10k views in the first 4 days on my first long-form video 🥲🫶🏻 Thanks to all watching and commenting. I am SO grateful and currently working on my next video (mic issues resolved and will be out of this temp filming location).
I was talking to a lady last week, she told me she was at a conference and this other woman had a stunning blue skirt & jacket combination, she told her she looked great and asked where she bought it? Her grandfather had made it for her grandmother in 1940. That story made me so happy for some reason.
I like wearing old style suits, and I'm sometimes seen as having a bit of a grandpa style. I've been compared to my grandfather, even though I never got to meet him.
Years ago I read a diary account of a ball given in London in the 1840s (I think it was at Holland House but may have been Buckingham Palace) and it was hilarious. Basically a young woman was complaining that all the women over 60 were dressed with their boobs and shoulders on display, had loads of rouge and powder on, and were basically roaring drunk. It was like reading the diary of a vegan gen Z at a boomer BBQ.😂
So shaming fashion of a bygone era isn't a new thing. In 50 years, the young generation will look at the fashions of now "funny looking" " unflattering" "unattractive" And chances are they will comment about how dirty and smelling we are.
There's an exchange in (IIRC) _Mrs. McGinty's Dead_ that notes this trend. They're looking at old photos, and an older woman is ruefully acknowledging a young woman saying how silly they look to modern eyes. In response, a young man reassures her that the young woman will feel much the same in a few decades.
Right now i question the fashion styles of today 😂 (because i prefer more vintage and historical fashion styles patially) because: why do all the shirts have to be cropped? I mean i like it but my dad complains every time i wear one (and im 24)
@@stunt-girl okay fair enough lol. My mind went to how in the modern day we've never washed more and never needed to wash less so if anything I expect we'll realize it's better for skin and hair to wash every other day or twice a week
There's a passage in "Gone With the Wind" where Scarlett is reflecting on a portrait of her grandmother (or great grandmother?) and how scandalous she was, including wetting her petticoats so her dress would stick to her legs and her body shape was shown. And plus plus boobies.
I'm working at an 1820s historic site right now, and so the transition from Regency silhouettes into Victorian is taking up my entire brain. Thank you for a marvelous dissection of a fascinating topic!
It's just like the super-cinched "wasp waist" was only a thing for a decade or two, and here we are over a century later being like "GEEEAHHHHHHHH" I didn't realize it until someone else on TH-cam (I wish I remembered who!) pointed it out. Then I was like 🤯 Until then, I thought that ultra-tight-lacing was as old as corsets.
I love how cultural context heavy this video is!! that was my favorite part to read about when I studied art history. I literally bookmarked the sources so I can devour them later.
I was listening and when i heard "Jane Eyre is set in the Victorian period" I was all NO IT WAS NOT BLANCHE ET AL HAD TURBANS ETC and i was so relieved to hear you refute it!!!
This is fascinating… I’ve read so many “Regency Romances” in which the protagonists have values and perspectives imported from the time in which they were written (like, 90s flavoured feminist astride-riding cheroot-smoking liberated-but chaste-young women). I never realized that Charlotte Brontë did it first!
@@aliciavquinn I wasn't as into the western frontier, pirate or medieval costume romances, but I expect the authors projected modern sensibilities in the same way... or maybe there IS something about the Regency woman. Sitting in a parlour plying the only trades allowed--attracting a husband and commenting on one's peers--it's a particularly blank canvas...? 🤔
Congrats on your first long video! I enjoyed every bit of it. It's very interesting how a generation rejects the previous one in different ways. For future topic suggestions, as a music scholar, I'm interested in how you would approach the relation of fashion with opera, burlesque, and theater, from how people dressed for going to the opera to how costumes influenced fashion. Thanks for the great content!
What a fascinating topic that I had never really considered before. I’m ashamed to admit, I’ve never read any of the Brontë’s while I’ve devoured Jane Austen. I’m making a resolution to read Jane Eyre this year. I’ve watched several biographies of the Brontë sisters last year, and I’m really interested in finally reading their body of works. I’ll go into it with the fashion history knowledge from this video. While I adore Jane Austen, Regency fashion isn’t my favorite silhouette. Bustle era and late Victorian fashion and 18th century are my favorite eras. It’s always a delight to discover that people share certain ways of thinking across time and space. To learn about the shade Victorians threw on the Regency Era, cracks me up. As far as away as those time periods can feel, people are people, aren’t they. I’m really enjoying your videos so far. Very educational and thought provoking. Great start!
I've always wondered, why would women be willing to give up the comfort and ease of motion of Regency clothing for the up to 40 pounds of underwear worn by upper-class Victorian women just before the advent of the cage crinoline. The only explanation I've ever come up with is, "Conspicuous consumption." It's interesting to learn that the next generation actually found Regency clothing indecent. Aesthetically, the Regency era isn't my favorite, but I cannot deny how practical the clothing was. The most practical Western women's clothing since the supportive kirtle, in my opinion.
Conspicuous consumption absolutely played a role, as well! I think a lot of Victorian fashion is beautiful, but yeah, I’d rather take Regency fashion any day.
