#BIG NEWS MORGANS THE GOAT FR FR

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WELCOME BACK TO ONE PIECE CRACK POT THEORIES WITH ME ELI

if Morgan’s gets the straw hats story’s his gonna release them in a collection called straw hat dream or something along those lines. Like Pirate king, strongest swords men, chartered world, brave warrior, all blue, prefect cure, true history, greatest ship, return whale, and the surface

THE FISHMEN AND MINXS ARE GENETIC EXPERIMENTS FROM THE VOID CENTURY

And you can quote me on this

Also Mr.big news Morgan’s THE GOAT

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OH BOY! long time friends and followers know I will talk about this in detail and at length to anyone who will listen. I don’t have an essay unfortunately but several people asked about this so maybe I will peak your interest to do more research into historical fashion and sewing.

from a technical standpoint the biggest thing I notice is the fuckoff huge seams on nearly all of the common clothing.

if someone more knowledgeable than me knows what they were trying to accomplish here please tell me because I genuinely see no reason for what sometimes almost looks like lacing to be there except to make farmers look more Rugged™️. on clothing more like the one on the right, I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and believe it’s supposed to be some kind of whipstitched seam felling (felling is a technique that involves enclosing the edges of the seam allowance inside the garment to prevent it from fraying and reinforce the seams. for something like this, historically speaking, you’d probably see a line of tiny horizontal stitches or maybe running stitches on the outside of the garment beside the construction seam. the former is much stronger). the alternative is that the construction seams are being pulled apart because they’re GIANT AND SLOPPY and also not felled (big problem because linen frays like crazy, and that’s likely what at least the chemises are made of).

also, no one in skyrim knows how to spin thread fine enough to sew with apparently. I guess it could be some kind of decorative embroidery, but…. be fr.

and now, some excerpts from a series of discord discussions about the clothing design in skyrim, because it’s easier than typing it all out again

^ I’ll spare you the rant I went on about how underdressed people are (especially the women but I get this is potentially controversial so I’ll come off it for now) but tldr: realistically we should be seeing a lot more layering (why does no one have hose or at least socks?) and possibly more garments made from wool. there are goats I guess, but what about mammoth wool clothing? could be fun to explore!

I’m sure a lot of people WOULD be wearing undyed clothing or muted colours like this. you do see some slightly brighter colours in the merchant and noble clothing, which is cool. but there were many brightly coloured natural dyes available even to lower class people in the middle ages, and fact that it’s a fantasy world gives you a lot more room to explore fun new dye colours. you’re telling me they have flowers that make your skin fire retardant but not dyes that’d make a pre-synthetics cloth merchant pee his pants?

I know this one is going to make some people mad at me. it’s ok to like corsets and want to see them in fantasy worlds. you can do whatever you want, I can’t stop you. but there are soooo many other cool things that existed over the course of history that also deserve your attention!! it’s not necessarily a bad thing that the designers pulled inspiration from a lot of different time periods, but in this scenario to just slap 18th century-ish corsets over top of dresses felt so careless. I say all this not because I believe all fictional clothing should conform to one “historically accurate” standard, but because there is so much more out there to explore and remix than what comes out of hollywood.

dont even get me started on the tavern clothes.

if you’re interested in learning about historical fashion, I highly recommend looking for sources in art from that time period as well as extant garments + reproductions in museum collections! there are also many educational youtube channels that explore historical lifestyles: bernadette banner, the welsh viking, townsends, vincent briggs, and morgan donner are a few I’m a fan of.

feel free to reblog for discussion purposes, but please don’t share as a reference—I couldn’t bear the emotional burden. I’m NOT an expert. just some guy who’s really passionate about costume. please correct me if you know something I do not, I really want to believe bethesda knew what they were doing :,]

not convinced any of the skyrim designers quite know how sewing works. well at least they can draw meat