Facing my regency phobia
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 มิ.ย. 2024
- The thrift store made me do it.
00:00 the nightmare begins
00:55 into the regency
03:25 nerdy textile history content
05:39 doing the deed
09:28 help has arrived
13:42 finishing touches
15:41 ...to be continued?
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Finally acquainting myself with Jane Austen was an experience. I do like her writing, and I did enjoy the lighthearted fun and wit in it. Still, I found myself reading these stories as a kind of gender horror, where if you fail at the aristocratic regency marriage market you just ...fall off the face of the earth or something equivalent. The horror in that premise really undercut the fun for me, and that inspired me to have some fun with this video.
I know a lot of you out there adore Jane Austen, a lot of you have mixed feelings, and a lot of you probably got interested in historical clothes through loving period dramas, and I'm not here to yuck your yum (uh, consanguinity aside. I'll yuck that). The only way for me to get in on the frilly regency fun without like... fracturing my sense of self was to be a little silly about it. To any Janeites: I hope you enjoy witnessing my struggles as I come over to the dark side. ❤️
Also I just want to say thanks so much to everyone who has watched my videos and left sweet comments in the last few months. I'm super bad at responding to them because I'm bad at socializing on the internet, but they totally make my day! Thank you!
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The horror editing. THE HORROR EDITING!!! Genuinely made me laugh with joy. This was delightful. And I love your improvisations along the way! I *love* seeing someone take period elements and playing with it to make it work for them.
Yes!!! I had a couple giggle fits editing this and I'm so happy to have made someone else giggle too haha
Stating with Mansfield Park was definitely a choice 😄
I love the eerie ting every time a regency (death of) fashion plate pops up😭
I’m with you on just Not. Having. Regency. This is one of a couple of eras that I just am like “WHAT were they THINKING!” The other is men’s fashions of the 1970s. Leisure suits. What were they thinking???? Anyway, what you are ACTUALLY doing with this is remarkable. Thanks for the tube/string trick!
FINALLY, someone who also doesn't like Regency! You made the best of it, though, it's a wonderful take on the period. Not too sweet, and as a huge fan of your hennin, I'm excited for bonnet content!
Glad you liked it! :)
i think it looks quite elegant
Thank you! I'm warming to it myself haha
oh man I was nodding along with how absurd regency fashion is, and then suddenly remembered how i used to wear a dress-up bonnet all the time as a kid :')
keen for part two!! or whatever's next! This dress turned out so nice!
Aw cute. Thank you! Part two is coming! :)
Beautifully ominous script + production. I've watched a lot of TH-cam videos that _should_ have called the first chapter "into the nightmare" but not enough that actually do.
The dress turned out well, I think; I especially like the braided tuck on the sleeves. And your mistrust of the period really shines through. The destruction of the Indian textile industry under the Raj? Excessive millinery? Cousin-shtupping? There's a lot to dislike.
Thank you! I gotta say, this project really endeared me to braided trim and rouleaux generally.
It is SUCH a complicated and interesting period. I started researching it being like "why is regency fashion so weird?" and ended up with "oh...regency fashion is like the Forrest Gump of everything that's wrong with the modern world."
You remain hilarious ❤
Happy to bring giggles ❤️
I've never seen anything so regency dramatic lolz. but well done
Does anyone else trace a hesitancy toward Regency silhouettes to when empire-waisted (and bubble/banded-hem, even worse) tunics were all over stores in the 2000s? It's funny, because I've seen a couple of people reference body types, but there doesn't seem to be a clear consensus on what is the ideal body type for Regency.
I didn't like the 2000s tunics as a small-busted, long-torsoed, wide-hipped girl, because they hid my waist and made me feel shapeless. Someone else here has said they don't like Regency because they're busty and short-waisted. And all I can remember from actual Austen re: body type is a) tall is good, and b) plump is good, but they all wore the same silhouette anyway.
oh man, I HATED those tops and dresses. I've owned one empire waisted thing in my life and I think I wore it twice.
I think it must be as much about sense of style and self-image as it is about body type. When I put on an empire waisted thing I feel at once childish and matronly, and I think some people have the energy to carry that off in a *feminine goddess* sort of way.
I get flashbacks to it all the time! I used to have this purple tunic shirt thing where the chest piece sort of ended right at the underbust and the rest of the shirt just hung, easily covering my butt. I used to love it because I was insecure about that whole entire part of my body (low rise jeans being a thing didn't help at all either), but looking back...hmmmmmm
(it wasn't a bubble/banded hem either; those were golden finds back in the day!)
Love your editing style - hello from a fellow Regency fashion avoider 👀 I made this JA dress once many years ago and something must've gone wrong when I was scaling it up because it ended up so uncomfortably tight that wearing it gives me a shoulder cramp 🥴
Hey!
I don't show all the fit changes here but I DEFINITELY lengthened the shoulders a lot. They were teeny.
Cute, I have to agree with you on the Regency dresses, it's a bit much. Loving the content and your sense of humor is hilarious!
