If You Could Dress From Any Era, Country...

[meowmix]

love this coat from the late 1700s-early 1800s...

 

[softgrey]

i think i'd like to go forward in stead of back...or perhaps sideways into a parallel universe...where androgyny ruled... and everyone always looked lovely...

i want to live in a place and time where men wear skirts...
and women wear ties...

 

[meowmix]

Originally posted by softgrey@Nov 9 2004, 12:20 AM
i think i'd like to go forward in stead of back...or perhaps sideways into a parallel universe...where androgyny ruled... and everyone always looked lovely...

i want to live in a place and time where men wear skirts...    
and women wear ties...

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[As You Like It]

Edited! I didn't realize I had posted to this thread once before. Not surprisingly, my answer was still the same...first 1890s, then 1930s, because the wide-shoulder silhouettes of those eras work well for us women who have wide shoulders but otherwise slender figures.

I've actually modelled vintage clothing from both eras and know that the original styles from those eras work very well for my body type.

Apparently 5'5", 34" bust used to be dead common, because I have come across a lot of vintage/antique clothing that is right around my size.

I'm actually going to be making a circa 1909-style duster coat for my next winter coat (moderate leg-o-mutton sleeves) and an 1890s bloomer cycling suit, just because I can, and it will be freakin' awesome!

 

[tulip]

If there's one thing my swinging state of choosing clothes from has in common, it's my obsession with accessorizing;

Arab Beduion

Gypsy (Arrr!)

Flower Child

I also all the victorian, 20's/30's stuff posted previously..and especially adore purple's crown

 

[softgrey]

Originally posted by meowmix@Nov 8 2004, 11:34 PM

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thank for that meowmix...kate was the queen of androgyny...but she could also be smokingly feminine..a great role model for me...

 

[MulletProof]

 

[tulip]

Olden Spain:

 

[utopia]

as you like it, have you looked at janet arnold's book, patterns of fashion 1860 - 1940? I think there is a pattern in it for the type of coat you described.

as of late I've been really drawn to aesthetic clothing from the 19th century - I just wrote an essay on it, and the whole concept of it is so attractive. it's basically pre-art nouveau, so it's based on natural shapes, colours, textures and textiles - lots of beautiful draping, etc. I've always loved mediaeval clothing, and aesthetic clothing is based on the 13th century, but a little more decorative. absolutely gorgeous. if I'd lived in the 19th century, I think I definitely would have been a crazy eccentric aesthetic dresser.

 

[As You Like It]

Originally posted by utopia@Nov 10 2004, 05:52 AM
as you like it, have you looked at janet arnold's book, patterns of fashion 1860 - 1940? I think there is a pattern in it for the type of coat you described.

as of late I've been really drawn to aesthetic clothing from the 19th century - I just wrote an essay on it, and the whole concept of it is so attractive. it's basically pre-art nouveau, so it's based on natural shapes, colours, textures and textiles - lots of beautiful draping, etc. I've always loved mediaeval clothing, and aesthetic clothing is based on the 13th century, but a little more decorative. absolutely gorgeous. if I'd lived in the 19th century, I think I definitely would have been a crazy eccentric aesthetic dresser.

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I've got that book, and adore it. I drafted an 1890s day-dress based on one I modeled a few years ago, but haven't gotten around to buying a bolt of muslin to try it out yet.

The aesthetics were pretty cool. I think it was due in part to them that the leg-o-mutton sleeves came in in the first place, and the "Empire" revival of circa 1905-09, I think can be attributed to their influences, too.

I have a thing for Aesthetic interior decor. Bring on the Liberty wallpaper, Arts & Crafts furniture, and Japanese watercolor prints. Viva greenery-yallery!

 

[utopia]

Originally posted by As You Like It@Nov 10 2004, 09:13 AM
I've got that book, and adore it. I drafted an 1890s day-dress based on one I modeled a few years ago, but haven't gotten around to buying a bolt of muslin to try it out yet.

