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I am finally coming out of what was effectively a five-day migraine, with the last two days having been particularly bad, and I wanted to do something nice with the last of the light.
A thing I cannot do without further outlay on my part and/or the labor of other people is convincingly cosplay a dapper dresser from 1824. A thing I can do trivially out of my own closet is at least semi-convincingly cosplay a canonically eccentric dresser from 1940. Fire watch was right out on account of not owning a tin hat, however, and the ordinary mask will be standing in for the gas-mask case of the proper year.
A major impediment to this project was finding stretches of street deserted for at least the minute or so necessary for my face to be safely unmasked. It was like a guerrilla fashion shoot. Experimentally desaturated to see what it did for the patterns.
We did find a nice niche of brick.
And the scaffolding over School Street. Rob kept trying to capture the swing of the coat as I walked. We thought this one succeeded.
This attempt turned to Impressionism, but I like it.
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There were too many dog-walkers in the community park—and too many of them bare-faced—for me to lose the mask, but Rob likes it.
He thinks this one should be an album cover.
In my office, out of trenchcoat. Nearly all books in this shot are anachronisms, but the 1899 Kipling is doing its best.
Look, I have one grey jacket and it's not my fault if it resets the ensemble to Edwardian.
Always worth checking that north is where you left it.
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spatch and all inspiration by selkie, cf. her newly completed WWII AU "St. Clair and Fleming Do the Blitz." You should also check out yhlee's "Ninefox March," because it took him almost nine years to compose and it was worth the time. I really like this thing of having friends who make art.
A thing I cannot do without further outlay on my part and/or the labor of other people is convincingly cosplay a dapper dresser from 1824. A thing I can do trivially out of my own closet is at least semi-convincingly cosplay a canonically eccentric dresser from 1940. Fire watch was right out on account of not owning a tin hat, however, and the ordinary mask will be standing in for the gas-mask case of the proper year.
A major impediment to this project was finding stretches of street deserted for at least the minute or so necessary for my face to be safely unmasked. It was like a guerrilla fashion shoot. Experimentally desaturated to see what it did for the patterns.
We did find a nice niche of brick.
And the scaffolding over School Street. Rob kept trying to capture the swing of the coat as I walked. We thought this one succeeded.
This attempt turned to Impressionism, but I like it.
There were too many dog-walkers in the community park—and too many of them bare-faced—for me to lose the mask, but Rob likes it.
He thinks this one should be an album cover.
In my office, out of trenchcoat. Nearly all books in this shot are anachronisms, but the 1899 Kipling is doing its best.
Look, I have one grey jacket and it's not my fault if it resets the ensemble to Edwardian.
Always worth checking that north is where you left it.
All pictures taken by
spatch and all inspiration by selkie, cf. her newly completed WWII AU "St. Clair and Fleming Do the Blitz." You should also check out yhlee's "Ninefox March," because it took him almost nine years to compose and it was worth the time. I really like this thing of having friends who make art.
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Thank you.
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I would scream, but you’ve had that headache!!! It would be rude!!! These are amazingly gorgeous!!!! I had to email Spatch anyway so I will thank him in the conventional human way as opposed to in gleeful whalesong!
You ought to have gone into moving pictures, because yes, it’s good Eccentric I Do What I Want And Also No New Clothes Exist in 1940! Cosplay, but also you really look in character.
Thank you. *hugs* You have now made art about my art while introducing me to other art! A tinsel star to the crown of your good name.
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Of course the compass!
I would scream, but you’ve had that headache!!! It would be rude!!! These are amazingly gorgeous!!!! I had to email Spatch anyway so I will thank him in the conventional human way as opposed to in gleeful whalesong!
My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my brother thanks you, and my trigeminal nerve thanks you!
(And your kid is cute even when they communicate at dolphin pitch, so we're good.)
You ought to have gone into moving pictures, because yes, it’s good Eccentric I Do What I Want And Also No New Clothes Exist in 1940! Cosplay, but also you really look in character.
Thank you. I take the compliment seriously, but I also point out that 2020 really brought the Blitz atmosphere.
You have now made art about my art while introducing me to other art! A tinsel star to the crown of your good name.
