My Spring-Summer ensemble!!

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gorgeous girls wear striped waistcoats, big hats and britches and stockings

ONE FINAL SHOT OF THOMAS SITTING WEIRD FOR THE ROAD

in the graveyard reclining whorishly against my own crumbling tombstone

David Tennant wearing suit by Joshua Kane at the 2023 Olivier Awards

'Regency Swirl' jacquard cloth in a silk and wool blend, designed by Joshua Kane and woven in England for the 'Dandy Rebels' collection.

Hello people, I have no idea how this app works so please bear with me… as a quick introduction I draw, mostly historical figures but fictional characters as well, here is a drawing of Arthur Wellesley

My next long-awaited update for @mimicofmodes's Dandies & Dandyzettes! Drinking, debauchery and revelry was a way of life at Vauxhall pleasure gardens (brawling too). You may recognize some faces from the class portraits.

fitzroy angursell, poet laureate of zunidh

Fellas, is it gay to peer deeply into your friend's tired eyes and call him a "poor thing"?

Episode 14 of Arc 4 airs tomorrow~

Art by @apropername

Naw but colorblind casting in period dramas is a load of bullshit. You really want to play pretend like regency era Britain didn't see non white people as subhuman?

At the end of the day it just looks like pandering. If you want to tell a story about people of color, then tell a story about people of color instead of putting them in a story about white people. Especially when it comes to the classics- Shakespeare and Jane Austen and a lot of classic authors have written stories that have universal appeal because those stories can be found across the globe, in different cultures and contexts. Bride and Prejudice comes to mind, even though it makes me cringe a little from time to time. ADAPT stories to people of color instead of casting them as lords and ladies in regency era England and pretending that wasn't a time period where the English treated people of color like animals.

And yes, Jane Austen did write a mixed race heroine in Sanditon. Know what? That doesn't mean that poc were lords and ladies in regency era England. There's so much social and political context to poc in those time periods and spaces and plunking them in white roles is turning a blind eye to that.

Rich and the unexpected visitor!

After my parents lost my first delivery of hooks-and-eyes (because I accidentally clicked on my parents' address and not mine when I ordered it), I ordered them again, and they arrived yesterday. I was able to sew them into where I need them, and now my Magneto-inspired Regency Dandy outfit is complete as far as I can get it to be. I still need a hat, but I haven't been able to find the right kind second-hand, and I don't have the money to buy a brand new one. I'd also like a fancy cane sometime in the future ideally, although technically I could probably decorate my actual ambulatory cane to look more "historical" if I really wanted to. I sewed the cape I'm wearing last year for my Purim costume. The shoes I'm wearing are shoes I found at a second-hand shop last week. They were a little pricey, but they're really nice, and I've been needing a pair of dress shoes for interviews and shit anyway. The breeches, waistcoat, and coat were all sewed by me by (sometimes drastically) re-tailoring clothes I thrifted. The cravat is a nice cravat I also found last week while thrifting, and the two brooches too.

Anyway, enough rambling, here's what it looks like altogether. I know my hair looks scruffy, I need a haircut desperately, I just haven't had the time yet.

So here I am without the coat or cape:

And here I am with the coat:

Aand here I am with the cape:

(the little white strings you see hanging out aren't loose threads, their my tzizit, btw)

This will probably be an ongoing project as I hunt for the accessories I want to complete it, but until then, I'm really happy with how it's all come together :)

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Chess Players, 1807 — James Northcote

When I was recently in London, I saw an exhibition on menswear at the V&A that included this incredible print from 1819 called Laceing a Dandy.

The caption read: "This satirical print illustrates the use of corsetry by men while lampooning male vanity and effeminacy. The dandy, with exaggerated coiffure, neck and waist, begs his servants not to 'spoil my breasts! The depiction of this Black man and French hairdresser reflect racist and homophobic stereotypes. A loss of manhood is further implied by a large pair of phallic-shaped shears hanging on the mirror."

Thought you'd appreciate this!!

Thank you for sending this, and my apologies for my very delayed response!!

You're actually the second person to send me a picture of this satirical print from the "Fashioning Masculinities" exhibit! (But the first on tumblr, which is better for discussion). I reached out to people who are more knowledgeable about women's dress history for the names of the doohickeys at the bottom of the stays, turns out they're called tabs. I may not have known the name, but I know that I've only seen them on extant women's stays, not men's. Other caricatures I've seen also put tabs on a man's stays, with the obvious intent of ridiculing him as womanish.

Here is a possibly more realistic(?) depiction of a contemporary (c. 1820s) dandy getting dressed (Rijksmuseum):

I question the padding worn directly on the body. I'm not saying this never happened, but as far as I know only the clothing was padded to give a more desirable silhouette, and we have extant examples, like this 1830 Royal Marines uniform with padded chest, that the National Maritime Museum Greenwich states was probably worn with a corset:

Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1828 novel Pelham has a scene where a tailor talks about padding the clothes of the dandy protagonist:

“We are a very good figure, Mr. Pelham; very good figure,” replied the Schneider, surveying me from head to foot, while he was preparing his measure; “we want a little assistance though; we must be padded well here; we must have our chest thrown out, and have an additional inch across the shoulders; we must live for effect in this world, Mr. Pelham; a leetle tighter round the waist, eh?”

Pelham protests, and the tailor rejoins that "all the gentlemen in the Life Guards are padded, Sir."

So I suspect that the pads attached to the body are only to make caricature dandies look as silly as possible, but I could be wrong!

On their way to a bazaar in a tin can... or maybe a bar in a pristine hat box.

Recently rewatched The Great Mouse Detective and was possessed by the need to draw the LADZ as mice, living in a smaller world, parallel to their human counterparts. 🐭

I wanted to capture the look of animation cel on top of painted scenery, so I refrained from detailed shadow/highlights on the mice themselves.

(Credit to @readingrobin for the cute caption ^^♡)

unashamed to admit i am thomas thorne’s reincarnation

i listen to the smiths and the cure

im a folklore girlie

i like poetry but I’m not too good at it :’)

i wear fancy floaty shirts sometimes

i am madly in love with alison

oh woe is me for i shall never love someone as sweet and as fair as *inset brown haired woman here* cue dramatic sigh

i believe that is conclusive evidence >:)