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It’s the Mucklewaiiiiiiins ✨✨✨

What follows is my ramblings about how I designed them (I’m up to chapter 28 for context of how much info I have at this stage):

So these two presented such a fun and interesting design challenge. Given Effie was born in 1893 and they sound 30s-ish (give or take a few years) I decided to use 1920-30 time period to ground their attire. I consider them to be a bit more rural than straight up city folk and their clothes reflect that. Effie and Zebulon are what I would call progressive for their time so when they’re kicking it at home I imagine Effie wears Zebs shirt and belt to keep her clothes out of her way while fiddling with radio equipment and to attach her exterior pockets and nicknacks to. I also went back and forth on Effie’s hair forever. Technically hairstyles of time are very much big and up or tight and back/ styled to look short but it was just very very hard for me to see Effie in that restricted way. She’s such an interesting mix of practical and progressive that i gave myself yet a free pass and say around home she could do a half up half down. Zebulon on the other hand is much closer to the regular though attractive fashion of the time.

Can’t wait to do the radio version of these two now ✨