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im-just-a-simple-tailor · 2 months

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This. THIS. This is the best thing I have ever made. If I show you anything it’s going to be this. A Victorian waistcoat, tailored to my body perfectly without a pattern or a sewing doll, literally the epitome of gender euphoria. God, I love this thing so much.

Ok, ok let me ramble a bit on why I love this so much please.

-gender: Victorian men are gender. Victorian men in their shirtsleeves are gender as fuck. as you can see I am somehow completely flat in this. I am not wearing a binder. That was not planned. This waistcoat just loves me.

-✨craftsmanship✨: I am literally so proud of this can you tell? Again, no one believed I could do this and that is the best motivation to get me to do something. I made the pattern myself, by pinning some scrap fabric to myself wearing an undershirt and drawing on lines and then sewing a rough mock-up, which I then altered for several weeks until it was perfect. Then traced the pattern onto the actual fabric. This also has red satin(like) lining on the inside, which means I basically made it twice and then sewed both pieces together. The fabric covered buttons I also made myself.

-I just literally always wanted to own something like that and I could never find anything close. This is why I love sewing. I love sewing so so much. Because I can dream of it and then I can just make it.

Ok rambling over bye <3

#finished product #self made #sewing #handmade #Victorians #waistcoat #victorian menswear

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tweedlebat · 1 month

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Glove Lore

By Otis H. Kean, S. W. Laird, and Buffalo & co. Published in 1897

Note: I didn't include all the pages from this book as I'm focused on the clothing illustrations and not the texts this time. However I will be posting links to the topics the texts talk about that are more up to date, as well as related topics if you're interested in that rabbithole. If you wish to read the original, here is a link to the archive.org copy :} The native audio function works well for this particular book.

I did not wish to transcribe all the texts is that it comes from a VERY Western-centric Victorian point of view. So instead I'd like to link to various articles and exhibits with a wider scope that can be found in many of these older books. So here's some more accurate info on Gloves and mittens from Wikipedia and National Geographic, as well as specific information about the customs of perfumed gloves and Episcopal gloves. There is a lot of focus on English Medieval Clothing and an entire article on Evening gloves available on Wikipedia. The book also discusses gauntlets and some historical gloves This book also includes an illustration of Queen Elizabeth the first's Gloves done in watercolour, next to it is a photograph of the same gloves from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

Additional images pulled from some of the pages. There are a few more, but I prefer to focus on the ones with gloves for references.

#victorian #victorian fashion #historical fashion #historical clothing #gloves #1890s #1890s fashion #1897 #victorian menswear #victorian womenswear #accessories #historical accessories

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katruna · 6 months

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#let’s explore #victorian menswear #bernadette banner #Youtube

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fashionsfromhistory · 11 months

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Men’s Slippers

1880s

Fashion Museum Bath via Twitter

#slippers #fashion history #historical fashion #1880s #menswear #mensfashion #victorian #victorian fashion #1880 #1885 #1889 #ducks #embroidery #berlin woolwork #united kingdom #shoes #accessories #fashion museum bath #popular

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forsythiaproductions · 11 months

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This is the entire premise of the game. Hugo's "unintentionally" gay thoughts are the sole reason why this game exists.

We had to make it JUST so he can figure it out.

Please figure it out 💀

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daguerreotyping · 9 months

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Carte de visite of a pair of well-dressed gentlemen walking away arm in arm, Galashiels, Scotland, c. 1870s

#they remind me of Holmes and Watson #setting off on the next adventure #19th century #1800s #1870s #victorian #victorian fashion #1870s fashion #19th century fashion #historical fashion #fashion history #men's fashion #menswear #19th century photography #carte de visite #cdv #19th century men #vintage men #gay interest

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fisarmonical · 3 months

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The adventure novelist Max Pemberton caricatured in Vanity Fair in 1897.

#1890s dress #pipesmoking #pipemen #vintagemen #vintage men #retro men #pipes #smoking pipe #1890s #1890s fashion #victorian era #victorian #victorian dress #victorian aesthetic #menswear #mensfashion #magazine #vintage

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rowzien · 1 year

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Oops new period interest. (Click for better picture resolution.)

The jacket is 1950s. The shirt is 1930s with a probably Edwardian collar, and the vest I made.

I suppose I’ll add some info on the vest here since I keep forgetting to make more posts (sorry). Some might know, but for those who don’t the print is Strawberry Thief by William Morris, which he successfully made in 1883. He came up with the idea when he saw thrushes eating his strawberries from his kitchen window.

