"How to look good in a dress" or, you know, whatever you want to wear!

(I am definitely not the best person to talk about this, but here we are.)

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Making of The Gentlethem Pirate: The Stays

Since I screwed up the pants the first go round and had to wait for the new fabric to wash and dry I started on the stays.

I used the most excellent Custom Corset Generator from ElizabethanCostume.net and some alphanumeric paper (that I discovered wasn't accurately spaced to an inch like it was supposed to be) to create my pattern and transferred it to sturdier Ikea paper after a quick mockup.

The elder niblet decided on this burgundy/gold brocade and I was able to find a remnant of burgundy duck canvas for the lining.

Since I had the pattern and time I was able to order bones to the right length from Wawak.com. I marked and sewed all the boning channels (by machine because I don't hate myself). I also opted for grommets over hand binding eyelets in case they outgrow it.

However, I couldn't completely avoid hand sewing since I didn't leave enough room for the bones to not be in the binding so I spent the evening sewing down bias tape.

Et voila, stays and a shirt done.

Tomorrow we tackle pants 2.0.

The Shirt

The completed Afro Victorian ensemble. More to come.

Girl.

You’re always gorgeous, but this is beyond.

This is so cute!!💖

by Chotronette of Romania

Yes, I will take all of these, thank you.

I have one and it is true to form and fits like an absolute dream…

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so distinguished!

Anyway CHECK OUT MY WINTER WARDROBE FOR THE REST OF TIME

Here’s some snap chats of my tux dress 😀 I designed it myself! 😛 as a genderfluid I was really worried about wearing a dress but wanting to be in a tux yet nothing about the tux excited me. It’s a button up with ruffles on the front bro?? And this was for Prom bro. So I combined the two! If anyone else wants to make a tux dress, I recommend getting a skirt that best compliments your body type (for me, that was a skirt that hit me at my tiny waist and a high low skirt is just really fun!) and getting a tux shirt with a cummerbund,then putting the cummerbund over where the skirt meets the tux shirt. For the jacket I used a small blazer instead of a suit jacket because I didn’t fit into any of the guy’s jackets at the men’s warehouse department 😢 but it looked better with something that fit me anyway. then for the look overall I went with a white black red color palette since that’s a common color palette for tuxes. Accessorize as you please! The outfit pieces: Jacket- forever 21 Tux shirt, cummerbund, bow tie, button covers- the men’s warehouse department Skirt-http://tinyurl.com/z727vjf Ameynra Fashion High Low Skirt, White Chiffon, with ruffle and underskirt (I got the medium and requested the front to be 14 inches and the back is 37 inches) Thigh highs- hot topic Shoes- Mina’s shoes (some cheapy shoe store I found next to DD’s discounts)

Oh my god I love this I need one. This is my aesthetic.

@moonshroom420

Tony Chaaya Evening Dresses 2016 Collection 

this tops everything👑 they did that

Shit this is amazing

Damn, they look really nice

I’m going to need this dress for my cousins wedding 😂

Oh ma GAWD

I’m telling y'all, Seniors of 2k16 been fucking shit up.

Drop dead gorgeous 😍🔥

i gasped

Watch 100 Years Of Black Men’s Hair Trends In One Minute

Hair and politics are always intertwined.

Come THRU

Public Service Announcement:  If you are not a virgin do not presume to wear a white wedding dress.  It is an honor that is earned from chastity and virtue.  Not a tradition for you to soil if you lacked the same.

what about anal? does it count

The idea that the white wedding dress is “an honor that is earned from chastity and virtue” is historically bullshit. 

In the west the white wedding dress has it’s origins in the Victorian era, specifically in the white dress Queen Victoria wore in her marriage to Prince Albert. At the time, red was the most popular color for upper-class women to wear at their wedding, and her wedding dress was sort of the contemporary version of Lady Gaga wearing some outlandish outfit to a red carpet event. (She also eschewed the ermine and crown traditional for a queen to wear, which was quite startling to many people.)

After that, a pure white dress became a fashionable way for wealthy, upper-class women to show off their money. Because a pure white dress would quickly yellow and could be ruined by a single spill or a little dirt in an era before 20th century laundering techniques, a white wedding dress was a way of saying “that’s right bitches, I’m so rich I can afford to have this beautiful, elaborate gown made for me and I’m only going to wear it once. Plus odds are good I’ll never work a day in my life or come into contact with anything that might soil it so yeah, great to be me, right?”

Connotations of spiritual purity and eventually virginity only came years later, when the idea of a “white wedding” began to appear in etiquette and housekeeping guidebooks. Even then, it was more because these qualities were associated with upper-class women rather than because the white dress was an honor earned through keeping hands off one’s genitals. Even then, most women just wore their best church dress to their wedding for quite a while. It was the image of thew white wedding dress in post WWII Hollywood movies that finally cemented it as a standard and iconic part of the culture.

Nowadays of course, the American wedding is an orgy of conspicuous consumption, and every woman regardless of her financial situation is expected to get married in a dress she’ll never wear again.

tl;dr, that tradition you’re so keen on protecting has less to do with virginity than is does with showing off big wads of cash.

Poor people would traditionally wear their Sunday best to get married in. They were usually black, brown or other dark colours, because Sunday Best outfits had to last for years and be appropriate for all occasions, including funerals. 

Reblogged for historical debunking

I’m always in favor of historical debunking that also gives the middle finger to Magical Virginity.

i’ll have sex the morning of the ceremony and walk down the aisle in a white dress if i want