The aesthetics were pretty cool. I think it was due in part to them that the leg-o-mutton sleeves came in in the first place, and the "Empire" revival of circa 1905-09, I think can be attributed to their influences, too.

I have a thing for Aesthetic interior decor. Bring on the Liberty wallpaper, Arts & Crafts furniture, and Japanese watercolor prints. Viva greenery-yallery!

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another janet arnold fan - yay! I definitely agree about the sleeves and the empire thing. I don't think most people realise how many fashions that came after them were inspired by them, seemingly just an underground artsy fashion movement.
btw I think you'd love the arts and crafts course I'm doing - the one I wrote my essay for. it's all william morris, liberty, ashbee, etc - I so wish I could've lived back then and been an aesthetic. I've never been so giddy about a college course.

 

[Petit Lucille]

UH!! I like this.. But I actually don't care that nowadays no one wears this kind of clothes. I am planning of making really vintage clothes, like 1900's or 1800's to wear it whenever it's cold (back then they used an awful lot of fabric..)

But I manage to wear 20's and 40's, although it is difficult to make my eyebrows look like a line with make-up, without waxing it. And I don't have the feathers thinguis...

If I lived in a more daring country I'd wear whatever, particularly a seethru harem pant with a bikini underneath but if I walk the streets with a plain denim short I have yells from all around in this country where every man has the obligation to say something to the girl that's passing by..

 

[softgrey]

Originally posted by Putinha@Nov 10 2004, 10:00 AM


If I lived in a more daring country I'd wear whatever, particularly a seethru harem pant with a bikini underneath but if I walk the streets with a plain denim short I have yells from all around in this country where every man has the obligation to say something to the girl that's passing by..

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my dear...i am afraid that there is no place on the planet where seethru harem pants would not attract attention...

you will have to move to another planet...you can come with me to my alternate universe...

 

[Fade to Black]

I like the alternate universe idea...to expand on that I'd like to live in a world where everyone is dressed in razor sharp tailoring, slim black suits and trousers and Philippe Starck glasses...I like that cool, detached feel...but then again if everyone dressed like that it would get boring.

 

[utopia]

Originally posted by Fade to Black@Nov 10 2004, 11:45 AM
I like the alternate universe idea...to expand on that I'd like to live in a world where everyone is dressed in razor sharp tailoring, slim black suits and trousers and Philippe Starck glasses...I like that cool, detached feel...but then again if everyone dressed like that it would get boring.

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it'd also feel like the matrix. B)

 

[Petit Lucille]

Originally posted by Fade to Black@Nov 10 2004, 12:45 PM
I like the alternate universe idea...to expand on that I'd like to live in a world where everyone is dressed in razor sharp tailoring, slim black suits and trousers and Philippe Starck glasses...I like that cool, detached feel...but then again if everyone dressed like that it would get boring.

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Exaclty!! I want to live in a world where everyone is free to wear whatever they like without getting labled as wh*re or just get raped!!

 

[helena]

i do like medieval dress but I wold have hated to have lived in those times..... I think it would have to be late '20's Paris. Or 1910's somewhere bohemian where I could wear Paul Poiret...

But I think I like what I wear now, in this day & age.

softgrey - men wear skirts in Scotland.

 

[softgrey]

...i knew there was a reason i wanted to visit so badly...

 

[Shades of :]

Originally posted by softgrey@Nov 9 2004, 05:20 AM
i think i'd like to go forward in stead of back...or perhaps sideways into a parallel universe...where androgyny ruled... and everyone always looked lovely...

i want to live in a place and time where men wear skirts...
and women wear ties...

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I love the androgyny thing,

and wear skirts on regualer basis, often get comments if I dont at my local drinking hole...

 

[helena]

Originally posted by softgrey@Nov 10 2004, 12:10 PM
...i knew there was a reason i wanted to visit so badly...

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yes & have you heard about whats under the skirts........ nada!!!