#historically accurate? in my head

[deadhellenist]

is this something

[marzipanandminutiae]

every time a man assumes I'm a tradwife type because of how I dress, I just want to be like "at any given time it's been an average of three weeks since I last shaved my armpits. sometimes longer"

[kyouka-supremacy]

Oh...

[tvpsychics]

the blood is the life

[erotetica]

Akasha, still mortal. Designing her was challenging given the lack of extant reference, but this is what I came up with:

Apparently she was turned in 4000 bce, so I based my research in the Uruk Period of Mesopotamia (which was named for the Sumerian city of Uruk, now Iraq, where Rice said Akasha is from). In 4000, Kaunakes we’re not yet in style for Sumerians, instead wearing more straight-fitting kilts/net-dresses. I believe those also conformed to the rule of higher status =ankle length, lower class = knee length, so that’s what I did

On the fabric color—I read a paper that posited the ‘net’ of the net dress shown on the cylinder seal linked above/attached below, was actually a dyed pattern. The cylinder seal is dated @ ~3000 bce, BUT there is evidence of ochre-dyed cloth from Çatalhöyük, in Anatolia, from at least 5700 bce, so I think fabric dyeing in a less complicated pattern sounds feasible for 4000 bce.

Given 4000 was also the Chalcolithic Age/Copper Age in Mesopotamia, I wanted to include something copper. While I couldn’t find extant copper jewelry-jewelry, I did find these pins, and iirc Sumerian wrap-clothing was held with pins anyway

Re: necklaces, Akasha’s is based on this one.

I went with Iraqi-Lebanese actress Zahraa Ghandour as (partial) facial reference

Some assorted refs I don’t think are included in the links:

[reneesfanworks]

they got me an optical pen for christmas let's fucking gooo

[saltpepperbeard]

no because i'm over here trying to maintain a steady course and trying to not jump to conclusions and trying not to panic over out of context articles/questions/pieces of texts where i can't properly read the tone

and then rhys rolls up with-

[chiropteracupola]

sometimes you start to wonder what the historical record for the guys you made up looks like in the fictional world where they existed. and then you make some fake documents about it.

[moth and compass is a collaboration with @natdrinkstea!!!]

[sidabro]

revoke all of my historic credibility on western europe. i needed to look up a cerrain french costume for a piece depicting war that took place in the 1800'ies, and. I looked up the 30 years' war, and with full certainty that it made sence to depict, mm, D'Artagnian from the three muscateers in the second halve of 19th century. Please shoot me to death.

[rogue-rook]

another year, another fun historical tv show that believes headgear doesn't really count as part of historical fashion

[ivyithink]

back to my roots (drawing alfred and aethelflaed interactions, cause they melt my heart)

also the 1st season squad is very important to me, i love them a lot

+ moments from books that were stuck in my mind while i was drawing))

[laudaddysmitten]

Crowley's & Aziraphale's Regency Clothing: Shirts

Researching shirts - the base under all those delicious layers- for umm, science & reasons (cough), was rather important for my upcoming 1827 Laudaddy fic!

(Spoiler: GO BTS and Casanova pics included below.)

The shirts are billowy around the body, have frills at the cuffs, and the collar can go all the way to the jaw if starched (our guys wear them folded down so it's just halfway up the neck).

(top left) David Tennant BTS gives the best view of the front and collar of his black shirt. (top right) BTS with Michael Sheen shows Aziraphale's white shirt under/behind the cravat.

(bottom left) BTS David shirt and waistcoat only! Good view of the collar and sleeves. (This pic disproved a supposedly official costumer post calling the red thing being a corset.)

The collar/neckline goes down to roughly below the sternum, then the shirt had to go on/off by pulling over the head. (You can write that they miracle it off, but I think it's more fun the slow/ human way. 😉)

The photos from Casanova do a good job showing what the neckline would be like and the frilly cuffs, such as where it sticks out from the end of his coat on the right. And then.....

"More murders, I'll drink to that!" This still of Crowley shows off the frilly cuffs at his wrist really well. (And his waistcoat, but that's for next time!)

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[alliluyevas]

criticisms of ivanhoe for being “historically inaccurate” are nothing to me. yes, the relationship between the normans and saxons was much less adversarial by the late 12th century than the novel portrays. yes medieval witch burnings weren’t really a thing. i literally do not care. ivanhoe takes place in the mythic middle ages not the real ones. robin hood is literally there.

[gonguji]

dior  pinpointed  my  curiosity  towards  kabu's  veil  &&  i'mma  be  honest  . . .  there  isn't  much  information  on  such  specific  piece  of  headwear  but  the  overall  details  in  the  traditional  historic  headwear  does  make  sense!

[dallonwrites]

fun thing about lover boy is there's just more access to the 60s and 70s details pop culture etc because felix and dorothy had a really isolated childhood meanwhile for beau i'm looking at lists of 60s and 70s cereals made by nostalgic boomers to figure out which one he ate whilst watching scooby doo on a saturday morning in 1971

[mattynmarns]

literally taking this architecture class to level up my minecraft builds