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All Black - Jungle Music [1994]

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Suzzy Williams in Sun City (aired 2003-2005)


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d-m-a-c asked:

Hello I hope you are doing well, I found a new drama titled "The Legacy" (2022) 传家 , that I would love to hear your thoughts on. The reason is that what caught my eye is that this drama ( atleast in some of the promo pictures) the qipao/cheongsam seem to have the neck binding that I read sometime frustrates you ioth other movies and shows' costumes

audreydoeskaren:

I had a look at some photos of that drama and they have some really spectacular and well made costumes that have never been attempted elsewhere. There were some weird choices here and there but overall the costuming is very thoughtful and refreshing. The story starts in the late 20s and ends in the early 40s, and the show did attempt to show the passage of time with the costumes while respecting the fashion of the actual years it was from. I especially approve of the costumes from the 20s/30s transition, they did not shy away from recreating the flapper look at all!

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This costume (hybrid cheongsam-Western dress) is amazing in that it replicated the ruffled sleeves we see on some dresses of the 20s/30s transition. The scalloped edges are also a nice period detail. And yes like you said they did the binding all the way around the neck which is accurate.

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Late 20s/early 30s dress with ruffled sleeves.

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These are two very good examples of late 20s cheongsam. The flat chested silhouette, the slightly flared sleeves, the fake two-piece effect with the long vest etc., all true to the era. The hair here is alright.

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Late 20s photograph.

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In this photo you can see some of their shoes. The women’s footwear is immaculate and absolutely period accurate, on top of being beautiful and flattering. They have that 20s pointed toe and overall mary jane shape, as well as decorations. I think the costumers might have tried to indicate age and different personalities within a historically accurate framework, which shows incredible skill; traditionally, costumers relied on time travelling to indicate whether someone was more conservative or modern etc.. Here the older woman wears a longer cheongsam in a darker color with embroidery, the younger ones wear shorter ones with abstract modernist patterns and avant-garde construction.

The first cheongsam from the left is remarkable: it’s short (knee length), has a zigzag hem with embroidered/beaded borders, a tube collar and a floral corsage, all very fashionable elements of the time.

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Late 20s/early 30s cheongsam with zigzag motif.

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This one is also well made and has good fabric and trim choices.

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This is a very well constructed early 30s cheongsam, the linear, abstract fabric and three rows of thin binding are great period choices as well. The symmetrical dajin is well executed! The collar is appropriately tall.

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Mei Lin in a 30s cheongsam with a similar collar, tall and with three rows of binding.

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The fabric choice in this one!! Spectacular!! Amazing!! Revolutionary!! I’ve always wanted to see bold geometric patterns on cheongsam the same way they were popular in the 30s, and this is serving it. They also did the binding (thin and two rows, very good) around the fictitious armhole, an actual period design mimicking the long vest trend of earlier years. The attention to detail and variety in options is legendary.

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Anna May Wong in a cheongsam with armhole binding (even the pose here is similar, great for showing my point ahaha).

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The wedding look is pretty nice, actually looks like something someone would wear to a wedding in the Republican era.

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The bolero with puffed sleeves! That was a thing in the 30s and 40s.

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Late 30s/early 40s poster, showing woman in cheongsam and puff sleeve bolero.

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Very interesting fabric choice here, presumably for an early 40s cheongsam? The low collar is great, and they actually aren’t afraid of getting rid of trimmings and binding altogether as was the case in the 40s. The hair here is actually fully waved and great but would be more appropriate for the early 30s.

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Another nice early 40s cheongsam with good fabric choice.

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Zhou Xuan in a low collar 40s cheongsam.

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Though I would say some of the makeup and hairstyling in this drama leaves much to be desired, whoever made the clothes have a much more advanced grasp on fashion history than the hair and makeup stylists. They used a lot of these tack on fingerwave extensions, which is industry standard guzhuang practice. Many characters also have loose, straight hair on many occasions, not in a “they were students and didn’t bother to curl their hair” historically accurate way but in a “this appeals to modern audiences” kind of way. The makeup is also completely modern.

I feel like the menswear and generally “Western” costumes in this are a hit or miss. The menswear looks overall too tight, and the Western clothes don’t really look like anything popular in Western fashion at the time.

I think the costumes in this drama are strongest in their tailoring and choice of fabrics.

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chinese fashion by 达子-Lwenx

“if you take medication for that, you’ll be taking medication all your life!!” yeah, and?? bud, i already put on my glasses every morning. it’s like. a condition of mine, not a side hobby i’m pursuing irresponsibly. 

and the thrilling sequel: “taking meds for that is the easy way out!” right you are my dude, i’m a huge fan of not making things harder than they have to be

“But if you take that to control your illness you’ll always need it!” Yes, that’s how chronic illness works

ugh first things first rip brittany murphy one thing she could do WAS DELIVER a line

I think the moment that convinced me the operating logic of our society is truly fucked in a way that cannot merely be reformed was after that eclipse in 2017 when the articles started coming out about how much money had been lost by productivity dropping from people stopping momentarily to watch it happen. To measure the world by the metric of the dollar to such a devotion that any cult leader would be jealous of that you would look at one of the most sublime experiences in nature which we, our ancestors, and even a not insignificant number of non-human species, have been observing in awestruck wonder for millennia, and decide that such a moment of profundity is something to be fought and preferably expunged from the human experience because it briefly impacts quarterly revenue.

It's a feeling that has been coming up repeatedly, but with increasing frequency in the last few years. That being: what is all of this for? Where are we going? Nobody who defends the status quo can seem to answer it. What's the point of an uninterrupted quarterly revenue stream if we can't even look at an eclipse every few years? What's the point of hustling and grinding 50, 60, 70 hour weeks if you never have time to have dinner with your friends, talk to your family on the phone, but on a bigger spectrum, what's the point of all of that if you still don't have any way of retiring in the future? With the way that our lives are being increasingly monetized and squeezed every second, what is there to look forward to?

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Tseng Jing Hua as Pu Yi Yong
Oh No! Here Comes Trouble 不良執念清除師
2023, dir. Lin Kuan Hui.

please stop looking for inconsistency/"hypocrisy" in conservative rhetoric and policies or wahtwever it will not help you it will never help you it will push you deeper and deeper into ignorance until you're incapable of seeing the full picture for what it really is. conservatives are not hypocrites. they mean what they say. if you spend your time mining every sentence they say for inconsistencies you will overlook what is actually being said. conservatives do not see a contradiction between protecting children and torturing or killing them or marrying them off. they want to protect children like how they want to protect their lawns.

*contemplates life whilst opening louis vuitton*

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Chengwei Dong, XinZe, Ning Jinyi, Tang Qi by Wang Lei and Jiang Kun for Harper’s Bazaar China August 2022

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Estēe Lauder Intuition Cristaux

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