buy a fucking wig

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[diosapate]

can someone tell Jacqueline Durran that the issue with the wuthering heights costumes isn't even that they're historically inaccurate. it's that they're fugly

[depsidase]

[peoplegettingreallymadatcosplay]

leaving michaels crafts with a $9 bouquet that I did pay for and two dozen sheets of stolen posterboard hidden under my upcycled tablecloth skirt

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

one side of this post is the costume design from a big-budget theatrical film meant to live up to the hype of the first animated film ever made for wide-release and another side of this post is the costume design from an abc soap opera where dwarves hatch from eggs and i think you guys will kill me if i tell you which is which

[lostinhistory]

Netflix, BBC and ITV set to ‘ban’ corsets from period dramas like Bridgerton

Many actresses have spoken about the pain of wearing them.

This is stupid. All of the problems complained about are due to

- wearing the wrong corsets or stays

- wearing ill-fitting corsets or stays

- not wearing a shift under the corset

The Bridgerton actresses were complaining about how horrible and painful their corsets were, which is bizarre, because Regency corsets have no boning.

Look at them:

Do you see any boning there?? There’s nothing to tight lace!! They didn’t even care about the waist, it was all about the bust! Regency stays hoisted your boobs up so you looked like the figurehead of a ship, they didn’t smush them down like sad booby pancakes.

(you also couldn’t tight lace, because to tight lace you need metal eyelets, and they hadn’t even been invented yet)

I have worn 18th century stays; they were more comfortable than an underwire bra. There was nothing restrictive about them. You’re going to sit up straight, but that’s about it. Also, all women wore corsets, not just the wealthy. Women cleaned houses, worked in factories, and did farm work while wearing corsets and without fainting all the time. If you can’t breathe while wearing a corset, loosen the corset.

Also also, corsets were structural garments, in that they supported the weight of the clothing. Nothing is going to look right. They’re going to spend all this money on their next fancy costume drama, and everyone’s going to look like they’re wearing a halloween costume.

This is so dumb.

[3liza]

Netflix, BBC and ITV set to ‘ban’ corsets from period dramas like Bridgerton

Many actresses have spoken about the pain of wearing them.

as you can see in the photos from the actual fucking show, Regency dresses did not actually show your waist. as a result regency corsets did not tightlace you, they were basically a longline pushup bra. it was physically impossible to tightlace a corset until the invention of the metal grommet in the mid 1800s.

so either wardrobe is torturing actresses with corsets that don't fit for no reason, the actresses are lying because "ouuf ouchie my corset hurt so bad" is such a popular chat show topic, or something else is going on. but not a single part of this article is factual. anyone wearing a garment that prevented them from eating, breathing or moving without injury on a daily basis would just die in tbe premodern era. wearing a corset that caused bruises for 10 hours a day would cause infected pressure ulcers which would become septic and kill you. there is no record of this being an issue for victorian women or any other population that used corsets because it just didn't happen

i have to emphasize to you that working class women did hard manual labor in corsets for hundreds of years. this is because working women did not tightlace. their corsets were basically back braces that made holding a lot of heavy warm woolens together easier without elastic, and kept their boobs out of the way of farming and kitchen tasks. tightlacing was considered a fringe activity even in tbe Victorian era. the illusion of a tiny waist was created with moderate corseting and LOTS of padding of the hips and bust. there are equivalent "boobs and belly protection" type garments in most areas of the planet where it's not too hot to wear them. corsets are not equivalent to foot binding, neck stretching, or lip and ear plates. tightlacing is not particularly immobilizing either if you have the right corset, there are thousands of people who are hobbyist or medical tightlacers who do fine.

i think the "corsets were instruments of torture" myth is kept afloat by White Feminism. we (i and my fellow white women) need a justification for victim mentality so badly that we will accept without critical thought the suggestion that our ancestors in the English peasantry did hard manual labor bending over in a field for 15 hours a day in a bit of underwear that caused organ dislocation, hypoxia, pressure ulcers and random syncope because they were just so tough and so glamorous and so oppressed by Male Expectations. somehow this is easier for us to believe than "Hollywood wardrobe direction is so divorced from historical reality they are putting actresses in clothes that don't fit and injuring them". let's all go on jimmy kimmel and talk about how strong and brave Women are for going to a party with a 24" waist, my god

[3liza]

I'm going to fix my own dryer while wearing a 22" tightlacer called a "power corset" by Crimson Rose corsetry just to be a bitch about it!!!!