So glad you enjoy it! :)
Have you seen bridgeton?? Their dresses arent that bad tbh!! At first I wasnt sure how I felt about it but the dresses started to grow on me 😫🤣
Haha they're starting to grow on me a bit too
love it! i just went to a regency ball with my simple-but-pretty historically-adequate dress...but yours is so much prettier!!
Glad you like it! I'm sure yours was absolutely regal 👸
oh yes, definitely you need a bonnet.
i get this regency aversion lol honestly anything past the 15th c. is too much for me
Hehe I think most historical costumers can be sorted into "started medieval" and "started regency"
Only period dress I ever tried (for a Boar's Head fundraising banquet/concert) was 12th century. Managed to give it some elegance as I had fake fur similar to sable to line the hem and the sleeves. However, wimples look just as 💩as bonnets. So happy to have landed in the 20th/21st century from 50s Dior onward.
Very cool 😀
Cool, will save this for beer time this evening :) Good to see you back.
ayy! TGIF😎
@@making.history Aye, here's to Friday (chug chug chug) Blaarp.
Fantastic result. Love that you included your improvisations along the way. And, yeah, Regency. As a busty human being with a short waist... um, not really for me, thanks. But, beyond the Hamilton jacket, none of the designs really speak to me. This may be why Jane Austin is still on my to-do list. Cousins marrying. Yeah. It was also a thing in the Outer Hebrides. Henry Rollins has this phrase to describe it - "chromenoal distress".
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
Thank you! Oh that's so interesting. I can force myself to appreciate everything else if I try really hard, but the jackets.....they're a bridge I just CANNOT cross haha.
@@making.history I have a soft spot for boleros. It's the only way I have a waist...
@@making.history B. Banner was correct to leave off the, um, "leaf" details at the sleeve heads of the Hamilton Jacket. They're very, er, suggestive. Last thing I need is somebody noticing it and calling it out on the main street whilst on the way to the grocery store... to that I say "no thank you" for the sleeve detailing at the shoulder of that (eventual) make...
I dunno. It's like the Regency purged the all fluffy stuff too soon. So all the Floof boomeranged right hard into the accoutrements... I... yeah... no...
Then there's the 'you did What to your hair"... ugh.
Regency. Cousins marrying. There's a reason that there are freckles in the Outer Hebrides. Apparently marital family member opportunities abounded and were in fashion in the 1700's... (insert eye roll and 'sigh'). I start to sunburn in 20 minutes - we Scotts were apparently not invaded enough??? I live with the legacy of 'chromosonal distress' (thank you Henry Rollins). I won't even get into the dentistry disasters that lie in my future...
Anyways... ;)
5:54 So...PREgency?
You're hired!
Aww I don’t care if you hate it. You looked like a tattooed angel.
Haha thank you. I'm coming around to it :)
The silhouette is looking very nice!
Will this be a series?
Thank you! Yesss. Not sure when the next installment will come out, but I'm working away on it :)
@@making.history that sounds like fun to watch.
You are brave! Jokes aside, I always love the historic background information you add. Thanks for sharing, I’m looking forward to the next episode!
Try reading Georgette Heyer! Regency is not just Jane Austin!
I dislike regency as well. I believe that it is a style umbrella which suits a certain body type, into which I have no hope of ever falling. But the ones whom it is meant for, glory but does it flatter!!
Unrelated: you have lovely hands/wrists/forearms (what is the wrist attached to?)
Yeah, as much as I dislike it for myself, I'm glad the regency is out there as an option for people who don't like the fitted waists of just about every other decade in history.
why thank you! No one's ever said that before. 💅 yes, haha. Forearm sound right.
Bonnet in part 2?!
You know it!
I am not a fan of regency either. I do, however, love that dress.
Thank you!
Even worst than regency...there is the infamous, horrible, ugly 1830 fashion.
I absolutely ADORE your channel! So wonderfully full of dark humour & acknowledging openly the evil side of historical dress. Regency looks like they're wearing nightdresses accessorised with bits from an import home decor store like rugs, lampshades & fruit bowls. Also I'm over sewing channels where entitled, privileged young white women churn out endless garments worth thousands of dollars without even blinking an eyelid, without caring about whose culture they appropriate or insult in the process (if I see another fake tartan Victorian or 'Queens Underwear' dress, I'll scream). How about they're being 'historically accurate' but only willing to make brand new rich people's clothing; unlike most real people who live/d both then & now, having to make things last & refashion them over & over. How about the environment? No, apparently you don't have to give a shit about the earth if you can churn out new gowns every week. Love your work, keep it up when you can. Best wishes.
Thank you so much! The love is very appreciated.
Ok, "nightdresses accessorised with bits from an import home decor store" is a FANTASTIC way to put it haha. It literally is exactly what it is haha. And on top of that there is a throughline of undress being the part of western fashion that orientalist, or just imported, trends get wedged into first. From banyans to pajamas.