Went to go binge the rest of your videos after loving this one and literally cried when i saw this was your only one 😢😢😢 pls pls pls post again as soon as you can!! Youre amazing!! ❤
Thank you for the fashion history video essay! Definitely excited for more. I like how your comparing and contrasting involved like, the social worries and values of their respective timessss
Also now I can't help but make the connection with the rise of AI and climate change with the rise of TradWife/Coquette/Barbie aesthetic or even the Cottage Core/Homestead aesthetics. Or if we want to go further, the return of authoritarian governments. People are scared and there are definitely signs social regression. People want to be reassured and told what to do. Young people are romanticizing the past when things were 'simpler'. I'm a young millennial (93) but I remember the late 90s/00s when there was still excitement about the future and that was reflected in futuristic fashion and in movies like Zenon and Smart House. I think we're the last recent generation of teens that were actually optimistic about the future. 💀
Loved every second of this. I love watching videos on fashion/dress history, especially while I'm sewing, it's like it's own weird version of ASMR. Please make more long vids! 💜
Seconding that^^ - was literally sewing a pair of leggings myself as I listened (and got a bit less ignorant in the process) to this great "lecture". Hopefully she can make more videos similar to this one.
In Britain I think one of the biggest changes was the rise of Methodism- a lot of the upper middle classes and aristocracy, especially women, became Methodists in the late 1820s onwards and it led to a radical break with the perceiced amorailty/immorality of the Regency
Loved the video 💖 literally obsessed with your analysis. I was familiar with both fashion eras and read most books mentioned but literally never made the connection why the fashion had changed to be more conservative. Actually, for years I thought Regency fashion was the more recent of the two. I only learned a few years ago when I went to Victoria and Albert museum and they had a fashion timeline there but even then they didn't really explain and just said that technology advancement made it easier to get the Victorian shape. Your analysis is so much better than the guide we booked lol. Please do more of these!!! 💖
I came upon your channel just a few days ago & so glad I did! I couldn’t get enough….I immediately subscribed. I can’t get over how seamlessly you depict 60’s & 70’s (and all) vintage fashion. Your style and portrayal of the “characters” within your shorts are simply perfection … you have certainly found your calling! And now we have been blessed with your first full length video…congrats! Wishing you much success as you continue moving forward with one of the best channels I have ever watched ❤️
I have been lementing, in my deep dive into the fashion of the era in comparison to todays modern interpretations in historical costuming, how everyone seems so scared of their breasts when they were the body part most celebrated during the Regency. Ive thought it might be Evangelism that most of the fanbase is part of because the French and Russian costumers dont seem to have this problem, and your theory fits in with my line of thinking! Thank you for bringing this up!
All this condemnation must have been bizarre for Regency women as they got older and fashions changed. I wonder if this is how ex-flappers felt when seeing their daughters and granddaughters grow up in the fifties.
Flapper era was pretty brief as was regency (although a bit longer). The earlier gens were still there to influence both eras so they would always have heard of criticism
i love this video so much! i had no idea about this phenomenon before, and I also had no idea there was scholarship about the anachronistic dress in Vanity Fair. exciting stuff!
sssooo we are pretty much living in the Victorian era with the return of the ''trad wife'' anxieties over new tech, social rigidity, and sicknesses? got it!! T_T
Love your knowledge in these matters! I think it’s important to remember that colleges and universities were about learning and not just using a degree to get a job. Thank you for educating us!
i really enjoyed watching this and was surprised when you said it was your first long-form video! looking forward to more of your videos in the future!!
This was so funny and really well written! a future topic could be a similar look into edwardian fashion and the transition into 1920s flapper style, i feel like there was an equivalent shift in societal values around that time, it could make another interesting video? 🩵
Thank you kindly! Oh I’d love to explore that - part of my dissertation discussed the origin of Art Deco and the transition into 1920s fashion 🥰 thanks for the suggestion
*WISHING YOU LIUCK WITH THE LONG FORM VIDEOS* this seemed really well researched and presented, not a subject that fascinates me but I subscribed as I am sure you will cover subjects that DO fascinate me...!!!
I'm about 11 mins in s and so far I've learned that the Regency Era was the "flower children hippies" and "micromini skirts and plastic dresses" generation, while the Victorians spanned from 80s powersuits to post millenial tradwives and alpha male podcasters. Intriguing.
really interesting topic and examples! i subscribed 😊 if i could suggest one technical thing, it would be great to change your mic settings or something to reduce the echo from recording in such an open space. i don't know if other people have this problem but it makes it more difficult for me at least to focus/properly take in the information when the audio is less clear. it wasn't unlistenable by any means but it would make it easier to absorb the content of the video 😊
Thank you very much - happy to have you here! Oh yes, this was just a temporary filming location and as aforementioned, I had some mic issues and quite the learning curve 😅 Thankfully, should be resolved by next video!
PLESEPLEASELPEASEEEEE DO THAT VIDEO DEBUNKING MYTHS !!! btw i loved this video so much, i'm reallyreallyreallyyyy looking forward to seeing more videos like this!
I thought I knew Jane Eyre but missed that it may have been set during the regency. That time period would make sense with Rochester as a Byronic figure...cool.
Women going outside and touching grass for the first time in nearly a century in 1901: "Oh, it's everything I thought it would be, and more! NO, I WON'T GO BACK INTO THE PARLOR, AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!"
