[ SECRET POST #2191 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2191 ⌋

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Comments

[pantswarrior]

Oh, me too. Actually I noticed after a few ren faires that period clothing in general is more flattering to a wider variety of body types than modern clothing, too.

Or maybe I have a fetish, I dunno. One of the two.

[(Anonymous)]

You're not wrong. Period clothing relied on underclothing (corsets/stays, padding, bum rolls, farthingales, bustles, etc., for shaping, and for the most part shaped the body rather than allowing the body to dictate the shape of clothes. In times and places where people wore more naturally form fitting or just less clothing in general--see French women's formal wear right after the first revolution--people had more of a problem looking good, which is one of the reasons that style didn't last long. Now that it takes more effort for most people to be slim and muscular than it does for them to be pudgy, fashion's focus is on showcasing the few, the proud, the slender, rather than letting the world know that you can afford to get fat and then wear clothes that make a hard day's work next to impossible. So back when it took effort to be fat, people's clothes were cut and shaped to emphasize and make the most of some extra padding. (See the peascod belly.) Now that it takes effort to be skinny, most clothes are designed to look good on skinny people. But the average runway model doesn't have the figure to look good in most period clothing. We might think they do, but that's because skinny is our ideal.