#fashion overdose

[overdosefashion]

Our fashion inspiration of the week is Sorn's (CLC) modern and sophisticated editorial (CLC) for Nuyou magazine in August 2022. www.overdosefashion.com.br

[loveshickk]

[confusedlosergirl]

[keuyww]

ame-chan !!

[marzipanandminutiae]

I feel like a more useful phrase for encompassing how Hollywood's Corsets Are Evil attitude underestimates women's intelligence, as opposed to "would we have worn something like them for 500 years if they weren't comfortable?" is

"would the vast majority of us have worn something like them for 500 years if they were absolute torture devices in 100% of use cases?"

would we have worn them if they weren't comfortable? just as a blanket statement with no further modifiers...yes. I've been watching deep dives on lip fillers while I sew this morning. people will ABSOLUTELY do things that are not only uncomfortable but outright dangerous, for beauty

however

"the vast majority" is a key difference here. most women don't get lip fillers, especially not to the point of looking cartoonish. most of us, regardless of gender, look at that and cringe. corsets were worn with the ubiquity of bras, and I cannot emphasize that enough. so it's hardly the same thing

and as for comfort...well, that's a moving target. I can't say "X garment is comfortable" and leave it at that, because different people find comfort in different things. and we all have different bodies, to boot. I don't find stiletto heels comfortable, and most people agree with me on that. I also don't find sweatpants comfortable, though- they're mostly polyester and therefore overly warm to me, and they make me mentally uncomfortable to wear because they're so far outside of what makes me feel happy and confident

and anyway, the media isn't saying that corsets were UncomfyTM. that's not engaging with the actual message. they're saying corsets were TORTURE. that they made women faint all the time! that they killed us! that they broke ribs and chafed us bloody! and that they did all of this regardless of how one wore them, because this is just How Corsets Always Work!

which is...demonstrably not true. some women did tightlace. that cannot be denied and I wouldn't try to. but go back to the filler situation- it's not everyone. and even some women who were willing to put up with tightlacing for special occasions wouldn't do it every day. some brides wear Spanx for their weddings now, who wouldn't touch the stuff 99% of the time

would it have happened, period, if it wasn't comfortable? yes, easily. but that's the wrong question

would it have been as ubiquitous as wearing a bra is today if it were a hellish pain-nightmare across the board? absolutely not

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KAngel - Needy Streamer Overload (w fashion stims)

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[ebeg]

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[maomiya]

[mearii9]

silly:3:3

[yume-chiyo]

˚₊‧꒰ა Ame-chan ahh outfit<3 ໒꒱ ‧₊˚

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[amechanirl]

me and my alter ego

[loveshickk]

[ketchup0-0]

What is there left for me in life. I’ve accomplished most of my dreams and wants so what’s there to look forward to, a painful future?

I’m not mentally ok but when am I ever

[massiveluxuryoverdose]

‘Serpents’ corsage ornament by René Lalique, 1889-1900,

A pectoral composed of 9 serpents entwined to form a knot from which the bodies of the other eight fall in a cascade, with the ninth rising in the centre, at the top of the jewel.

Gold and Enamel work,

H. 21 cm; W. 14.3 cm 

Gulbenkian Museum

[marzipanandminutiae]

speaking of history myths, "fireplace fenders were developed because women's skirts catching on fire was the third-leading cause of death for women and they were trying to prevent that" was a new one I heard at work today

not the Skirts Catching Fire thing; that statistic is batted around a lot. usually they say it was just the most common, so maybe whoever this person was trying to make it sound more believable

(protip: disease was the most common for centuries, followed by other notables like cancer, heart failure, childbirth, accidents, etc.)

but the fender aspect is new. fenders- a very low metal "bumper" of sorts around the fireplace area -just existed to keep logs or coals from rolling out onto flammable flooring/carpeting, the same as the stone floor section around the hearth. nothing about women's skirts involved

I swear people just want to believe that clothing-related deaths were insanely common for women because their outfits look so foreign to us nowadays that we need more fuel for our own "fire" of superiority