#victorian menswear

[im-just-a-simple-tailor]

This. THIS. This is the best thing I have ever made. If I show you anything it’s going to be this. A Victorian waistcoat, tailored to my body perfectly without a pattern or a sewing doll, literally the epitome of gender euphoria. God, I love this thing so much.

Ok, ok let me ramble a bit on why I love this so much please.

-gender: Victorian men are gender. Victorian men in their shirtsleeves are gender as fuck. as you can see I am somehow completely flat in this. I am not wearing a binder. That was not planned. This waistcoat just loves me.

-✨craftsmanship✨: I am literally so proud of this can you tell? Again, no one believed I could do this and that is the best motivation to get me to do something. I made the pattern myself, by pinning some scrap fabric to myself wearing an undershirt and drawing on lines and then sewing a rough mock-up, which I then altered for several weeks until it was perfect. Then traced the pattern onto the actual fabric. This also has red satin(like) lining on the inside, which means I basically made it twice and then sewed both pieces together. The fabric covered buttons I also made myself.

-I just literally always wanted to own something like that and I could never find anything close. This is why I love sewing. I love sewing so so much. Because I can dream of it and then I can just make it.

Ok rambling over bye <3

[tweedlestrove]

Glove Lore

By Otis H. Kean, S. W. Laird, and Buffalo & co. Published in 1897

Note: I didn't include all the pages from this book as I'm focused on the clothing illustrations and not the texts this time. However I will be posting links to the topics the texts talk about that are more up to date, as well as related topics if you're interested in that rabbithole. If you wish to read the original, here is a link to the archive.org copy :} The native audio function works well for this particular book.

I did not wish to transcribe all the texts is that it comes from a VERY Western-centric Victorian point of view. So instead I'd like to link to various articles and exhibits with a wider scope that can be found in many of these older books. So here's some more accurate info on Gloves and mittens from Wikipedia and National Geographic, as well as specific information about the customs of perfumed gloves and Episcopal gloves. There is a lot of focus on English Medieval Clothing and an entire article on Evening gloves available on Wikipedia. The book also discusses gauntlets and some historical gloves This book also includes an illustration of Queen Elizabeth the first's Gloves done in watercolour, next to it is a photograph of the same gloves from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

Additional images pulled from some of the pages. There are a few more, but I prefer to focus on the ones with gloves for references.

[ghw-archive]

Evening waistcoat, 1838

[fashionsfromhistory]

Vest

c.1845

England

LACMA (Accession Number: M.87.219)

[frostedmagnolias]

Vest

c. 1880

brocade, velvet, silk

Grand Rapids Public Museum

[rowzien]

I've been meaning to post a picture of this shirt for a while, I made it almost a year ago. I just finished making the trousers as well. The shirt was copied from an original arrow shirt and collar I own. The trousers were drafted from an original 1890s manual online, and the construction methods were based on a pair of 1930s trousers I have to fill in the blanks. I replaced the hat band on my boater as well.

I got the fabric for both the shirt and trousers at Fabricmart. My buttons, cufflinks, other accessories/notions were gotten second hand or I already had them.

[forsythiaproductions]

This is the entire premise of the game. Hugo's "unintentionally" gay thoughts are the sole reason why this game exists.

We had to make it JUST so he can figure it out.

Please figure it out 💀

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[daguerreotyping]

Carte de visite of a pair of well-dressed gentlemen walking away arm in arm, Galashiels, Scotland, c. 1870s

[cinderellaheist]

[fisarmonical]

The adventure novelist Max Pemberton caricatured in Vanity Fair in 1897.

[sakura-riri]

fashion wears i think levi ackerman would wear 👀

[volantedesign]

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[ghw-archive]

Waistcoat, 1845-59

[fashionsfromhistory]

Men’s Slippers

1880s

Fashion Museum Bath via Twitter

[zeehasablog]

Tie Overlay for BatsFromWestoros' 1850s suit

I really like this 1850s suit by @batsfromwesteros, and the additional colours by @theroyalthornoliachronicles , but I don't love love all the ties that go with them. I also don't like how some of the ties overlay the shirt collar; so, I decided to make my own overlay of ties!

Here, I present my overlay, with 14 swatches:

These are: 6 solids (blue, red, green, yellow, magenta, orange), these 6 with "flecks", as well as two black/grey patterns (with blue spots, and damask). I wanted to do more patterns, but I found it difficult to make it look good as a tied tie.

(I also lightened up the shirt colour, got to love a clean, starched shirt!)

You can find the overlay in the accessories category in CAS, under the left-ring finger. 

The ties only work over the 1850s daywear suit by BatsFromWestoros as well as the additional swatches from TheRoyalThornoliaChronicles - therefore, please download these as the mesh.

Note: these do not work for the coat-less versions

I really feel the colours work well with a lot of the swatches - I hope you do, as well!!

Download through my Patreon here!