The Jane Eyre dating debate is quite interesting and what I have seen debated prior. I am not entirely convinced if Regency is the real setting however, like you said the descriptions of the past don’t match. People can also own old paintings they can refer to their previous names and read and receive book much later, maybe Bronte was more saying something about the book itself. If the setting is more 1830s or early 1840s the fashions were quite ridiculous, colorful and made of luxorious fabrics. Which more matches to me what the ladies critiqued are wearing.
Congrats on your first full length video! I don't think I've ever been this early to a youtuber I'm gonna love, this is very exciting for me. I don't know if this is quite in your wheelhouse or interests you, but I'm fascinated by the history of childbirth, breastfeeding, and menstruation management and how that all related to clothing. I know we've all heard that aristocratic women never breastfed, but surely SOMEONE did, right? In what eras could stays just be not laced as tightly for pregnancy/unlaced for breastfeeding and who, if anyone, had specific maternity wear? What was even going on with periods??
What a lovely compliment! Truly made me smile, because I’ve had that exact feeling before and I can’t believe someone has said so about me 🥹 thank you. And absolutely would love to do a video on that topic!
Happy to watch anything you've already got in the queue, but if you're looking for brainstorming ideas, I would love a discussion of the forces at work in retro fashion. I was very interested in your comments on the return to Regency styles for young girls after the Victorians vilified them for adult women in previous decades. I'm thinking of the revival of Art Nouveau and Medieval references in the 1960's and the Neo-Victorian elements of the 1980s. What drives aesthetics to return and why do we take some elements (00's ultra low rise) and leave others behind (00's being orange)?
Thank you so much! I definitely plan to visit those topics on here. My research interests mostly lie within 20th century revivalist styles and their inspirations. I actually wrote my dissertation on the Art Deco revival of the 1960s and 1970s ☺️ I also collect and wear vintage fashion, and 60s medieval revival is one of my all time favs! The revisitation of Art Nouveau and the rise of neomedievalism in fashion and music alongside the counterculture movement especially fascinate me. So definitely some revival fashion content on the horizon.
You said the adaptations of Jane Eyre tend to go for the Victorian publication date for costuming inspiration. But hearing you talk so much about Vanity Fair made me wonder what you make of the costumes in the 2004 film - did they follow Regency or Victorian style or neither?
The transparent black corset over the long sleeve pirate shirt is such a good look that I know it’s going to be both cringeworthy and then be admired as iconic in future generations
Omg I'm usually one to find past fashion cute because I always judge it in the historical context it belongs to. Like for example, I KNOW that tribal print black and white dress was SERVING in 2012 because I had the same one. 🤣 And those patterned wedge shoes? So cute in 2013! Comfortable, would look cute with skinny jeans but adds a POP to the outfit. I know you got compliments back then!!! 😂 So that's usually my vibe when seeing outfits from the past but recently ny mom went to my old high school and sent me a photo of me in my classes grad portrait which they hang atound the school. Omg my 2011 emo-inspired side bangs and under eye black liner made me want to scratch my eyes out and die. 😂 Because I was literally like I know how these new kids see me 🙈 they're judging my ugly ass hair just like I meanly judged every graduate's from the 80s. 😭
I love mid 18th century fashion and the more dour, quirky "Victorian" era, it's fashion and literature/art but I do dislike how as time goes on we lambaste and roast was used to be. It's why I struggle with being a hater because what I might dislike someone might cherish. I love learning about the past and how often it reflects the present.
Very well researched Alicia, this must have taken you ages. I only watched this because your shorts (films) make me laugh and you seem fixated on the 60s and 70s. I'm not interested in fashion but found this an interesting record of the attitudes of the time and not forgetting of course that women are still repressed in many parts of the world today. It would be interesting for you to explore the fashions of the 60s and 70s along with the great music of the time. If I have one minor criticism, it's that you talk rather fast for an old geezer like me so I set the playback speed to 0.75 which was perfect. Thanks.
Thanks for watching and commenting! 60s and 70s are my personal favorite to emulate, but my fashion history studies were varied (although I have my favorite eras and biases, of course). Definitely more to come - inclusive of 60s and 70s and music 😊 And that’s funny - some people around my age have complained that I speak too slowly haha go figure. Thanks again.
There must have been a couple people at least who dampened their skirts - but I figure it's like tight lacing. A few dumb young women (dumb mainly because they were young) did it, but now most people assume it was all women
this was such a cute vid! i’ll subscribe lol. i think you might be getting funneled all the mina lee fans haha your video was recommended to me after watching one of hers
Impressive research, thank you for this different and interesting perspective. We are always poking fun of old styles....just looking back on the 1980s is cringe-worthy for those of us who lived through it... of course all generations will have done this.
Really great video for your first long form one! ❤ The audio does have some echo/breaking when you raise your Voice and s-sounds are a bit sharp. Some things that could help without switching any equipment; filming in a smaller room, adding some more textiles/stuff around, changing The distance from The microphone, avoiding/monitoring Voice peaking 😊 Hoping to see More quality content like this from you 🤩
Thank you so much! Oh yes, this was a temporary filming location and as aforementioned I had some issues with that mic 😅 all should be resolved in the next video, thankfully! So excited to keep going 😊
I’m only a quarter of the way through so far but I had to chime in. I hadn’t ever considered the fact that the Romantic Era, with all its gothic silliness and commercialized superstition, was a backlash against the Enlightenment. As baffling as the phenomenon may be, it seems we are prone to this persistant pattern. One might say our society is immersed in a period of intellectual backslide in the wake of a protracted modern enlightenment with the current rise in pseudoscience and nationalism. Much like the ways in which intellectual advancements of the 18th century were accompanied by loosening restrictions in fashion, the restrictions restored by the Victorians were progressively loosened back up as technology advanced throughout the 20th century. It makes me curious how the current rise in culturally regressive politics will impact fashion in the decades to come.
