I won't enter into a screaming fingernail fight with Jilli (I'll lose, BTW, but I'll give it a damn good try) over Depp's frock coat. She's still a little sore over the one I got off the wall at Fritzi Ritzi years and years ago that fits me but not her because I don't have her bust.
(In reality, it's a Christian school-uniform overcoat for a teenaged girl, circa 1960. The shoulders are a bit narrow, but I'm Edwardian in shape (i.e. asthmatic and scrawny), the sleeves are precisely the right length, and the hem hits me in the back of the knees. It's absolutely perfect, and Jilli almost killed me at the store.)
I'm hideously jealous, however - men's fashions tend to be so bland, while women get to wear corsets and huge hats and gorgeous dresses.
I don't do drag, so cross-dressing doesn't appeal...but I wish men had fabulous men's clothing comparable to Victoriana.
She's still a little sore over the one I got off the wall at Fritzi Ritzi years and years ago that fits me but not her because I don't have her bust.
hisses
Yes, I still sulk about that occasionally.
Victorian uniforms.
Yes, but if Alex wears Victorian uniforms, then his Evil Overlord Complex kicks in, and he starts ordering everyone to make Infernal Devices. Which is difficult when he won't let you near the sharp objects.
Well, there's 18th Century men's fashions ... silks, velvets, damasks, with cascades of lace.
I just bought beautiful purple fabric to make Roman shades for the three windows in our living room. It's not what I really wanted, but it's what I could afford; and it is still lovely. The very helpful woman at the fabric shop talked me into Roman shades rather than tabbed curtains. I think I'm going to like them much better. They may be a little more difficult to make, but I think worth it in the end.
(OTOH, the family testifying against him seems really sleazy and dysfunctional. But being sleazy does not prove they were not abused, just as having subscriptions doesn't make Jackson guilty.)
Well, sure. But I figure any family that was letting their kid stay overnight at Jackson's place was probably a dysfunctional family to start with, right? Because anyone normal probably wouldn't let their kids do that.
If a man in a top hat and wine velvet frock coat goes by, would you please send him my way?
Does a drag king count, Jilli?
The materials are nice, but it's basically either morning dress, or something like a tux. Rather...bland.
I want flamboyant, but masculine. Not foppy (I could never, ever hope to compete with Alexia's husband, the Foppiest Fop in all Fopdom - and, I'm a short, fuzzy fag. I don't do fop well. I do good impressions of Winston Churchill, or just-awakened, and therefore-cranky, bears.).
And I like to say things like, "Stop making reasonable suggestions to solve my problems! They're MY problems and I LOVE THEM DEARLY. *snuggles complaints*"
Does a drag king count, Jilli?
Eeeeeee! Oh, how adorable!
