#1800s clothing

[thisflighttonight]

One wool and one silk velvet capelet

1890s & 1860s

Augusta Auctions

[sewingsillythings]

19th Century Japanese Fireman's Coat

Extremely cool design on this one!

[phoenixdown-and-fairydust]

So I'm stationed at the historical dress up at the museum, and I found this adorable dress while helping some girls get dressed. I remembered I have a king sized duvet cover I thrifted that's a very similar pinstripe fabric, but in a green very close to Paris green. Originally I was going to make a tea dress for my arsenic dress, but I might go with something like this instead. I might also try to tint it more yellow because I prefer Scheele's Green to Paris, but either way I'd be in for a horrible death.

[blondebrainpowered]

A dress made of cotton muslin, gilded metal thread and Indian jewel beetles (sternocera aeqisignata), Britain, 1868-1869 CE. Over 5000 beetle wings or parts of wings were used to decorate this dress.

Now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

[spirkbitch]

one more opinion about star trek fashion

it actually shouldn’t look like stuff you would wear (or at least a lot of it shouldn’t)

i’ve seen a lot of praise for modern trek fashion being better than classic trek because ‘people would actually wear that’

look at what people wore as everyday fashion 200-300 years ago, would you wear it? probably not, maybe for the novelty of it, but definitely not every day.

like, yeah this stuff looks crazy

it’s 300 years in the future. some of them are aliens, makes perfect sense to me that they would wear ridiculous extravagant clothes that look strange to my 21st century eye

similar to how if you showed modern fashion (especially alternative fashion/runway fashion) to someone dressed like this,

they would probably think we’re crazy.

yet for some reason modern trek wants us to believe that hundreds of years into the future people still just wear zip up hoodies?

(idk if the spock fit actually is a hoodie or not but come on man, the zipper? nothing more futuristic than a zipper?)

or this dress that looks like i could buy it in a 21st century target?

(not to hate on chapel, she’s just the only one i can find decent pictures of out of uniform)

also why is everything so grey now? when was it decided that people don’t wear colors in the future? i can not find out of uniform pictures where any of these people wear color, all black, white, grey, and maybe a bit of muted green.

tldr

clothing design in star trek should be just as important as clothing design in a period piece. i don’t think a screencap from any star trek should look like it could just as easily take place in the 21st century, i should see some crazy outfits. the clothes can do a lot of the heavy lifting to remind us that this is supposed to be far in the future.

[frostedmagnolias]

Black Satin Brocade Bodice with Yellow Flowers and Green Velvet Bows

c.1890

made by American designer Miss Foley

brocaded silk satin, cotton net, and beads

Phoenix Art Museum

[theinternetarchive]

waistcoats, c. 1840s-50s.

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911) "Fatima" (1883) Oil on canvas Currently in a private collection

[ghw-archive]

'The Letter', life study by Sir Edwin Landseer, made ca. 1830-40.

[burningvelvet]

Gentlemen’s Regency Era Portraits

[thisflighttonight]

Golden evening dress

c.1895-96

Maker: A. Guérin & I. Texier

[fashion-from-the-past]

[mysterioussorcerysummonspirits]

Court dress, ca. 1828, probably German, silk, metal

[blondebrainpowered]

Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna was the first wife of Tsar Alexander II and wore this silver silk and brocade dress for her husband's coronation in 1856, Russia.

[escapismsworld]

Harry William Morris Shoes (1890-1899 AD), Norfolk, England

[frostedmagnolias]

Silk Dress

c. 1858

Kent State University Museum