Well, the early 1800s fashion in France, to my knowledge, was more mocked for showing skin and having short hair (Frenchwomen cut their hair short in the Titus fashion, and in a very messy haircut at that) than anything else. Also, it's quite ironic that the silhouette and fashion in France appeared more as a response to XVIIIth century sexual and feminine liberation, and that Napoleon himself, coming from Corse, implemented the values of this part of the world into his Civil Code.
Indeed, though not super ubiquitous, such hairstyles amongst elite women dressing à la grecque were an expression of agency and liberation. Of course, no woman was free from her contemporaries mocking her! Here’s a great academic journal article on the topic: Cage, E. Claire. "The Sartorial Self: Neoclassical Fashion and Gender Identity in France, 1797-1804." Eighteenth-Century Studies 42, no. 2 (2009): 193-215. doi.org/10.1353/ecs.0.0039.
10k views in the first 4 days on my first long-form video 🥲🫶🏻 Thanks to all watching and commenting. I am SO grateful and currently working on my next video (mic issues resolved and will be out of this temp filming location).
I think it's fascinating that no matter when the youth tend to love/gravitate to what their grandparents/elders wore in their youth.
I remember once hearing a saying, something along the lines of, your children will always reflect your parents more than you.
And hate what their parents wore 😂
I was talking to a lady last week, she told me she was at a conference and this other woman had a stunning blue skirt & jacket combination, she told her she looked great and asked where she bought it? Her grandfather had made it for her grandmother in 1940.
That story made me so happy for some reason.
I like wearing old style suits, and I'm sometimes seen as having a bit of a grandpa style. I've been compared to my grandfather, even though I never got to meet him.
Years ago I read a diary account of a ball given in London in the 1840s (I think it was at Holland House but may have been Buckingham Palace) and it was hilarious. Basically a young woman was complaining that all the women over 60 were dressed with their boobs and shoulders on display, had loads of rouge and powder on, and were basically roaring drunk. It was like reading the diary of a vegan gen Z at a boomer BBQ.😂
That’s so funny! Such a great analogy
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So shaming fashion of a bygone era isn't a new thing.
In 50 years, the young generation will look at the fashions of now "funny looking" " unflattering" "unattractive"
And chances are they will comment about how dirty and smelling we are.
There's an exchange in (IIRC) _Mrs. McGinty's Dead_ that notes this trend. They're looking at old photos, and an older woman is ruefully acknowledging a young woman saying how silly they look to modern eyes. In response, a young man reassures her that the young woman will feel much the same in a few decades.
Right now i question the fashion styles of today 😂 (because i prefer more vintage and historical fashion styles patially) because: why do all the shirts have to be cropped? I mean i like it but my dad complains every time i wear one (and im 24)
Why dirty and smelly??
@@stunt-girl okay fair enough lol. My mind went to how in the modern day we've never washed more and never needed to wash less so if anything I expect we'll realize it's better for skin and hair to wash every other day or twice a week
@@Lady_dromedathey did the same in the 90s when I was your age. Basically anything younger people (mostly women) wear is always criticised.
There's a passage in "Gone With the Wind" where Scarlett is reflecting on a portrait of her grandmother (or great grandmother?) and how scandalous she was, including wetting her petticoats so her dress would stick to her legs and her body shape was shown. And plus plus boobies.
Oh nice catch!
Ew... Have you walked around in wet clothes before? That sounds horrible, especially with multiple layers
It's actually in Scarlett, not GWTW
I'm working at an 1820s historic site right now, and so the transition from Regency silhouettes into Victorian is taking up my entire brain. Thank you for a marvelous dissection of a fascinating topic!
Wow, that sounds like such fun - so happy my video found its way to you!! Thanks for this comment 😊
Its crazy how short the Regency was compared to the Victorian, but the haters hated on the fashion far longer than entire duration of the era.
It's just like the super-cinched "wasp waist" was only a thing for a decade or two, and here we are over a century later being like "GEEEAHHHHHHHH"
I didn't realize it until someone else on TH-cam (I wish I remembered who!) pointed it out. Then I was like 🤯
Until then, I thought that ultra-tight-lacing was as old as corsets.
"Jane Eyre" being Regency and not Victorian is kinda blowing my mind, not gonna lie.
Some are still divided on that, but I think it makes the most sense! I was definitely mind blown when first presented with that theory too haha
i think of it as both tbh, my brain thinks its victorian but its set in the 1820’s 😭
It’s set in the Georgian (regency) period. People think it’s Victorian because the films go this route + the book was published in the Victorian era.
I love how cultural context heavy this video is!! that was my favorite part to read about when I studied art history. I literally bookmarked the sources so I can devour them later.
Ah thanks!! Art history nerds always find each other haha
I was listening and when i heard "Jane Eyre is set in the Victorian period" I was all NO IT WAS NOT BLANCHE ET AL HAD TURBANS ETC and i was so relieved to hear you refute it!!!
