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This is Snivel; she's the result of a "make a One Piece character" forum thread. I was originally going to go for more of an out and out vampire look but I saw this one image of Peter Cushing's Van Helsing where he's making a cross out of some candleholders and decided to pivot in that direction.
She's an escaped slave by way of lucking into a devil fruit and on the way out she assaulted a celestial dragon who I've decided to call Saint Grape, draining all his blood and then flying to safety before passing out. This Grape guy unfortunately survived and called the marines on her but whichever one found her took the bold moral stance that the child-killing that would be on his hands would be bad so he pretended not to have seen her. It turns out Grape was, and remains, such a cataclysmic drinker that Snivel is still not sober over a decade after the fact, so she's turned to a life of coffee-centric piracy.
It was an interesting challenge trying to figure out how to do a bug Zoan since I couldn't find any examples; I think Oda avoids them because it's less intuitive to translate human expressions onto insect faces. What I decided to do is have the maxillary palps do that job, though of course I'm not quite slavishly honouring the anatomy of a real mosquito anyway.
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Getting ready for an evening out in Glasgow #glasgow #dayout #karaoke #corinthian #gayday #happyday #gaystagram #instagay #gaylife #happylife #gayman #gaypose #gaysmile #blueeyes #waistcoat #newstyle #gayfashion #instafashion #awesome #instahappy #hygge
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Satin silk waistcoat, embroidered with silk and chenille thread. Dated to the 1830s, the waistcoat is lined in glazed twill, and is backed in black silk with a pair of black tape ties for adjustment. (The John Bright Collection)
I have to add the other vest from here.
"mister lafayette did you see my waistcoat i love you sir please respond" - Part 1
I just recently had a little chat with @acrossthewavesoftime about some of the historical merchandise of La Fayette that circulated – especially during the time of his Triumphant Tour in America 1824/25. Since the anniversary of said Tour is right around the corner (well, relatively speaking) I thought we have a look at some of the “best sellers” of the day for everybody who wants to celebrate in style.
I have to say that this is a very, very shallow summary of all the different items that were created and sold back then. The golden rule is, if La Fayette’s face or name or anything at all related to him could be put on a certain item, it was done. No matters how absurd and out there the item was, there was a very eager market for everything even remotely La Fayette related.
Gloves
There were in fact so many ladies wearing such gloves, that La Fayette had to made it a rule not to kiss the hand of a lady wearing such a glove because otherwise he would have kissed his own image.
Lady’s glove with a portrait of Lafayette, The United States, 1825, PL.013487, held by the National Museum of American History, Behring Center (04/24/2022).
Lafayette souvenir glove, removed from Anna Cabot Lodge scrapbook, 1810-1911, Vol. 22 of Henry Cabot Lodge papers, held by the Massachusetts Historical Society (04/24/2022).
Gloves, 1824, held by the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 1921 (04/24/2022).
Waist Coats and other garments (and baby shoes)
... and as you can see by the stains, these things were worn. Some people really went around with La Fayette’s face all other their garments. I have also come across soft leather shoes for babies and/or toddlers with a print of La Fayette’s face on the tip of the shoe. I sadly have no pictures of said shoes (but I am searching for them with great dedication because they were really, really cute.)
Vest, 2013.0283.001, held by the National Museum of American History, Behring Center (04/24/2022).
Kerchief worn by Sara Seabury on August 17, 1824, 1924.25, held by the New-York historical Society (04/24/2022).
Platters and table ware
Some of these objects especially were just exceptionally ugly. Ugly and creepy.
Platter by Asa E. Smith, 1824, 1937.714, held by the New-York Historical Society (04/24/2022).
Lafayette, The Nation's Guest pitcher, 1961.303, held by the New-York historical Society (04/24/2022).
Plate: Welcome Lafayette, 1824, 1952.135, held by the New-York Historical Society (04/24/2022).
Bread tins
Sadly, I have no picture of this particular curiosity. I saw some of them a few years ago during an auction but forgot to take pictures and I could not find it again. Anyway, these were ordinary bread tins with the exaptation that the letters LAFAYETTE were indented into the bottom of the tin so that they in turn would press his name into the finished bread.
Beside that there were all sorts of prints, poems and piece of music created in his name. There were commemorative coins and medals, statures and paintings and a fair number of towns and cities renamed them Fayetteville, La Grange and what not.
On a more personal note, a friend of mine actually gifted me a shower curtain with a portrait of La Fayette she found online – the only problem: the curtain was printed on both sides. In other words, no matter what I tried, La Fayette is starring at you whilst you shower and he does not even have the decency to blush - needless to say the curtain made showering a very quick affair while it was up.
The headline is a tag that @clove-pinks used recently under another post and that absolutely made my day when I read it.
Imagine Your OTP
Person B wears a nice waistcoat...
Person A: “Aw, you look so charming in a waistcoat!”
Person A: *Then walks off and sighs to themself* “They looks dashing in that.”
Person B: *Blushes then proceeds to proudly wears more of them the next following weeks*
Bonus:
Person A and B are walking together happily whilst Person B is beaming with pride.
Friend or colleague: “Hey, haven’t you noticed Person B is wearing a lot of waistcoats most of the time now?”
Second friend or colleague: “I think it had something to do with Person A’s complement a while back.”
I think that my favourite thing anyone has ever said about me has to be when I was trying to be the voice of reason, and my mother said to the person I was giving advice to, "Listen to her! She wears waistcoats!"
Do I wear waistcoats because I'm sensible, or am I sensible because I wear waistcoats? Either way, it's clear that they're no fool's garment.
Embroidery on the 18th Century court suit is moving right along! This project started way back in February but had to be put aside because of how much schoolwork I was doing this semester. Now that school is out, I’m finally getting the chance to go back to it.
This suit is based on extant 18th Century court suits. The waistcoat is a cream duchess silk satin with cotton embroidery and metal spangles. So many spangles! I’m glad I have a fella that will let me make his clothes sparkly.
I’m hoping to finish up this week and finally begin the construction. I also need to make a new shirt for him before I can move on to the coat, so that’s in the queue, as well. Now to decide what embroidery pattern to use for the coat...
The fill pattern on one half of the waistcoat is finished! Tonight I’ll work on the other side and the remainder of the embroidery on the second pocket flap, and hopefully have all the embroidery wrapped up by tomorrow. Then it’s on to construction!
The embroidery for the 1760s waistcoat is officially finished! This one took me a while to complete, but looking back at my sewing diary I actually only spend a total of 16 days on the embroidery (though that was spread out over several months). As of now, I’ve put in around 150 hours, with more work to come.
The next thing to do is begin on construction. When it’s all finished, the waistcoat will be completely lined and have functional pockets. It will also be my first time making hand-sewn buttonholes, which is a little scary.
Now I need to figure out how to embroidery the coat that will go with this!
I've started another embroidered waistcoat! No, I haven't actually finished the other one yet, but I wanted to hone my tailoring skills a bit before I finished up the big fancy one. The photo on top is the actual extant waistcoat that I'm basing this one off of, and the bottom two pics are my in-progress embroidery. I'm aiming to have this project wrapped up in time for an event on the 16th of September.
I’ve been experimenting with a new style of sketching and decided to do a steampunk style Oc. Her name is Lupine as she is inspired by the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland. She’s apart of a series and you can find her Speedpaint on my channel on the link below and he video name is “The Clockwork Thief Speedpaint”. Hope you like her and give her lots of love.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgSrOGRQHOwrm9CRL5HWMRg/videos?disable_polymer=1