You are always and very welcome.
*hugs*
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Thank you!
(My birthstone in the traditional system is Opal, or sometimes Tourmaline, neither of which is an element, of course, but then neither are half the Elements themselves.)
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Thank you!
I am very pleased about the wardrobe. It is entirely mine—some hand-me-down, but some not—and especially in a year without conventions, I am glad to have a use for it.
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Thank you!
I will keep this data point in mind.
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Also, I'm sorry to hear about the migraine, that sounds horrid - mine only last a day at most. I hope you're feeling much better!
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I shall tell
Also, I'm sorry to hear about the migraine, that sounds horrid - mine only last a day at most. I hope you're feeling much better!
Thank you. I am by now! But it was an extended unpleasant experience.
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"and I wondered, does anyone remember the epilogue of Mary Gentle's Ash books?"
Oh, yes!
Coincidentally, non-DW friends were just squeeing over these eccentrically stylish dressers: https://mymodernmet.com/gunther-krabbenhoft-britt-kanja-senior-style/?fbclid=IwAR1YsmmN3GJNZBRPALeRCeeBdeRJxMPeQs6N_A-B8KXeKsuumZ9ZxJa9Ol4
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And as with the epilogue of those books, I consider this story canonical, just the slight next history over.
Coincidentally, non-DW friends were just squeeing over these eccentrically stylish dressers
Oh, neat! I had seen nothing about them. Thanks for the link!
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You look fantastic in fantastic photos at least?
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Thank you! I am feeling much better by now, and very glad to have felt well enough to go out for a photoshoot.
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I'm very sorry about the five-day migraine, that's vicious.
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Thank you!
I'm very sorry about the five-day migraine, that's vicious.
And thank you. It took several days to figure out what was going on, too, which didn't mean that I was doing the wrong things for it, just that I kept expecting it to break and it kept on not.
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Period fashion shoot is very fine - I'd like to see it with a hat (prefereably not tin) ...
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I want you to know I checked the text over to be sure on this point.
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*hugs*
It’s a shame, because you do look AWESOME in a period-relevant hat. But the cry of the migratory Valet Domesticus Hitchensis remains “Gloves! Hat!” long after the first-rate house and high flyer have gone.
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I recognize Doylistically he evolved after the novelette had established its terms, but what is Hitchens doing in WWII? Codemaking-or-breaking, with his astronomy and maths?
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On September 4, 1939, he came to supper at the FitzGeorges’ and brought a two-pound tin of tea, a bolt of elastic, and a gross of Kirby grips for Rose’s hair.
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Thank you! I thought so!
Period fashion shoot is very fine - I'd like to see it with a hat (prefereably not tin) ...
I went without partly because I own exactly one hat that might or might not go with the decade and partly because as far as I could tell the character didn't seem to wear one. I would like a suitable hat one of these years, but I think not this one. And thank you!
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It’s probably under the piano.
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(One of the things on my to-do list for 2021 is to find a good pattern for Regency-style men's shirts and figure out how to make them; if I do I'll let you know! Eccentric 1940 is a great look but I am also happy to support the achievement of Dapper 1824.)
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I DID NOT ENJOY IT.
(One of the things on my to-do list for 2021 is to find a good pattern for Regency-style men's shirts and figure out how to make them; if I do I'll let you know! Eccentric 1940 is a great look but I am also happy to support the achievement of Dapper 1824.)
Thank you! I should warn you that I have had two people who do professional costuming offer to make me a Regency shirt, and both of them have since fallen off the map in different ways, and I don't want to subsume you into a cursed project. But I appreciate the thought and if it becomes relevant, I will take you up on it, and no matter what I think it would be cool if you figured the shirtmaking out.
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Thank you!
*hugs*
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The waistcoat is excellent on you--but we knew that.
I love
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Thank you! It is like your water-writing. It looks like a harbor at night, but it must have been a passing car.
The waistcoat is excellent on you--but we knew that.
I remain very fond of it.
I love yhlee's piece. I will *purchase it*
Hooray!
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Thank you!
And oh, I have bookcase envy.
Please don't; it's just my office. More than three-quarters of our mutual library is still in storage.
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Thank you!