#I’m sorry I keep not getting around to making posts about the previous outfit #ignore the fact I need a haircut #historical fashion #edwardian fashion #victorian fashion #1910s fashion #menswear #vintage menswear

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volantedesign · 1 year

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#smallbusiness #altfashion #Streetwear #menswear #womenswear #star trek #lower decks #strange new worlds #victorian #gothic #devil may cry #assassins creed #modern ninja #tokyo style

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sleebyfrogs · 1 year

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The shirt for my historically accurate Toy Soldier cosplay is done!!!!!

[Image: two photos, both taken in a mirror, of a young, transmasc person in their bedroom, wearing a reconstructed, white Victorian dress shirt. It has a shield-shaped bib area and a tab below the placket, with a detachable rounded collar and cuffs. The front placket and collar have a narrow black edge, and everything is fastened together with pearlescent shirt studs and cuff links. In the first image their face is blurred out, with comically simple eyes and a moustache doodled on top. In the second it is obscured by the body of a mandolin, held by its neck in one hand. Their short, dark hair is visible under an antique black-and-red military cap. End ID.]

(*almost historically accurate, and almost done)

After all this time!!!!! I started in September(?) and it’s now May but a lot of that was just putting off starting the twenty eight hand-done gimped and tailored buttonholes this ended up requiring because I can’t do anything by halves

If you’re wondering, I used this pattern, which worked wonderfully for me (special thanks to this tutorial too for demonstrating some of the more difficult parts), but I spent a long time trying to alter it to fit me, and to fit flatteringly, as I have never made a garment this complex before and I do not have the body an average men’s pattern expects. I had to do a lot of things multiple times over, but I’m really glad I did, because it’s definitely the most effort I’ve ever put into anything like this, and the finest sewing work I’ve ever done. I feel very dapper and handsome.

I did machine-stitch most of it because I knew, knowing me, that I could either end up with an ahistorically-sewn shirt or no shirt at all as I would procrastinate sewing all of that by hand just. Forever. I did hand-stitch a lot of it though, mostly the felled seams and fiddly collar bits. And the buttonholes. God so many buttonholes. The black edge is bias tape that I folded in half and ladder-stitched to itself through the shirt/collar fabric. (Also the horizontal seam you can see near the bottom in the lower picture exists solely because I didn’t have the fabric to cut the front out in one, and that part gets tucked into the pants anyway. Piecing is period.)

I’m still working on combining my various incomplete bits of antique cuff link and stud sets in the least-mismatched way, and the shirt itself is definitely not perfect (and there are still some minor adjustments I want to make), but all this to say I’m delighted with my work and excited to move onto the next item, which will probably be either the trousers or waistcoat, and I intend on documenting those too! I learnt so much from this experience and one day I’ll likely make another shirt much like it.

(Also, I’m happy to answer any questions about it!!! I know I could have used footsteps to follow in when I started this project)

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#The Mechanisms #The Mechs #The Toy Soldier #Cosplay #Victorian #Fashion #Sewing #Historical sewing #Shirt #Dress shirt #19th century menswear #Toy Sewldier #Is my new tag for this project holy shit #Doriginal #One step closer to becoming a full-time dandy #It begins

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kiradical · 3 months

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Ok so... This may have no basis at all but I just had a thought about this white collars in various colored dress shirts in the 80s/90s.

Was it inspired by the detachable collars from the Victorian era through the Depression? Exemplified here by Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders.

Men wore detachable collars (and sometimes cuffs!) because they needed to be washed and treated differently than the shirt itself. They were often bleached and starched very stiffly, and different occasions required different collars. So it made more sense to have a bunch of different collars that you could get starched and cleaned separately and just attach them to whatever shirt you were wearing. Theoretically even going from day time casual to formal black tie with out having to change your shirt at all. Shown below is a collarless shirt with several different attachable collars. The shirt shown is white, but they weren't always. (This is from modern day brand Bykowski Tailor and Garb, a brand that makes "nostalgiac" clothing for men.)

Idk. I was thinking about it and suddenly my brain connected it and since I'm much more interested in women's fashion than men's I hadn't really thought about it before. This could absolutely be common knowledge already. I just thought it was interesting and wanted to know if anyone else had made the connection or had thoughts about it.

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tweedlebat · 2 years

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The last pattern in this book!

It's a Men's Sack Coat circa 1884

#victorian sewing patterns #late victorian #historical sewing #historical sewing patterns #victorian menswear #sewing patterns #victorian fashion #victorian #sewing

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jamesfitzjamesdotcom · 7 months

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Dandy man

I don't know who this is, but I acquired this carte de visite of an unknown fashionable gentleman because I think he looks very well-dressed. Also because the picture was taken by Camille Silvy (1834-1910), a famous French photographer who had set up his studio at 38 Porchester Terrace in 1859. William Coningham once owned a house at 42 Porchester Terrace, but by the 1861 census a different family was living at that address.