“Blanche et al” LMAOOO
I can never get enough of fashion history. So glad I found you!
This makes me so happy!!
so shocked you're new to these sorts of videos, definitely earned a new subscriber!!
Oh thank you 🥹 I really appreciate it!
This is fascinating… I’ve read so many “Regency Romances” in which the protagonists have values and perspectives imported from the time in which they were written (like, 90s flavoured feminist astride-riding cheroot-smoking liberated-but chaste-young women). I never realized that Charlotte Brontë did it first!
Such a good observation! Perhaps the Regency woman has sometimes been used as a blank canvas to project upon
@@aliciavquinn I wasn't as into the western frontier, pirate or medieval costume romances, but I expect the authors projected modern sensibilities in the same way... or maybe there IS something about the Regency woman. Sitting in a parlour plying the only trades allowed--attracting a husband and commenting on one's peers--it's a particularly blank canvas...? 🤔
Love the editing it's silly/funny without being over the top or distracting.
Thanks for saying so! I’m still figuring out my style and editing in general, so that’s good to hear ☺️
Congrats on your first long video! I enjoyed every bit of it. It's very interesting how a generation rejects the previous one in different ways. For future topic suggestions, as a music scholar, I'm interested in how you would approach the relation of fashion with opera, burlesque, and theater, from how people dressed for going to the opera to how costumes influenced fashion. Thanks for the great content!
Thank you so much!!! What a great suggestion - I’ll definitely give this some thought 😊 would be fun to research
What a fascinating topic that I had never really considered before. I’m ashamed to admit, I’ve never read any of the Brontë’s while I’ve devoured Jane Austen. I’m making a resolution to read Jane Eyre this year. I’ve watched several biographies of the Brontë sisters last year, and I’m really interested in finally reading their body of works. I’ll go into it with the fashion history knowledge from this video. While I adore Jane Austen, Regency fashion isn’t my favorite silhouette. Bustle era and late Victorian fashion and 18th century are my favorite eras. It’s always a delight to discover that people share certain ways of thinking across time and space. To learn about the shade Victorians threw on the Regency Era, cracks me up. As far as away as those time periods can feel, people are people, aren’t they. I’m really enjoying your videos so far. Very educational and thought provoking. Great start!
I've always wondered, why would women be willing to give up the comfort and ease of motion of Regency clothing for the up to 40 pounds of underwear worn by upper-class Victorian women just before the advent of the cage crinoline. The only explanation I've ever come up with is, "Conspicuous consumption." It's interesting to learn that the next generation actually found Regency clothing indecent. Aesthetically, the Regency era isn't my favorite, but I cannot deny how practical the clothing was. The most practical Western women's clothing since the supportive kirtle, in my opinion.
Conspicuous consumption absolutely played a role, as well! I think a lot of Victorian fashion is beautiful, but yeah, I’d rather take Regency fashion any day.
Went to go binge the rest of your videos after loving this one and literally cried when i saw this was your only one 😢😢😢 pls pls pls post again as soon as you can!! Youre amazing!! ❤
Oh thank you so much!! Working on the next one now and planning many, many more 🥰
You’re sooooo pretty my gosh 🤪 your beauty triangle is literally diamond cut to perfection.
You remind me of my pre-teen niece personality and all.
Thank you for the fashion history video essay! Definitely excited for more. I like how your comparing and contrasting involved like, the social worries and values of their respective timessss
Also now I can't help but make the connection with the rise of AI and climate change with the rise of TradWife/Coquette/Barbie aesthetic or even the Cottage Core/Homestead aesthetics. Or if we want to go further, the return of authoritarian governments. People are scared and there are definitely signs social regression. People want to be reassured and told what to do. Young people are romanticizing the past when things were 'simpler'. I'm a young millennial (93) but I remember the late 90s/00s when there was still excitement about the future and that was reflected in futuristic fashion and in movies like Zenon and Smart House. I think we're the last recent generation of teens that were actually optimistic about the future. 💀
Absolutely
Yup, and it’s kind of scary to see a younger generation in some ways becoming more conservative than past ones.
That’s true I’m an Xlenial We were very optimist back then
@@pisceanbeauty2503that because the have to deal with things we didn’t have to
Loved every second of this. I love watching videos on fashion/dress history, especially while I'm sewing, it's like it's own weird version of ASMR. Please make more long vids! 💜
Made me smile - I wish I could sew! Thank you and definitely more to come 🥰
Seconding that^^ - was literally sewing a pair of leggings myself as I listened (and got a bit less ignorant in the process) to this great "lecture". Hopefully she can make more videos similar to this one.
Keep going!! The first step in the roughest but the most important!!!
Thank you! It was a big learning curve, but I’m having fun with it now 😊
In Britain I think one of the biggest changes was the rise of Methodism- a lot of the upper middle classes and aristocracy, especially women, became Methodists in the late 1820s onwards and it led to a radical break with the perceiced amorailty/immorality of the Regency
Your voice is so pretty 💕 I can’t wait to watch this I love history
Oh thank you so much!
Super excited for the long form content! Looking as gorgeous as always ✨
So kind of you!!
