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From @veggiedayz: “Blackberry has a song he wants to sing for you.” #cutepetclub [source: http://ift.tt/28SdMmN ]
Kitten: *small mew* Cameraperson: *soft “ohhh”* Kitten: *BIG LONG MEOW* Cameraperson: *soft laughter* “What was that?” Kitten: *tiny mew*
the caption did not prepare me
the highest ratio of meow to cat that i’ve ever encountered
failgirl bosswife
i love telling people "godspeed" it adds so much weight and dignity to everything i'll say it to a friend driving cross country or a coworker grabbing lunch from the corner store like good luck bitch!! may the road rise to meet you and the wind be at your back!!!
jump off a bridge, cunt
see this is a perfect example of what not to do with a hate ask.
F. see me after class
is this Tumblr university
Our blessed tumblr
A holy site
Nah nah nah, you ain’t hiding this in the tags
Not one of the 7 deadly sins, but a secret 8th sin
every employer is like "do you want to work in a fast-paced environment? with flexible hours?" where are the slow pace environments with consistency instead
Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius (LTU) - "Insomnia" by Faithless (chor. Marie-France Dubreuil, Samuel Chouinard, Massimo Scali)
2022 NHK Trophy, Sapporo - Free Dance
$3 labor fee for them to pick all the bacon and cheese off
$3 labor
fee for them to pick all the
bacon and cheese off
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
I love it when it's autism and all the leaves start to change
die girlies reading this 🥰
oh my god I meant in a german accent I did not mean to wish death upon girlies
The girlies reading this post
Item: Chandelear Rings
Stray on Steam
Her name is Strawberry Frog 🐸 🍓🌱
civilty in US politics is fu*cking bonkers man you can have a preacher at a town hall calmly calling for gays to be publicly executed but if a politician responds to him “FUCK YOU” that politician would be the subject of a week-long tirade about some bullshit “this is a dark day in american history. i cannot believe a politician would say the f word. we are a country of people who respect others’ opinions uwu”
I think a good place to start to get into dress history is general overview of the whole timeline. Understanding especially how the silhouettes change is really important ground knowledge to build the rest of the information on.
I'll start the timeline from Middle Ages and go till the first world war. I'll focus on upper class England/French sector, so keep in mind that before 17th century there were huge regional differences in fashion inside Europe and class differences too. There is a lot variance, changes and nuance inside any century and decade I'm about to discuss, but I'll try to keep this short and introductory and very simplified. I used a very scientific method of basically what makes most sense to me to divide the periods. I've made sketches what I would consider to be the basic silhouette of the period stripped mostly out of the detail and then I give couple of primary source examples.
Dress was simple one or more tunics over a chemise. They were overly long for upper classes, made out of straight lines. There were loose tunics often worn over another tunic, and tunics with laced bodice called biaut. In France bliaut sleeves often widened from the elbow, in England they often widened in frists.
Clothing was mostly very similar as in the previous century, though bliaut was mostly gone and new popular style was a loose sleeves surcoat.
Tailoring basically revolutionized clothing production, since clothes weren't made out of rectangles anymore and could be better made to fit form. Also functional buttons and lacing was popularized resulting in very fitted styles. The underlayer tunic, kirtle, became a fitted supporting layer.
Improvements in weaving technology and trade and growing prosperity in Europe showed in clothing as excess of fabric and variety of trends. Houppelande, a loose A-lined overdress lined with fur and fastened with a wide belt under breasts, became a very popular clothing item, and in later decades developed into the iconic Burgundian dress (the red dress). Fitted overdress continued to be popular alongside the warmer houppelandes.
In the renaissance era clothing became increasingly structured and elaborate. The bodice was heavily boned and the skirt was also structured.
Both structuring and elaborate decoration reach it's peak during Queen Elizabeth's reign. She became the defining fashion icon of the late renaissance.
In baroque era the bodice was still heavily structured, but more curved than the conical Elizabethan bodice. Otherwise though structuring was replaces with dramatic excess of fabric.
