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[fencesandfrogs]

saw your reply to that post, and honestly i'm totally on your side. i see some of the tags from people talking about how historical accuracy could be more distracting to modern audiences and im like lol, it'd be distracting literally because historical dress is so often overgeneralized into this drab vague 'Old Timey' brush that when people show off the cool unique stuff people don't get it.

fucking THANK you anon.

i moved my ranting into private because i'm getting into loops and yelling into the void ain't healthy, but i will gladly discuss historical costuming any day.

okay so just to comment, i actually don't care all that much if costumes are historically accurate. i think they should strive to be, or they should deliberately deviate from history (e.g., having dresses in modern fabrics, but a historical silhouette, something that is ALWAYS fun), but it doesn't bother me when they aren't.

i'm also VERY EXPLICITLY not talking about shows like ofmd where they clearly aren't trying to be accurate.

i cannot make that clearer, the problem is not shows which are not trying to be accurate. the problem is shows that look accurate, but aren't. (anne with an e.)

like.

urgh i'm very pissed off at the moment and trying to be reasonable and calm and it's not working well. i don't do calm well.

but.

to your point, EXACTLY. FUCKING THIS.

like literally it wouldn't bother audiences if we just all agreed, "okay, we're going to try to be accurate now!"

it would not be distracting. because. like. we would expect that.

people will say "but passion!"

do you know what passion is?

passion is yards and yards and yards handmade lace, because they don't sell lace like you need. passion is pinning ruffs in intricate patterns, based solely off of portraiture, because you aren't going to get lazy with all that lace you made. passion is looking at fashion plates. passion is research. passion is caring.

fuck off if you settle for anything less.