#the harder part is if youre lookin for references of clothing folds on like. fat people and such. but i do know a few plus size recreators

[thedeafprophet]

How do you manage to find so many good references to use for neath fashion???

I am like really. really into historical fashion, and focused my knowledge on the time period and local of flondon so im often like. looking up a lot of images of historical clothing in my spare time. Fallen london takes place in 1899, so i focus my search primarily between 1894-1905, with some wiggle room here or there.

Pinterest is a really great source if you know how to look [and yknow its not like. clothing from 1890s has copyright lmao. 90% of historical fashion plates are public domain], and theres a whole bunch of actual clothing catalogues from the time period digitalized on some websites, if you want to look through them. theres also some pages here on tumblr and other social media dedicated to historical fashion. There's also some people who do recreation of historical clothing, esp on youtube, which can be really helpful to understanding the making of and the different layers!

and then i just... base my designs off of those! once you know the rules of the time periods fashion, you can then bend and break them as you see fit.

i could link some good resources if youre interested XD down to specifics, im a decent place to ask, heh