Loved the video 💖 literally obsessed with your analysis. I was familiar with both fashion eras and read most books mentioned but literally never made the connection why the fashion had changed to be more conservative. Actually, for years I thought Regency fashion was the more recent of the two. I only learned a few years ago when I went to Victoria and Albert museum and they had a fashion timeline there but even then they didn't really explain and just said that technology advancement made it easier to get the Victorian shape. Your analysis is so much better than the guide we booked lol. Please do more of these!!! 💖
I came upon your channel just a few days ago & so glad I did! I couldn’t get enough….I immediately subscribed. I can’t get over how seamlessly you depict 60’s & 70’s (and all) vintage fashion. Your style and portrayal of the “characters” within your shorts are simply perfection … you have certainly found your calling! And now we have been blessed with your first full length video…congrats! Wishing you much success as you continue moving forward with one of the best channels I have ever watched ❤️
Thank you so much for this lovely comment! I read it several times over - can’t tell you how much that means and so glad you’re here.
im in 8th grade and i take fashion class, you talk like how our teacher talks, ima tell her to show this video! you are amazing
Awee this is so sweet!!
I have been lementing, in my deep dive into the fashion of the era in comparison to todays modern interpretations in historical costuming, how everyone seems so scared of their breasts when they were the body part most celebrated during the Regency. Ive thought it might be Evangelism that most of the fanbase is part of because the French and Russian costumers dont seem to have this problem, and your theory fits in with my line of thinking! Thank you for bringing this up!
All this condemnation must have been bizarre for Regency women as they got older and fashions changed. I wonder if this is how ex-flappers felt when seeing their daughters and granddaughters grow up in the fifties.
Flapper era was pretty brief as was regency (although a bit longer). The earlier gens were still there to influence both eras so they would always have heard of criticism
i love this video so much! i had no idea about this phenomenon before, and I also had no idea there was scholarship about the anachronistic dress in Vanity Fair. exciting stuff!
Ahhh thank you so much!!
sssooo we are pretty much living in the Victorian era with the return of the ''trad wife'' anxieties over new tech, social rigidity, and sicknesses? got it!! T_T
This was so interesting to put on in the background while embroidering! I love listening to you talk!
Such a lovely comment thank you!
Love your knowledge in these matters! I think it’s important to remember that colleges and universities were about learning and not just using a degree to get a job. Thank you for educating us!
Such a great video !! very excited for another historical fashion channel in the new year, can't wait for your next one 🫶🫶
Oh thank you so much! 🥹🫶🏻 I’m so excited to keep going
ALICIA! I was SOOOO EXCITED TO SEE THIS on my YT page! GO OFFFFFFF
AHHH GABI!! This just made me so happy 😭♥️
This was way more informational than I expected, in the best possible way 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
So happy to see you here 🥰
I loved this video down to the painting showing the coral beaded necklace. *chef's kiss*
love how much nuance you give to every point
Such a compliment thank you
Very excited for another perspective in the fashion history & costube realm! This was a great video. Really amazed by the Regency Jane Eyre theory.
So eloquently spoken!
Tu parles français?
merci bien! oui, l'ai étudié pendant environ 11 ans...je dois vraiment le pratiquer maintenant. mais j'adore le français!!
This is amazing! I am liking, sharing, AND ringing that bell!
Aweee bestie!!! 🥹🫶🏻
Can’t believe this is your first video! Girl, you snapped 😂👏
Thank you so much! 😭🫶🏻
i really enjoyed watching this and was surprised when you said it was your first long-form video! looking forward to more of your videos in the future!!
Thanks so much 🥹 I’m so excited to keep going!
This was so funny and really well written! a future topic could be a similar look into edwardian fashion and the transition into 1920s flapper style, i feel like there was an equivalent shift in societal values around that time, it could make another interesting video? 🩵
Thank you kindly! Oh I’d love to explore that - part of my dissertation discussed the origin of Art Deco and the transition into 1920s fashion 🥰 thanks for the suggestion
*WISHING YOU LIUCK WITH THE LONG FORM VIDEOS* this seemed really well researched and presented, not a subject that fascinates me but I subscribed as I am sure you will cover subjects that DO fascinate me...!!!
Thank you so much! 🥹🫶🏻
@@aliciavquinn The very best of luck for 2024..!!!
I love history but admittedly don’t know a lot about fashion history so this video was very interesting. Looking forward to more videos
Thanks so much!!
Thank you! That was so interesting I love content like this.
I appreciate you!!
Hi, great video. I love the regency period. My area of historical study is 19th British period.
So awesome! Love this content
Omg thank you, Pilar Vellante!
I'm about 11 mins in s and so far I've learned that the Regency Era was the "flower children hippies" and "micromini skirts and plastic dresses" generation, while the Victorians spanned from 80s powersuits to post millenial tradwives and alpha male podcasters. Intriguing.
Excited to be here! Can't wait for your next video :)
Thank you, Hannah ☺️
really interesting topic and examples! i subscribed 😊 if i could suggest one technical thing, it would be great to change your mic settings or something to reduce the echo from recording in such an open space. i don't know if other people have this problem but it makes it more difficult for me at least to focus/properly take in the information when the audio is less clear. it wasn't unlistenable by any means but it would make it easier to absorb the content of the video 😊
Thank you very much - happy to have you here! Oh yes, this was just a temporary filming location and as aforementioned, I had some mic issues and quite the learning curve 😅 Thankfully, should be resolved by next video!