[lgbtpolitics]

Mad that you can accuss them of potentially lying and be all "I and my fellow white women" have an insane victim complex when the Bridgerton actress talking about it is literally a woman of colour.

Corsets, like any clothing, can come in different styles and yes, some will allow more movement than others, some will allow for more support etc. Some, however, will serve to reshape your body at the expense of your health. These aren't mutually exclusive.

And working class women did wear corsets. And indeed, they suffered more from them than your average middle to upper class woman.

[3liza]

are you wearing a corset on your brain or is it naturally that small

[quarklynx]

here’s my cosplay of that old lady with a sword

[potato-dragons]

You know... I really thought I was crazy about how ROP's costumes look so shitty until I came across pic below of this character and saw she's actually wearing a long-sleeved shirt underneath her chestplate with the exact same gold scale design printed on.

Remember folks, the budget of this show is half a billion dollars compared to Peter's Jackson Lord of the Rings 250 million budget released twenty years ago and still looking beautiful.

[lessmeh]

[peoplegettingreallymadatcosplay]

first of all, holy shit

[peoplegettingreallymadatcosplay]

you...really have to open this in a new tab and read the whole thing

I laughed so hard I almost pulled a muscle

[peoplegettingreallymadatcosplay]

pour one out for Sarabi

[peoplegettingreallymadatcosplay]

a Chipotle burrito

[geniusoflove]

cosplay mood board

[yarter-deactivated20170523]

off the shits no jutsu

[margary]

My tour of sadness through Megacon.

[so-i-did-this-thing]

Omg

[notnights]

I CANT BELIEVE IM LOOKING AT A COSPLAY OF THAT ONE BIRD GIF

[garbage-senpai]

omg

[elodieunderglass]

IT’S NOT JUST A BIRD GIF IT’S A VERY IMPORTANT BIRD OF PARADISE CALLED THE SUPERB BIRD OF PARADISE, IT IS FAMOUS BECAUSE OF BBC’S PLANET EARTH HOSTED BY DAVID ATTENBOROUGH OKAY

JESUS

IT STARTS THE DANCE AT 2:05

THE COSPLAYER DOES A SPLENDID JOB OF PERFORMING THE MATING DANCE AS SCRIPTED AND I THINK THAT’S VERY IMPORTANT

HERE IS WIKIPEDIA’S FRANKLY SPECTACULAR JUSTIFICATION FOR THE DANCE

The species has an unusually low population of females, and competition amongst males for mates is intensely fierce. This has led the species to have one of the most bizarre and elaborate courtship displays in the avian world. After carefully and meticulously preparing a “dance floor” (even scrubbing the dirt or branch smooth with leaves), the male first attracts a female with a loud call. After the curious female approaches, his folded black feather cape and blue-green breast shield springs upward and spreads widely and symmetrically around its head, instantly transforming the frontal view of the bird into a spectacular ellipse-shaped creature that rhythmically snaps its tail feathers against each other, similar to how snapping fingers work, whilst hopping in frantic circles around the female. The average female rejects 15-20 potential suitors before consenting to mate.

THIS COSPLAYER HAS TRULY CAPTURED THE SPIRIT OF THE BIRD AND ITS DANCE AT EVERY LEVEL

[holy-shit-dangan-ronpa]

this is so cursed

[mothguys-deactivated20230502]

seeing komaeda and bernie sanders in one image that hasn’t been run through some kind of photo editing program and is in, in fact, 100% genuine is all i have ever wanted in my whole life