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So I had to get nosy and do some research because It’s never occurred to me that this kind of effect was possible in the 19th century (upon reading the origins I was like “Oh Shit That’s what that is??”).
Fabric is made up of basically two parts while being woven, weft (which goes side to side), and warp (which goes up and down).
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This dress is made of Shot Silk, so named because of how the weft bobbin of a different color is “shot through” the warp color while the fabric is being woven. The silk in the original post is probably “Dove silk”, made of turquoise and magenta fibers which makes that striking iridescent grey color. It was popular all throughout the 18th century, especially in French fashions, and gained a popularity during the American Civil War (cotton production was disrupted and yielding smaller crops as the enslaved peoples involved with production of cotton were dealing with bigger fish to fry, like seeking freedom from slavery and trying not to die).
You might be more familiar with its use in cosplay spaces, specifically with One Disney Princess In Particular
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This fabric has so much potential in modern garment making, and I’m so shocked no one else has latched onto it for period pieces. Especially when we have documents suggesting that this technique has existed in Noble and Clergy circles since THE 700’S
yes! shot silk/changeable silk is so pretty. I see it fairly often in late 50s/early 60s party dresses, usually in really intense green/blue but sometimes in pink/orange or blue/purple.
This is what my university uses for the stoles of graduation gowns. Arts get blue-green, engineering gets red-orange, and science gets yellow-vomit
Also, shot silks had a great popularity during the late 1840’s to 1850’s. Of course shot silk was used before and after, but I focus more on Victorian era clothing.
what i love about the queer women rep in tlt is that so much of it is just like. gideon reading her titty magazines but getting zero action. ianthe trying to kiss harrow and getting rejected. harrow begging a hallucination of a corpse to have sex with her and getting rejected. marta turning down judith, judith turning down corona, corona unsuccessfully flirting with camilla. nona’s one-sided attraction to corona and camilla. camilla’s third-wheeling (x3) and plain lack of interest in getting it on with anyone. gideon and ianthe fighting over harrow when they’re both losing out to a frozen ice bimbo. ‘but she never gave you anything. you never got anywhere.’ ‘did you???’ << honestly sums it up.
Corporations are responsible for more environmental damage and inequalities than any individual ever could
And
There are conveniences and luxuries we’ll have to give up to see the changes we wanna see
Are two concept that can and should co-exist.
Yes, corporations create more emission than any household ever could, but individually owned cars is still one of the biggest factors of emission. The most resource efficient way for cities to grow is densifying, and that would mean more high rise condos and less single-detached houses, and no more new suburbs. Suburban living increases the car dependency and resources like energy and water needs to travel further, therefore putting a greater toll on energy grid. Yes fashion brand dump tons of textile into the landfill but they are also serving a consumer base who purchase new cloth and dump them every year.
This doesn’t mean the good feelings you have from these things (the freedom of driving, the warm fuzzy feeling of your childhood house, the joy of having new cloth) are Evil. It just means that as individuals, what we want is not necessarily sustainable on an ever-growing scale.
This also doesn’t mean you gotta give up all of them right away. While living under capitalism, our individual effort to deny ourselves of simple luxuries and conveniences is not gonna save the world. And there’s no point feeling guilt for living the best you can under the system you’re a part of. However, you need to make peace with what you’re willing to give up when the time comes for systematic change, so you’re not defending your backyard from people having a home, so you’re not defending your right to drive from people’s need to breath.
happy summer to dykes in tank tops and basketball shorts, goths who’s makeup is melting, little kids catching frogs and fireflies, guys who just bring their guitar everywhere now, 13 yr olds very obviously in their emo phase during a family vacation, gas station employees, old people sitting on porches, and dogs swimming at the beach
Not knowing that you have a villain inside you, a hero, and a bystander is a lesson that everyone should learn.
What is the quote from Jingo, by Sir Terry Pratchett, to the effect of “when someone does something terrible, we want it to be one of Them, because if it isn’t Them, then it is Us?”
“It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn’t then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.”
Jingo. 1997. Pratchett, Terry. NY, London, and Ankh-Morpork: Harper-Collins. p. 205
There needs to be way, way more of a conversation about how being unable to drive in America means you don’t get to participate in society. That shit is genuinely life ruining. My neuro shit has kept me from driving my whole life and it’s always meant I can’t go do stuff I want to, I can’t get the trade jobs I know I’d be good at, I can’t even see the people I want to. Unless you’re in one of a handful of major cities in the US with decent transit systems, you’re basically expected to drop dead if you can’t drive.
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