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silverfoxstole · 1 year ago

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This 1880s Emile Pingat dress from the Met Museum is a perfect example of how velvet can completely change colour depending on the lighting. Now, what does that remind me of? Oh, yes…

I do still wonder why they chose green given brown would fit better with the rest of the costume. Maybe they thought it was brown? Which begs the question: is it green velvet that looks brown, or brown velvet that looks green?

Hmm….

#doctor who #doctor who 1996 tv movie #eighth doctor #8th doctor #paul mcgann #so much of that costume offends my dressmaker’s soul these days #the general design is ok but why did they feel the need to drown poor paul in fabric?#for example look at those trousers #i know he was meant to have stolen the clothes but was it really necessary for them to be so ridiculously long?#paul is by his own admission a smallish man #and there’s a ludicrous amount of extra length pooling on his shoes #it just makes him look even shorter #jon pertwee pinched his first costume from a hospital too but it fitted him better than this #sorry #costume fitting rant over

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