@@aliciavquinn completely understandable! good luck with your next videos 😄
I love the video, especially your analysis of Jane Eyre! Fascinating topic, I look forward to seeing more of your videos!
Thank you very much ☺️
PLESEPLEASELPEASEEEEE DO THAT VIDEO DEBUNKING MYTHS !!!
btw i loved this video so much, i'm reallyreallyreallyyyy looking forward to seeing more videos like this!
I love that you posted a full length video! This was very interesting and I can't wait for the next one ❤
Thanks so much for watching!! I’m excited to start my next one haha
would love to see the debunking myths video you mentioned. loved this!
I thought I knew Jane Eyre but missed that it may have been set during the regency. That time period would make sense with Rochester as a Byronic figure...cool.
I didn’t even think of that - totally!
i loved this i hope you make more full length videos ❤️
Women going outside and touching grass for the first time in nearly a century in 1901: "Oh, it's everything I thought it would be, and more! NO, I WON'T GO BACK INTO THE PARLOR, AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!"
I’m sooooo sick rn so thank you for the entertainment and education queen 😌🧡🧡🧡
Oh Amber how I adore you!!! Hope you feel better soon, queen 🥹🫶🏻
Really enjoyed this! Never thought about how we think about our past shifting in this way.
The Jane Eyre dating debate is quite interesting and what I have seen debated prior. I am not entirely convinced if Regency is the real setting however, like you said the descriptions of the past don’t match. People can also own old paintings they can refer to their previous names and read and receive book much later, maybe Bronte was more saying something about the book itself. If the setting is more 1830s or early 1840s the fashions were quite ridiculous, colorful and made of luxorious fabrics. Which more matches to me what the ladies critiqued are wearing.
You only have one fashion history video?? give us more!!
Many more en route!
Great first long video! Can’t wait to see what else you make. Definitely subscribing.
Oh thank you so much!
Fascinating video!! Loved it
Love thiiis! Thanks YT for recommending!
Congrats on your first full length video! I don't think I've ever been this early to a youtuber I'm gonna love, this is very exciting for me. I don't know if this is quite in your wheelhouse or interests you, but I'm fascinated by the history of childbirth, breastfeeding, and menstruation management and how that all related to clothing. I know we've all heard that aristocratic women never breastfed, but surely SOMEONE did, right? In what eras could stays just be not laced as tightly for pregnancy/unlaced for breastfeeding and who, if anyone, had specific maternity wear? What was even going on with periods??
What a lovely compliment! Truly made me smile, because I’ve had that exact feeling before and I can’t believe someone has said so about me 🥹 thank you. And absolutely would love to do a video on that topic!
Do the debate about what time frame the Anne of Green Gables books take place.
I’m looking into this immediately
Wait. But "Rilla of Ingleside" is WWI. I didn't know there was any debate possible?
It’s over if Anne was born in 1860s or 1880s basically
Loved this! I hope you post more 😄
Oh yes I will! Thank you!
Happy to watch anything you've already got in the queue, but if you're looking for brainstorming ideas, I would love a discussion of the forces at work in retro fashion. I was very interested in your comments on the return to Regency styles for young girls after the Victorians vilified them for adult women in previous decades. I'm thinking of the revival of Art Nouveau and Medieval references in the 1960's and the Neo-Victorian elements of the 1980s. What drives aesthetics to return and why do we take some elements (00's ultra low rise) and leave others behind (00's being orange)?
Thank you so much! I definitely plan to visit those topics on here. My research interests mostly lie within 20th century revivalist styles and their inspirations. I actually wrote my dissertation on the Art Deco revival of the 1960s and 1970s ☺️ I also collect and wear vintage fashion, and 60s medieval revival is one of my all time favs! The revisitation of Art Nouveau and the rise of neomedievalism in fashion and music alongside the counterculture movement especially fascinate me. So definitely some revival fashion content on the horizon.
I'm so excited! Subscribed and ready to see what's next!
You said the adaptations of Jane Eyre tend to go for the Victorian publication date for costuming inspiration. But hearing you talk so much about Vanity Fair made me wonder what you make of the costumes in the 2004 film - did they follow Regency or Victorian style or neither?
Vanity Fair (2004) definitely goes for Regency! It’s not entirely accurate, but it’s fun ☺️
Great work!
Thank you kindly!
The transparent black corset over the long sleeve pirate shirt is such a good look that I know it’s going to be both cringeworthy and then be admired as iconic in future generations
LMAO 😭😭 some older women have already commented how much they hate it
Amazing video ❤
girl ur so pretty i cant 😭(coming from a fellow girl not a creep 💀)
Thank you you’re so sweet 🥹
This was great! Proud of you! Glad you achieved your new years resolution in the end. 😅👏
Thanks so much!!
Ahh yes, I fondly recall how DELICIOUSLY slutty we all were in the Regency era! Got to start bringing back some of these *lewks* in 2024!
