wikipedia entry, so an opportunity there to help fix the representation.
ah, thank you, i think that first article from LGBTQ nation may have been the one i read back in july when i posted this! just from quickly skimming over it, it appears to include all these points i mentioned and argues in favor of lou alcott being a trans manâbut then includes a section at the end about the idea that "she was just speaking figuratively and saying she was a trans man is backwards and anti-feminist" đđ transmascs existing and living their lives is not anti-feminist. saying that someone who called himself all kinds of masculine terms and enjoyed being seen as a man just might have been a man is not illogical or unreasonable, these people are just transphobic.
@chiefexecutiveossomancer asked if i could find the article, and @petiolata also mentioned wanting to read it, so here you go!
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One very stupid thing that bothers me in historical romances and fanfic is the fact that male characters often take off shirts but stay in their breeches. The breeches arenât the last layer of underwear, the shirt is. The shirt is the body linenâ thatâs the thing that goes against the skin and is the first thing to be put on and the last thing to be taken offâ thatâs the thing that is sewn by hand by wife/ sister/ daughter/ mother partly out of a lack of extensive manufacturing but because it is the most intimate layer of clothing and you donât want a strangerâs work against your skin.
Is it just because to modern eyes it would look silly? Is this a case of âI got too interested in the material culture of body linens in the Regency era and now I know too much to enjoy myselfâ??
bless 2020 emma for giving us a scene of mr. knightly dressing (it was short but loved that it included his valet - upper class men also had help dressing and undressing! - and proper dressing order and him tucking his shirt between his legs as his breeches/trousers go on **infinite chefs kisses**)
we often get scenes of women dressing in period pieces but similar scenes with men are very rare and it's a damn shame.
like you got your shirt wrapped around and tucked in to be your underwear... the very act of taking the shirt off to do the anachronistic shirtless with breeches look would be way more complicated than the people who perpetuate the anachronism ever imagined
You get it!
Period Seinfeld and George is at the diner pub explaining how he tried to take his shirt off to impress his date?? and Jerry's like "ere your breeches?"
"yes ere my breeches"
"why"
"i know not, jerry! i know not - in the fervor of the moment, the fancy seemed appealing! but my notions were - forsooth, i nearly yanked certain provisions clean off"
"yanked off your provisions! he yanked off his provisions"
"NEARLY!"
If youâre queer, what Shakespeare play did you latch on to in school?
Macbeth
A Midsummer Nightâs Dream
Hamlet
Romeo & Juliet
Much Ado About Nothing
The Tempest
Other
I donât like Shakespeare/Iâm not queer
Pride and Prejudice 2005 + Onion Headlines, part 3/3
costume + color + scene
CHER HOROWITZ and EMMA WOODHOUSE 2/2 Clueless (1995) and Emma. (2020) adaptations of Jane Austenâs Emma | Costuming by Mona May and Alexandra Byrne respectively
Elinor Dashwood đ€ Anne Elliot đ€ Margaret Hale
Handling all the emotional labor for their family