#period clothing
[Transcript] When making clothes is your main hobby, eventually you’re gonna get to a place where you have more clothes than is honestly reasonable or useful to you.
(I) swear this problem is probably ten times worse when you’re into costuming. The amount of stuff that I have that I made ’cause it sounded fun, but I’ve never actually worn it anywhere is, frankly, embarrassing.
But that’s actually kind of the great thing about tiktok.
Now when I make something excessively elaborate for literally no reason and with nowhere to wear it, I can just show you guys instead!
When I need to straighten out my layers I just: [jumps up and down]
Today the look is “18th century garden party” and the occasion is nothing.
Weirdly this is one of the cheapest big fancy costumes I’ve ever made. When I made it I was pretty well aware that I was probably never actually gonna end up wearing it anywhere, so it’s just made out of quilt cotton. I paid, I think, five or six dollars a yard, and then it’s about twenty yards to make something like this.
There’s a matching hat, by the way.
So lately, I’ve been trying not to think of my hobby in terms of, “Do I need this?” “Will I wear it?” Honestly, that’s really just not the point. I make stuff like this because I think it’s fun to make. And I feel like that should be enough. [/Transcript]
Maria Alexandrovna (1824-1880), Empress of Russia, painted by Franz Xaver Winterhalter in 1857.
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Archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (1742-1798), painted by Marcello Bacciarelli in 1766.
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