Browsing old patterning books and magazines to bring my chill levels up, came across this issue of La Vraie Mode from 1905 and chuckled at the hat topping of *an entire bird*
Also I kinda want to make that cape, I really do
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Unknown parent • • •Catherine RW
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in reply to Catherine RW • • •I love how with the cape the pigeon breast is a bit shallower if you look hard, as if the illustrator went "so if you don't feel like wearing all that today, you can look snazzy this way also, the fullness hides it"
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in reply to Sini Tuulia • •@Sini Tuulia that. cape.
btw, is page 588 scanned? asking for a friend :D
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in reply to Wonderdog • • •@caity @Natalie The Audubon Society was sorely needed back then! There was a whole movement to adorn hats with anything but birds and bird plumage, too. Humans have always liked the look of birds and feathers, and the latter provide fun movement and volume without weighing a lot which is concern with hats... But still, personally I'd skip the taxidermy no matter what. 😂
I'd love to see Australian hats, too! I imagine at least some people always used what was available. Even plain old rooster feathers can be made very decorative in various ways, even if people really craved the ostrich plume.
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Unknown parent • • •@kel They're also very tall and slinky! Fashion illustration. 😄 They still teach it that way in fashion design classes, just the style changes! For reference, the proportional ratio for anatomy in art is generally "8 heads makes a full adult human height" but we got taught to slap just some 10-14 heads of height on there. No actual human proportions at all, the waist is just easier to spot!
Fashion magazines in some capacity have been around since the 1700s at least and the illustrations have always been idealised, it's just that the ideal is always different. But people were able to tell they were art, versus the new thing where IRL humans are edited to look an impossible way, which is worse.
I can rant about these subjects at the drop of a hat 😂 I should perhaps come with a warning label
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in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •When your gaze lands upon the page and you just burst out laughing. Probably not the intended effect. 😄 (The Delineator, 1895 September.)
Madam, that is too much embellishment!
#FashionHistory #FashionPlates
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in reply to Sini Tuulia • •@Sini Tuulia surely it's only unbalanced because there isn't enough embellishment on the hat?
(nope, that's not the case, even for their standards :D )
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Unknown parent • • •It makes the clothes look good, apparently. Personally I feel like there's something wrong with the design if it doesn't look good on an actual person. 😂
I did photo editing and assisting for other photographers at one point and it's ridiculous the amount of work goes into the things even before it lands on the editing floor. The sheer amount of clever artifice (or outright deceit, depends who you ask) that goes into a well produced photo these days... It used to be more flagrant, though! Now it's a fine line tread between fake and fake-but-looks-more-real.
People look at some instagram posts with retouching and filters, with studio lighting and a clothing budget and 1-2 hours of makeup and hair - they felt cute earlier and snapped a selfie and then compare the two and go "I don't look like that 😐"
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Unknown parent • • •It's where I live all year, so. 😄 Truly an environment that makes you appreciate useful clothes, if not practical ones.
If you use up whatever you already have and only then get something more environmentally friendly, you've spent less energy and produced less waste than chasing the ideal optimum alternative! The best thing is to not buy at all unless necessary and then investing in something good.
I know my knees prefer me being barefoot, but if I *have* to wear shoes (because of winter and city streets) a moderate correctly shaped heel is surprisingly better than an ill fitting flat shoe. Some people really truly need more support, nothing wrong with having that.