Omg I'm usually one to find past fashion cute because I always judge it in the historical context it belongs to. Like for example, I KNOW that tribal print black and white dress was SERVING in 2012 because I had the same one. 🤣 And those patterned wedge shoes? So cute in 2013! Comfortable, would look cute with skinny jeans but adds a POP to the outfit. I know you got compliments back then!!! 😂 So that's usually my vibe when seeing outfits from the past but recently ny mom went to my old high school and sent me a photo of me in my classes grad portrait which they hang atound the school. Omg my 2011 emo-inspired side bangs and under eye black liner made me want to scratch my eyes out and die. 😂 Because I was literally like I know how these new kids see me 🙈 they're judging my ugly ass hair just like I meanly judged every graduate's from the 80s. 😭
I love mid 18th century fashion and the more dour, quirky "Victorian" era, it's fashion and literature/art but I do dislike how as time goes on we lambaste and roast was used to be. It's why I struggle with being a hater because what I might dislike someone might cherish. I love learning about the past and how often it reflects the present.
Very well researched Alicia, this must have taken you ages. I only watched this because your shorts (films) make me laugh and you seem fixated on the 60s and 70s. I'm not interested in fashion but found this an interesting record of the attitudes of the time and not forgetting of course that women are still repressed in many parts of the world today. It would be interesting for you to explore the fashions of the 60s and 70s along with the great music of the time. If I have one minor criticism, it's that you talk rather fast for an old geezer like me so I set the playback speed to 0.75 which was perfect. Thanks.
Thanks for watching and commenting! 60s and 70s are my personal favorite to emulate, but my fashion history studies were varied (although I have my favorite eras and biases, of course). Definitely more to come - inclusive of 60s and 70s and music 😊 And that’s funny - some people around my age have complained that I speak too slowly haha go figure. Thanks again.
Really interesting.
So excited this exists
God damn, this was fascinating! 👏✨
Thank you kindly!!
your hair is so pretty. you look reminiscent of a porcelain doll
Oh thank you!
i have no interest in Fashion but i watched the entire video. you're so easy to listen to.
Such a compliment! Really appreciate it 😊
you have a very easy voice to listen to, i like the long content
That’s so very kind 🥹 thank you
There must have been a couple people at least who dampened their skirts - but I figure it's like tight lacing. A few dumb young women (dumb mainly because they were young) did it, but now most people assume it was all women
I think it’s fun to imagine a few women doing it on a dare or something, but yeah, there is no reliable evidence to support the claim.
You made that very interesting learnt something new today thank you
I’m so glad - thanks for watching!
No bc Jane Eyre is one of my fav books ever and I ALWAYS pictured the mid 1800s 😮😮😮😮
"This is gonna get a little bit long"
Cut to me watching a 4 hour video on a kids cartoon from the early 2000's that ive never even watched
That’s so real 😭
this was such a cute vid! i’ll subscribe lol. i think you might be getting funneled all the mina lee fans haha your video was recommended to me after watching one of hers
Oh thank you! That makes me so happy I adore Mina 🥰
Impressive research, thank you for this different and interesting perspective. We are always poking fun of old styles....just looking back on the 1980s is cringe-worthy for those of us who lived through it... of course all generations will have done this.
Thanks so much for this comment! Hahaha I’ll bet - I mostly dress 60s/70s and my parents get a kick out of me 😅
Really great video for your first long form one! ❤
The audio does have some echo/breaking when you raise your Voice and s-sounds are a bit sharp. Some things that could help without switching any equipment; filming in a smaller room, adding some more textiles/stuff around, changing The distance from The microphone, avoiding/monitoring Voice peaking 😊 Hoping to see More quality content like this from you 🤩
Thank you so much! Oh yes, this was a temporary filming location and as aforementioned I had some issues with that mic 😅 all should be resolved in the next video, thankfully! So excited to keep going 😊
Long form fashion history yes yes yes 🫶🏻
I’m only a quarter of the way through so far but I had to chime in. I hadn’t ever considered the fact that the Romantic Era, with all its gothic silliness and commercialized superstition, was a backlash against the Enlightenment. As baffling as the phenomenon may be, it seems we are prone to this persistant pattern. One might say our society is immersed in a period of intellectual backslide in the wake of a protracted modern enlightenment with the current rise in pseudoscience and nationalism. Much like the ways in which intellectual advancements of the 18th century were accompanied by loosening restrictions in fashion, the restrictions restored by the Victorians were progressively loosened back up as technology advanced throughout the 20th century. It makes me curious how the current rise in culturally regressive politics will impact fashion in the decades to come.
I think I am about to be your fan
Well, the early 1800s fashion in France, to my knowledge, was more mocked for showing skin and having short hair
(Frenchwomen cut their hair short in the Titus fashion, and in a very messy haircut at that) than anything else.
Also, it's quite ironic that the silhouette and fashion in France appeared more as a response to XVIIIth century sexual and feminine liberation, and that Napoleon himself, coming from Corse, implemented the values of this part of the world into his Civil Code.
Indeed, though not super ubiquitous, such hairstyles amongst elite women dressing à la grecque were an expression of agency and liberation. Of course, no woman was free from her contemporaries mocking her! Here’s a great academic journal article on the topic: Cage, E. Claire. "The Sartorial Self: Neoclassical Fashion and Gender Identity in France, 1797-1804." Eighteenth-Century Studies 42, no. 2 (2009): 193-215. doi.org/10.1353/ecs.0.0039.
35 minutes isn't that long compared to most of what's in my feed!
Same! Did a lot of necessary editing down, thankfully 😅