Today I was browsing through #fashionPlates from the #1890s as one does, and I stumbled on this
https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll12/id/8574/rec/8
(the linked plate has a depiction of a 1890s style dress in pale red fabric with blue/green/yellow lines forming *big* squares (~20 cm?); the skirt is typical for the era, the jacket has the expected big sleeves, plus a very triangular capelet and a skirt that reaches just past the hips and ends in two sharp points in the front. There is also a blue belt, and blue cuffs and collars. The model is also carrying a parasol that looks more like a pointy stick)
And now I can't stop thinking of that dress in grey/silvery lurex fabric, on a #1960s sci-fi spaceship.
If i didn't have more projects than time (many of which are also going to be used way more) I would consider doing this :D
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •except it will have to be in a silvery colour, too, and possibly some computer blinkenlights?
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll12/id/8633/rec/67
(which depicts another early #1890s dress with a plain skirt and waist with the expected huge sleeves in salmon, with just a bit of lace details. And then there is a sort of black swiss waist with gravity defying tabs that reach up towards the bust and ribbons with a dovetail end that go down to mid-tight, plus some black wings? on the shoulders.)
filed under: #whatWereTheyThinking???
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll12/id/9603/rec/4
(Late #1890s dress in green with skirt, waist and a a polonaise with a big standing collar and big lapels, everything covered in big lace decorations in white. There is also a big pink scarf around the neck)
except that when I opened the page while being distracted I saw the lace decoration on the top of the sleeve as a skull, and now I can't stop thinking of this in black, with white death-themed lace all over, worn of course on board the Arcadia (yes, the spaceship, of course).
#fashionPlates
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •But I think that these fashion plates were also used by people from the lower middle classes (or well, anybody who could afford wearing clothing of their choice rather than just whatever they could find on the used market) as well, although they would have probably adapted them for practicality and economy.
Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •If people from that time got access to those fabrics you just know they'd have done it. Maybe with a lot more questionable colour combinations than now, but they'd absolutely have gone for metallic everything, glitter Lurex everything...
(On the one hand, it's always disappointed me a little that the RDR2 devs seem to have avoided or understated the main elements of 1890s women's fashion, but on the other I can see how it could've been a struggle to keep the giant sleeves from looking too comical in-game.)
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