Fanfic Inspiration

[Fallenbelle]

Of course, I come across this article on my FB and it immediately made me think of possibilities for fanfic. 

blog.fidmmuseum.org/museum/2014/06/underpinnings-c-1900-1903.html

I need help. 

[snacky]

Jul 12, 2014 20:23:00 GMT Fallenbelle said:

Of course, I come across this article on my FB and it immediately made me think of possibilities for fanfic. 

blog.fidmmuseum.org/museum/2014/06/underpinnings-c-1900-1903.html

I need help. 

#fanningself

ITA, that is the height of seductiveness, and we need to see Julia in that outfit ASAP!



Moreover, I want to wear this. Every day. Even though I'd probably need a made to get into it and an expensive laundry service to keep it clean.

Also I'm glad they are bringing up Art Nouveau: I so wanted that to be all theme-y in the wedding, but it doesn't look like that will happen.

Vogue - THE LEGALLY BLOND BIBLE! - existed in 1900!!!!



Though Godey's Lady's Book was probably the Bible then.

[snacky]

Actually the content of Godey's Lady's Book (which ceased production in 1898, so it can't be the Edwardian Bible Vogue) seems indicative of what was going on in the "domestic sphere" in the late 19th century. I shall quote Wikipedia here:

The magazine is best known for the hand-tinted fashion plate that appeared at the start of each issue, which provide a record of the progression of women's dress....Almost every issue also included an illustration and pattern with measurements for a garment to be sewn at home. A sheet of music for piano provided the latest waltz, polka or galop.

Edgar Allan Poe had one of his earliest short stories "The Visionary" (later renamed "The Assignation") printed in Godey's in 1834....Other contributors included Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Washington Irving, James Kirke Paulding, William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Parker Willis,[14] and Frances Hodgson Burnett.

I see: interest in fashion, patterns for sewing at home, piano music, and a vibrant interest in literature.

By the way this interest in literature, and the popular culture of the day (famous singers, light opera, theater, vaudeville, dancers...) is extremely prominent in a memoir I'm reading about San Francisco that covers the MM period. In the US there was a clear streak of "New York envy", but I think that was displaced Euro Envy. But interestingly, when the woman who wrote the memoir actually went to England to be introduced to society (she was actually introduced to Queen Victoria!), she found everything frightfully shabby compared to the splendor of the American nouveau riche palaces! The gilded age is just on the horizon.

Anyway, this post is for people who wonder what folks did with their evenings before there was TV and the Internet. Before many people had phones or even electric lighting. Getting out of the house and pub crawling was also popular. But when you had to stay at home and entertain yourselves, it was all about sewing, reading stories out loud (or Bible stuff, I guess), and music around the piano.

[Fallenbelle]

Jul 12, 2014 20:49:17 GMT snacky said:

Jul 12, 2014 20:23:00 GMT Fallenbelle said:

Of course, I come across this article on my FB and it immediately made me think of possibilities for fanfic. 

blog.fidmmuseum.org/museum/2014/06/underpinnings-c-1900-1903.html

I need help. 

#fanningself

ITA, that is the height of seductiveness, and we need to see Julia in that outfit ASAP!



Moreover, I want to wear this. Every day. Even though I'd probably need a made to get into it and an expensive laundry service to keep it clean.

Also I'm glad they are bringing up Art Nouveau: I so wanted that to be all theme-y in the wedding, but it doesn't look like that will happen.

Vogue - THE LEGALLY BLOND BIBLE! - existed in 1900!!!!



Though Godey's Lady's Book was probably the Bible then.

The crazy thing is, it's not even an outfit. It's underwear. 

I'd totally love to wear something like it as well.  

[snacky]

Jul 13, 2014 3:37:59 GMT Fallenbelle said:

The crazy thing is, it's not even an outfit. It's underwear. 

I'd totally love to wear something like it as well.  

The stockings are gorgeous, but again I wouldn't want to deal with the laundry.

MM hasn't dealt nearly enough with the Pre-Raphaelite, Art Nouveau, Decadence, Fauves, any of the new aesthetics besides that brush with Mrs. Pendrick's bohemianism. They should really do more of this as a contrast to the staid, middle class bureaucratism that William symbolizes.

[Fallenbelle]

Jul 13, 2014 3:53:07 GMT snacky said:

Jul 13, 2014 3:37:59 GMT Fallenbelle said:

The crazy thing is, it's not even an outfit. It's underwear. 

I'd totally love to wear something like it as well.  

The stockings are gorgeous, but again I wouldn't want to deal with the laundry.

MM hasn't dealt nearly enough with the Pre-Raphaelite, Art Nouveau, Decadence, Fauves, any of the new aesthetics besides that brush with Mrs. Pendrick's bohemianism. They should really do more of this as a contrast to the staid, middle class bureaucratism that William symbolizes.

Well, darling, that's clearly what the help is for! Ladies don't do chores! (Or that's what I tell my husband!) 

Yes, more art nouveau is a wonderful thing! Beautiful ladies doing shocking things that shock our dear boys.  Giggle worthy!

[snacky]

Jul 14, 2014 22:36:05 GMT Fallenbelle said:

Well, darling, that's clearly what the help is for! Ladies don't do chores! (Or that's what I tell my husband!) 

Yes, more art nouveau is a wonderful thing! Beautiful ladies doing shocking things that shock our dear boys.  Giggle worthy!

I'd like to learn more about the Decadence Movement, too! I thought some of that was going with Sally Pendrick?