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It is I! The Outside Girl!

Here is the pictorial evidence of me pointing at the different crafted wood details on a pretty old building. And edit, another photo because my jacket I made is cute.
"Gosh that's a lot of snow for April", you may think, and indeed it is!

#OutsideGirl #HistoryBounding

A photo of Sini standing in fairly pristine white snow in front of an older wooden building. It has a large porch, ornately framed quirky windows and a very classic pale white earth pigment yellow paint. She is pointing up at what must be the rafters and attic of the building, looking that way. She is wearing a floor length black skirt with a very wide hem, a gray tailored wool jacket with a wide flowing skirt and massive leg of mutton sleeves, and a bright pink and magenta wig. The wig has cute little curls at the ends and is the most saturated thing in a very very wintry looking scene.
A more posed photo of Sini, looking at the camera, with her hands down. Her jacket has multiple quintessential qualities of the 1890s, foremost the huge lapels and the massive sleeves. It is just a generically nice photo also, and she looks a bit mischievous, even while wearing a white face mask.
#historyBounding #outsidegirl
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Sini Tuulia
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The building is both pretty and pretty old. Built 1896 so not ancient, but old enough to be interesting and coincidentally also roughly the year of fashion I was wearing!
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Sini Tuulia
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I typed my own hashtag wrong and thus edited it. Sorry about the extra notifications who got them. 😂​ Truly I am not all the way awake today.
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fritzoids
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it is the sleeves that give it away. Although, if I am not mistaken they were fantastically and ridiculously pouffy in 1896, so a little bit larger than the ones on your beautiful jacket.
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Sleeve Shifts of the 1890s – Historical Sewing

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Sini Tuulia
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@fritzoids Oh yes, absolutely, mine are cut with just the *lining* of the sleeve because I figured I'd already have issues fitting all this wool into my teeny tiny arm's eyes anyway... Which I did. 😂​ And I feared they'd overwhelm my small frame also!

Gosh I love a ridiculous sleeve, though. My jacket is incredibly heavy as is, I wonder how much the honking big sleeves would have been.

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fritzoids
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I think there was this moment, like 4 years ago where, because of the many "walking skirt" youtube videos, the matching jackets became popular too and I saw an etsy listing for a wood-frame to put into the sleeves to make them stay up.
Ridiculous sleeves are so amazingly impractical and I think that is what makes them so alluring.
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Sini Tuulia
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@fritzoids It's a really very good shape of skirt, but they were Everywhere. 😂​ Making a little jacket out of leftover skirt pieces is a thing I did, too! The pieces for a late Victorian walking skirt are such a wasteful shape unless you reaaaally game it, so there's always something left over.
The very big sleeves need less propping up if there's more enormous sleeves as the layer below, but who amongst us has the patience!
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fritzoids
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They really were!
Apart from the patience, I'm also not a good enough sewist to spend that amount of money on several meters of boiled wool just to get the leg-o'-mutton sleeved ice-skating jacket of my dreams.
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Sini Tuulia
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@fritzoids All the wool I've ever bought has been on sale or a blend of mostly acrylic... 😅​ I did make a little jacket with massive sleeves from a cheap linen blend, first! It turned out nice, too, but sees a lot less use than a warm wool jacket.
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fritzoids
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oh, do you have a picture?
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Sini Tuulia
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@fritzoids I have multiple, only one of them very good!
I originally made the sleeve according to the pattern (I still used bought patterns for these then) but later on changed the shape because it sagged in the arm's eye and the sleeves were too long. I also changed the lapels later! First two images of the original sleeve, there's nearly the same amount of fabric, but later on it's distributed differently. The linen-cotton blend compressed quite nicely!
A photo from the back of Sini wearing a short jacket from a brown striped fabric with greens and blues in the stripes. The sleeves of the jacket are enormous and tightly gathered onto the very small arm's eye. There is a little bit of wonkiness along the side back seams because the weight of the sleeve drags the shoulder down and messes with the fit. She is wearing a pretty pastel lilac wig in an up-do.
Front side photo, she is smiling and looking away. The jacket is open at the front, sans closures of any kind. These days this would probably be called a bolero jacket? Under it she is wearing a matching vest and skirt. The lapels are rather small and not in proportion with the sleeves, made from the brown self fabric. The weight and shape of the sleeve head drags them down, making creases form on the upper arm bit of the sleeves. They are also slightly too long on the wrist.
A better quality and posed photo, of Sini looking at a pocket watch, while wearing the same jacket but with a different lapel and slightly different sleeve shape. The sleeve no longer sags and is instead an enormous but structurally surprisingly normal looking shape that juts out from the shoulder in a fairly graceful way... But is also balanced by the very very wide black linen lapels that are now on the jacket. The lapel tip goes way past the shoulder line and halfway down the very large sleeve head. It looks much nicer and the jacket hangs better. She is also wearing a black linen vest and black linen skirt, a white shirt and blue tie. And hat! A little dainty hat with brown veiling.
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fritzoids
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oh wow! that looks amazing.
and you are right: the new lapel balances out the jacket much better.
Both vests look great with the jacket.
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Sini Tuulia
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@fritzoids Thank you! I got the fabric on sale, and got enough of it to cut a circular skirt out of it... But because I gamed the cutting layout to be more thrifty, I was left with enough fabric to make a vest, and *then I still* had fabric left over to make a little jacket... The sleeves are pieced but it's nearly invisible with the stripes and gathering.
I couldn't quite put my finger on why the jacket didn't look quite right, but then I browsed through enough period magazines to figure out it wasn't just the sleeves, but also the collar. 😄​ And NOW I'm finally happy with it!
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Sini Tuulia @fritzoids of course, people who live in a warmer climate have it easier, and their cheap linen blend jackets will get more use than an expensive wool one :D

