#women wearing ties

[lumpyflakycum]

Today i got a wondrous reminder of. women wearing ties. women wearing ties. is athsma hereditary? cause my dad had it and I can't fucking breathe but it might just be women wearing ties, (show me) women wearing ties

[carolyn1761smith]

[serpentface]

Are braids culturally expected for women in wardi?

It's a cultural expectation throughout most of Imperial Wardin in the sense that it's a very longstanding conventional feminine beauty standard, and will be understood as a signifier of good grooming and status. This region is also quite culturally diverse so nothing here should be taken as an absolute universal for people within the Imperial Wardi cultural sphere, but rather a description of broad trends and/or hegemonic social convention.

It functions first and foremost as a visual signifier of good grooming and ideal feminine beauty- ie you can take the time to neatly do up your hair every day before you enter the public sphere. It can specifically function as a status symbol as well, with particularly elaborate and complicated styles (especially those impossible to form without help, which generally implies access to servants) coming in and out of vogue among the upper classes.

This style exists mainly for the public eye, with hair being done up at the beginning of each day and undone upon returning home for the evening (or once out of the public eye, if guests are visiting the home), though braids may have protective components and be worn semi-permanently depending on the hair type.

Women who do not braid (or otherwise put hair into protective and beautified styles) will often be seen as excessively masculinized or slovenly. The social consequences are Generally not anything more dire than peer judgment, though with a few exceptions. There's parts of the region (mostly the northwestern cities) in which sex workers are specifically forbidden to braid their hair (as a visual marker of their status). This is not ubiquitous enough for direct 'unbraided hair in public=prostitute' associations to be universal, but impactful enough for it to develop additional connotations of wantonness or an oversexed nature. (Sex workers face very severe social stigma throughout the region; one does Not want to be mistaken for a sex worker, especially upper class women).

Unbraided hair might be used as a rhetorical device (ie an attack on a woman's character might include describing her as/comparing her to 'a girl with unkempt hair, worn loose and blown horribly about her face with each gust of wind' or etc as additional ammunition to the main argument) which will be automatically understood by the audience as describing a slovenly, lazy, oversexed, or unduly masculine nature (depending on the context). By a similar metric, praises of 'well-braided hair' in speech or verse would function as a shorthand to communicate the beauty, social esteem, and desirable femininity of the subject.

The fact that braided hair exists mostly for the public eye and will often be undone each evening within the home (and also direct associations with sex workers in some parts) can also lend an intimate or erotic component to depictions of unbraided hair. Imagery of a woman in the process of undoing her braids is common in erotic art and verse, and outright pornography will usually depict hair unbraided (or partially undone, as if the process were interrupted). This does not translate to unbraided hair IN OF ITSELF being seen as sexy, rather this view of a woman in the intimate domestic sphere has voyeuristic elements that contribute to the sense of eroticism.

[robo-milky]

I don’t play Reverse anymore but that new Tennant skin is making me act up…

[mahikamihan]

hhhhno thoughts only roller derby

[javierduffy]

hellooo !!!! ive been really curious about this ever since i started studying your design of him, but i was wondering if there was any extra context for javier's bow??? its such a nice design element and it adds alot of personality so i wondered if there was any backstory behind it !!! :3 - Oizys-Mutt

hello :] ! firstly, thank u ! i’m very glad u like the big bow i gave him !!

to be perfectly honest with u, most of my designs and their elements don’t have a ton of conscious thought to them … to me, they just Feel Right, if that makes any sense ? it’s pure intuition. i gave kieran a big bow on his hat (u can’t hardly ever see it usually but it’s there) and i thought it would be very cute to have javi match with him :’] and personally, with javier’s sense of style, i do think he would accessorize more if given the circumstance, including things like bows (canonically he usually wears similar items around his neck- we could dare to say a few were originally hairpieces), so i just think it suits him ! so no crazy backstory, but the design i draw him with is post-kieran influence, which means that his bow is much bigger than the one i headcanon he used to wear before kieran gifted him bigger ribbons. i’d draw what pre and post kieran javi designs look like to me but im at work </3

but thank u !!! i’m glad u like it !!! i wish it did have some cool backstory or something <//3

[askshivanulegacy]

I just have to say that any woman character with long hair who mucks about without putting her hair up is deeply, atrociously unserious.

