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HARD AGREE. back when I did steampunk I wore a lot of grey and ivory and purple (altho not as daring a purple as that smoking jacket). I do like the whole sepia tone thing but it is harder to stand out when everyone else is in the same color scheme

See, that sounds elegant (and that smoking jacket is a purple to sear the eyes but hey, the first time they were able to get some of those colors as clothing dyes, let alone cheap dye, so they were excited about it. God knows I loathe the neon and glow-in-the-dark colors of the 80s and 90s just as much). Everyone shouldn’t be in the bright colors but exactly that if everyone is in the same sepia = old is doing it wrong.

(Also hey, I demand that any Superhero that does a Steampunk AU has zero excuse to not be as bright as Silver/Bronze Age colors)

Your opinion on jeans

Long personal body appearance and wardrobe choices rant

So I wear jeans a lot, obviously, but not actually as often as one would think. In the summer I have several pairs of jean shorts that are bermuda/board length. Only recently (as in last year/year before) have I bought shorts that are actually short shorts instead of cut-offs and capris. – I tend to not have too many capri-lengths because I’m so very much a petite person- barely more than five feet tall and fooling myself to thinking I am more than a hundred lbs (quick conversion = 1.5 m and 45 kg, ish) – my body-type is technically hourglass but my hips are narrow and my bust is small and my rib-cage worse- I am that very boney skinny bitch. If it wasn’t for how short I am, which eliminates a lot of clothes like maxi dresses and certain cuts of capris, I could get away with being far more daring in my clothing choices than I am. Like, objectively, I should think that I have great legs and should be showing them off and why aren’t I wearing booty shorts in the these 110°F heat index weather (today’s outside temp was only 92 = 33°C, but the heat index was higher)? But. Thick dark brown hair also means body hair and so I’m very self-conscious about showing skin.

I don’t wear jeans at work and ironically when I want to lounge around my house doing laundry and not going outside, to be super comfortable, is when I wear all my various cotton sundresses and skirts. Jeans and a t-shirt for me is weirdly a level or two above ‘super-causal heget as her most relaxed’.

Now petite and not liking the super-skinny trend (gah that’s annoying to put on and I have a few pairing of colored jeggings I wear under certain long shirts but mostly leggings are what I wear in the winter as a layer under my jeans or dress slacks for warmth like long underwear) means that’s it’s hard for me to find a pair and style I like (bootcut and I like low-rise more than highcut in general) means that it’s very hard to find jeans that I wouldn’t need to hem at least four inches from the bottom. When I do, I buy in bulk and then have to wait up to 10 years to go jean shopping again. (That ten years is not exaggerating- I finally bought new full-length jeans this spring and I think the last time I bought jeans I was in college?) I refuse to buy pre-distressed or acid-wash or any of that- that prudish purtain in me hates that people pay money for jeans with holes in them. Also I prefer dark denim, especially the really dark pure blues. But almost never have had black denim jeans, which is weird because my work clothes are almost all: decent shirt + black dress slacks (or the lone medium gray). 

So what colors besides medium and dark denim? I have a hunter green and a royal-ish blue and a pair of coral pink capris and the pale aqua jeggings, am looking for the right shade of red. I’ve very proud I’m adding color to my pants, slowly but surely. Oh, and some white and beige but not in jeans.

Uhhh, what else?

Okay, historical notes! Denim jeans are really cool because they’re older than people think and my very first real research paper for school in the fifth grade (ten years old) was about the San Francisco Gold Rush of ‘49 and I had a paragraph about jean pants as we know them with the rivet enforced pockets became popularized because of the prospectors (also the early versions were very much a popular sailors’ garment)

meeeeeemes. your opinion on neopets!

meeeeme asksssss! [giddy dance]

oh hahha okay confession time- my little sister played neopets causally back in..2002 or so? And I can’t remember if I made an account or or not but I remember she had some of the cute little critters and I know the sand/egyptian play theme had been up for a while and there was paintbrushes she wanted (one of the fairy ones?), but it was expensive, and there was a cheat for free food involving the soup kitchen. I don’t know how long she played it, but I know I only played attention for about a month. I can recognize a lot of the older critters if not by name, and I’m fond of these mostly free-to-play time-wasting virtual pet games, even if nowadays its more NekoAtsume and Pokemon Go (No, i don’t play PokemonGo though said sister and my mom are really into it minus any of the gym/fighting aspect). (Yes I have NekoAtsume on my kindle because I can check it every few days on lunch break and it’s cute without the guilt impulse to be constantly on-the-ball). But all the Neopets’ lore and fan community stuff and everything, I know there’s supposedly a big thing and the website got retooled – but idk *shrug emoji*

Me and MMORPGs and that community gameplay style and forums aren’t really a thing.

yavieriel replied to your photo:
fashionsfromhistory:
Smoking Suit
1870s
LACMA

that is terrifying and also why I approve of Steampunk not being _too_ accurate. I like looking like a sepia-toned photo not a circus clown. (Bright accent colors are getting more popular though.)

Personally I think it’s beyond hideous, and I also really don’t like most Victorian silhouettes and fashions to begin with- but yes. I don’t want all Steampunk outfits to be accurate awful synthetic Victorian dyes (though need to do more with that arsenic green dyes as story character-inspiration), but break away from the monotone. Or admit that the AU isn’t just ‘hey what if the technological advancements were more fantastic but what if they also had a more refined and elegant restraint to color use?’