In the late 17th century there was a huge shift in the clothing industry as mantua, a loose open robe inspired by Japanese kimono, came to dominate fashion. Rigid bodice was replaces by structured under layer, stays. Stays brought back the conical silhouette of Elizabethan era.
Mantua developed into the iconic Rococo dress in France, robe à la francaise (first example picture), and in England robe à la anglaise with closed bodice. Rococo fashion was characterized by the wide silhouette of the skirt.
Since Tumblr won't accept more than 10 pictures per a post I'll have to continue in a reblog. So to be continued!
...Aaand continued
Already before the French revolution the excess of Rococo had gone out of fashion as hatred against the ruling class and their lifestyle started mounting. After the revolution the rest remains of the Rococo style and silhouette were very quickly abandoned in favour of much more simple ancient Greece inspired dress. Structuring was minimal and the new stays had very little boning if at all, their main purpose was to push up the chest.
I included 1830s here even though it's not actually part of the Victorian era, since Queen Victoria wasn't in power yet. However it's the start of Romantic fashion, which characterized the first half the Victorian era too. Start of the Victorian era is characterized by the increasingly wider round skirt and wide neckline. More structuring was back with boned shapely corsets.
Natural form era is a brief fashion characterized by the long sloping trail. The strongly curved corset of the late Victorian period takes shape and creates the curved hourglass figure.
1880s is often considered the quintessential bustle period. The bustle becomes very high and shelf-like.
Last decade of Victorian era is very distinctive. Art Nouveau movement was at it's height and it shows in fashion too in the bold shapes and organic details. The bustle is gone, though a bit more volume remains in the back, but the skirt is more A-lined now. Volume goes to sleeves which reach their peak in the middle of the decade.
Art Nouveau continues as the dominant art movement in the Edwardian era. The S-shaped corset and the round pigeon chest dominate the silhouette.
Sometimes 1910s is also counted as the Edwardian era, even though Edward VII died on the first year of the decade. The fashion has a lot of visible similarities to Edwardian fashion, Art Nouveau is still going strong, but the silhouette is significantly different. The corset used is very similar so there's still a bit of the S-curve left, and the round chest is emphasized, but otherwise the curves are gone in favour of much more slender and simple figure.
An addition with some more in-depth look at the fashion evolution and also some of my though process behind this post. Further reading under the cut!
We got some super exciting news…
Escalin Week 2021 is almost here! This year, the week of November 7-13 will be the week of celebrating our favorite lovebirds/sins with a week of music, stories, and art. Post your art, stories and more on Tumblr and Twitter under the tags #escalinweek and #escalinweek2021! Remember to include these tags in the first 5 tags of your post.
In general, this event is not NSFW, hence, we will not be reblogging explicit NSFW/gore/heavy themes. However, we will reblog mild nudity/moderate gore and such. If they’re on par with the manga, especially manga panels directly out of the manga, we will reblog them. Please make sure to tag everything accordingly and include content warning when appropriate. We will also try to do so for the sake of everyone’s comfort level.
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The prompts this year are:
DAY 1: THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY | KISS | BLUE
DAY 2: NO LIE | WHAT IF | EBONY
DAY 3: I’M YOURS | PERFECT | YELLOW
DAY 4: IS THIS LOVE | STAY | SILVER
DAY 5: KISS IT BETTER | EUPHORIA | AMBER
DAY 6: LIKE I'M GONNA LOSE YOU | SHELTER | GOLD
DAY 7: 'FREE DAY' (CHALLENGE) | RED
The reward for participating for at least any 3 days, or the challenge, will be a 100-word Escalin drabble with a prompt of your choice by our mods this year: Nitefyre, Rory (RoryWild on AO3, author of “How It Should Have Gone” and “Searching for the Light”), and Aisling (sailingskye on AO3, author of the “All Kinds of Trouble” series). Details on the challenge will be announced within the next 2 weeks!
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Let us know if you have any questions. We hope you’re as excited as we are for the event! Can’t wait to see what you guys come up with this year!