Goes for guys too ofc, but women are notoriously bad. Lady fighter with long, free hair in a brawl with a bunch of other people?

No she isn't. Finish the job and stick her in pink heels with painted nails already because you've already communicated that's where she should be and you've already shown she has no sense. Producers, you should be embarrassed.

[harlequinfrog]

My DnD group's DM is collaborating with the players on worldbuilding and I'm the only one playing a gnome so she gave me the go-ahead to make up whatever the hell I want as long as it doesn't affect gameplay too much. MY CITY NOW

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Uh, Watchtower? The fuck

After all these years of not even being able to say hello to my own cousins, now we’re allowed to give a “simple greeting” to disfellowshipped people if we choose? Fuck you fuck you fuck you to the ends of the observable universe

[parkakeet]

as someone who likes wearing long skirts + long sleeves thank you for debunking the mormoncore thing, it was starting to get to me (i dont want to give off the wrong impression and attract the wrong kind of people). not everyone in "modest" dress is forced into it ;-;

haha yeah ofc! tbh most mormons don't wear long skirts. the modesty standard is to the knees so. long skirts are uncommon. and the long skirts/dresses that are worn have a very specific look tbh.

mormons just look like a TJ Maxx threw up on them mostly

[carolyn1761smith]

[todayisafridaynight]

you never realize how hard it is to find a specific shade of blue for a suit until you go to find a specific shade of blue for a suit

[dykesynthezoid]

As someone who tries to dress sort of classy-androgynous all the modern arbitrary rules within menswear are soooo silly to me. I mean I know that can apply to all fashion generally but sometimes it feels like anything above casual in menswear is stuck in a weird 1960s time prison. Every menswear online “expert” sounds like my grandma who used to insist on picking a matching purse to go with her outfit just to go to a doctor’s appointment.

“Your tie should be long enough to just touch the middle of your belt line, if it’s too short it’ll make you look like a silly little clown. Like a little bitch boy. You don’t want people to think you have a small tie, do you? And don’t wear your tie too long, either, then it just looks like you’re short; and, well— god forbid.”

Meanwhile men in the 1920s were wearing ties that barely reached their solar plexus and nobody gave a fuck whatsoever

[eurekavalley]

If this was 2013, I would so make an au edit of Jimmy and Kimmy are struggling contemporary artists in 1970s NYC, and where Chuck and Howard like... run the NYC Ballet and look down their noses at them from the established arts world.

[wifeiy]

hehehehe i love You my summer !!!🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

u have probably heard/read me say 90% of these yet I still ran out of tags SOMEHOW. one of tehse days we will be together when it rains and Won't that be lovely day. also ride your wave + maquia + eeaao + your name (idk y). Ok i willstop rhere fr. see u in like 10 hours. HEH.

TELL ME WHAT YOU ASSOCIATE WITH ME

COLORS, SONGS, AESTHETICS, PEOPLE, ANYTHTING

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

i think a lot of white queer/trans people need to hear that "breaking gender norms" isnt just wearing a dress while masc or dying your hair. its also unlearning the beauty standards that impose ideals of white beauty and attractiveness on non-white folks. yes you have a nose ring but i just heard you tell your black friend with meticulously cared for natural hair "you'd just look so nice with straight hair is all im saying..." why does your blog fetishizing i mean uh. appreciating trans women only feature skinny white women who pass. when societal gender norms are so inextricably tied to whiteness and emulating whiteness it is not enough to simply change your aesthetic. you need to defy the gender norms in your own head too.