A Selection of Elaborate Keys Designed by Rudolf Hammel from MAK Collection Online. These four were fabricated by Emil Kurczak in Vienna, dating before 1903.
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A Selection of Elaborate Keys Designed by Rudolf Hammel from MAK Collection Online. These four were fabricated by Emil Kurczak in Vienna, dating before 1903.
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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.
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)
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.
Erin Hanson (American, born 1981)
Radiant Sky, 2018
Oil on linen
40 x 60 inches
Private collection
do you have any porn video game recommendations or writing on adult video game recommendations?
I sure fuckin' do, muchacho
So a while back i did an adult gaming survey that got over a thousand respondants, and made a top ten list of their favorite games, which you can find here. I can't attest to the quality of All of them, I do know if you value player expression then CoC and TiTS are good for that, Hardcoded is extremely queer and well drawn, Cloud Meadow has some of the best animations you'll ever see (also has gay and lesbian animations), and third crisis is the most game ass game of all of them that has a lot of adult content. And you know. If you have taste, here's one I'm actively working on wit Taylor that's really good :)
Here's a write up on the survey i did that has some interesting data points, especially if you're a dev. Here's another essay I did talking about porn game design.
If you want more varied voices, the adult analysis anthology is excellent for that. There's two more of 'em and are good reads! In the third one I talk about NTR/Cuckolding as a genre of games and why it's So So popular.
I think that's a good primer. If you want more or something else, I can def share!
The Chant of Light
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White Nights of a Northern Summer - Victoria CroweÂ
Scottish, b. 1945 -
Oil on linen , 81 x 76 cm.
This one is for the art nerds...
The Sin by Heinrich Lossow
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making 1/12 of a quilt each month, here are January-April
and here are May-August
Happy year of the horse!!!! Have my wild horses sweater finally released from the void!
Parchment holes in manuscript repaired using embroidery circa 1417, currently in University Library Uppsala, Sweden
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I love seeing parchment / vellum mended with stitching! Here are some more.
When looking at a medieval manuscript, it is often the illuminations that catch the eyeâcolorful figures rendered in miniature, gleaming gol
great post about this from the Morgan!!!
annoying when shows set in the medieval period have the women with thier hair just long and unstyled and out . girl go put on your wimple girl đ€Šââïž
like there are so many fun medieval hair and headgear options, it's so boring just seeing loose beachy waves meant to appeal to 21st century beauty standards
put that hot prince in a gay little hood with an ostrich feather or so help me god
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for anyone interested i started my fic of monte cristo/dishonored/revenge plot for lucanis, its gonna get gay and full of historical bits of politics okay byyee
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