#cop fashion

[storyofmychoices]

3 outfits from Georges Chakra Fall 2023 Couture line that I think would be better for COP II than the choices we got that last chapter.

Lilah would choose the first.

[choicesbookclub]

If you do NOT like the outfit offered to your detective, what would you prefer? (Answer in a description, with photos, or aesthetic/moodboard)

[talesfromcordonia]

Crimes Of Passion - Diamond Choices - Book 2 Chapter 16

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x04 - “Paint the Town Blue”

[zoe-oneesama]

Some "Special" Girls! And the late girls.

Ko-fi | Patreon

[reunitedinterlude]

slutty emo phase

bonus:

[tamberrio]

Greek Miku?

Plus base color version so I can draw her later:

[littleevil0ne1]

❤️🧡 Lord send me a Lesbian with a Baseball bat 🩷💜

Happy Pride!

Psssst You can get this as a sticker on my teepublic store!

https://www.teepublic.com/user/littleevil0ne

[greasyfilms]

Jean Harlowe in Beast of the City 1932

[dabigothic]

>ᵥ_ᵥ<

[curioscurio]

Reading a lot of Sherlock Holmes, and trying to draw victorian men accurately will lead you to learning that people wrote on their shirt cuffs often in ink because they were detachable and usually made of extremely starched linen or PAPER. working class men would find them stiff, overly formal, or not worth spending the money on it, but if you were mid to upper class then it was expected that you wear just as much complicated, sillohuete focused shapewear as women. Victorian men also wore corsets, especially military men, to achieve that puffy chest and flat stomach look around the 1820's.

The male corset fad had died down a little around the turn of the century (1880-early 1900's) as women fought for more comfortable and less oppressive shapewear, and effeminate men ridiculed for wearing the once fashionable and even medically recommended undergarmet. However, the male corset in the 1880's was still fairly popular enough to be advertised by dressmakers!

(Forgive me not citing my sources at the moment, but these advertisements I believe are dated around 1880 when mens corsets fell out of popular style but were still available and fashionable in certain circles.)

Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that Dr. Watson, being both a medical and military man... probably wouldn't have worn a corset at the time of his deployment around 1880, unfortunately. ( I know, we're all dissappinted.)

Not that he couldn't wear one if he wanted to! But based on ACD cannon, I really feel that he would not be the kind of guy to wear one. Call it speculation, but if I had been deployed and then shot in the shoulder and leg, wearing a corset would be all but torture on my body. Let alone trying to wrestle an injured soldier out of one while trying to stitch him up. Corsets for military men were more of a fashion statement than a medical device; and even then, it was only helpful for orthopedic reasons (back problems mostly).

It was also around that time that the Women's Dress Reform movement began. Despite the Sherlock Holmes novels being ripe with period-typical misogyny, I like to imagine that Watson would side with the women and medical professionals on this one, in that they were often restrictive, unnecessary, and medically harmful in the long run.

Sherlock Holmes, however, absolutely has a large variety of both male and female corsets for various disguises and probably wears them often. This isn't explicitly stated in canon or anything, I just feel it in my heart.

Sorry if this is all over the place or not completely accurate! I went down a rabbit hole but am totally open to any corrections! Also I think the idea of Watson lacing up Holmes and grumbling about corsets is a funny visual lol

[storyofmychoices]

Fashion: Dinner with the Thornes

Character: Lilah Rose

Gown: Roberto Cavalli Shoes: Giuseppe Zanotti

[Trystan Thorne x Lilah Rose Masterlist] [Lilah Rose]

reasoning and ideas about the outfit below the cut

I posted this under the @choicesbookclub Fashion Poll post, but I love this dress so much I thought it needed its own post and I wanted to add some more.

For her first royal dinner with the Thornes, Lilah knows she has to make a statement. She also knows she is going to be underestimated, but she wants to use that to her advantage.

The original green snake skin inspired dress clashes with Trystan's red suit giving them a Christmas vibe, but also, if it's real snake skin, Lilah wouldn't wear it, and if it's fake, the royals would look down on it, but also Lilah would still not feel comfortable with it. I think confidence in what you're wearing is equally (or more important) than actually what you're wearing. I chose this Roberto Cavalli black silk-blend dress with snake embellishment for Lilah. I love how simple this dress appears in the front. The siblings would be ready to criticize her and her dress as soon as she walked in. She'd even let them, trying to hide her hidden smirk, until she turned and they caught a glimpse of the back.

The complete open back except for the golden snake really is gorgeous and fitting of the Thornes and Drakovia and their snake symbolism. I love the statement it makes. I feel like she's daring them to talk about her behind her back. She might not be watching, but the snake is and you won't like what she has to say if she finds out.

I also feel this dress would give her more room to conceal her taser and I think at this point Lilah would definitely have a dagger of her own. Maybe as she lifts her dress to pull the dagger out at dinner, they can see her shoes. The shoes are just a nice addition to pull it together imo.

I really don't think she'd wear any jewelry with this, she wouldn't want the distraction to the statement of the dress.

In conclusion, I adore this dress and think Lilah would love it... Trystan might find it enjoyable too.

Some standalone photos of the dress just because I adore it and want to share larger photos for anyone else who loves it too!

[choicesbookclub]

If you do NOT like the outfit offered to your detective, what would you prefer? (Answer in a description, with photos, or aesthetic/moodboard)

[talesfromcordonia]

Crimes Of Passion - Diamond Choices - Book 2 Chapter 3

[vintage-tigre]

Brigitte Nielsen as a stylish femme fatale robbing a bank in the intro sequence to Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

[wahbegan]

Something something Batman is a billionaire fascist discourse ignores the fact that Batman has his roots in the hardboiled detective story, which thematically was written at a time when trust in the police was at a catastrophic low and as such mainly deals with private detectives kinda extralegally cracking cases that the cops are either not solving or actively obstructing and his conflict with the police has remained a fairly consistent point in most of his stories outside the Golden Age of Comics, Commissioner Gordon is the exception not the rule something something