(or at least, one made in wool that would have been expensive if it had not been on sale)

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Sini Tuulia
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@valhalla @fritzoids When it's warm enough to wear a light linen jacket, it's also warm enough to not wear one. 😂​ But you'll always need a warm coat or jacket...
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Deetlebee
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laughs is US Midwest where that building would be Quite Old Actually. I think the oldest standing building here is the court house (1888)? :wikipedia hole:
Ok so more late 1800s than I expected. It was only incorporated in 1830s after colonizers wiped out the Wea people’s city(autonym waayaahtanwa, now part of the Confederated Peoria Tribes).

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Quixoticgeek
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weird question, if I may, how does the wig compare warmth wise to a hat? (Also looks awesome).
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Sini Tuulia
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@quixoticgeek Not weird, quite important to wig wear during winter! If it's not very windy it's as warm if not warmer than a hat, since when the hair is down is goes all the way down while most hats stop at the neck... If it's windy, the chill goes pretty much all the way through to your ears. 😄​ Doesn't protect eyes from the sun at all, though, so I often double up with wig and hat anyway.
(And thank you!)
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Sini Tuulia nice building, nice outfit and nice wig!

(also, can I haz some of that snow? :D )

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Sini Tuulia
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@valhalla Thank you thrice!
The snow looked very nice today because it came down yesterday, but trust me it will be a gray soggy slush in a day or five, and less enjoyable. 😂​ I'd enjoy some spring flowers already!
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JoeP
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@valhalla
We had a full snowstorm yesterday, with proper howling winds, but the forecast is +10 by Monday so I predict complete melting rather than slush. #Lohja On the roads and paths that is ... the snowplough piles will be there until late May.
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Sini Tuulia
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@JoeP @valhalla We're supposed to have just above freezing for a bit, but who knows what it's actually going to be like. The spring sun is warm enough to melt the top layer of the snow in any case, and then it freezes overnight again!

I have a friend from Lohja, but honestly don't know much about it as a place.

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JoeP
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It has a lake. And a limestone mine and a cement factory.
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JoeP
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The Lonely Planet guide that I checked (years ago) said something like "not an obvious place for tourists" 😂
It does have a 15th century church and pretty islands.
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Suitably ballyhooed
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that jacket really looks super cool! (Building is great too, ofc)
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Sini Tuulia
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@antifuchs Thank you! I put so much work in it so I'm happy whenever I actually get to have it admired!
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Suitably ballyhooed
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it has a ton of super cool details! The button row! The way the sleeves meet the shoulder, aaah
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Sini Tuulia
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@antifuchs It's almost exactly the design from the pattern I used, which is the Black Snail Patterns 1890s Skirted Jacket! I think I changed the skirt length and how many buttons to put on, but that's about it. 😄​ But it was a lot of work, so thank you!
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Gulleko
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I was cursing at the same April snows a couple of days ago and now it's half gone already. I just want to wear cute shoes but instead I must protect my feet from the slush. 😩
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Sini Tuulia
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@Gulleko My very very good Nearly Only Shoes did surprisingly well in the snow but I'm not really looking forward to when all of it is a melty icy slushy mess and it's bad weather for every shoe, even rubber boots
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secretsloth
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fabulous! The hair really pulls that whole look together :blobcataww:
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Sini Tuulia
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@secretsloth Thank! I bet it would have looked nice piled up onto head also, but I had misplaced all my hair apparatuses!
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