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[rm]

The current state of fashion is annying the crap out of me. It's basically the worst of the 80s. Eveything is tight in the wrong places and loose in the wrong places and the only thing I've seen in stores that I've liked in months is this pair of hideous little ankle boots at H&M that my inner Snape just adores, god help us all.

It's not that I need new clothes. It's that I want to look at less ugly.

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[rm.livejournal.com]

I know about that filming, and I am so cranky. They only wanted women with hair well below shoulder length which is entirely not neceesary to the hairstyles of the time.

[placate-me.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure the H/MU dept have it under control for the period. They wanted men with hair 5 inches long, but it would be unlikely that a young male in NY would tie hair into a queue. Perhaps a 50 year old man, or a dock worker, but short hair and sideburns were quite fashionable by that time, especially in a port city.

BF is working on it--he is a huge Regency-phile as well. I'm not an actor, and not SAG, but would have loved to do it for the period. Doing a commercial instead though...

Same with short hair on a woman. Rare, but not anachronistic. I thought that their requests were strange as well, considering, you have an easy hair length to just add a piece to create a Regency updo. If I were running the hair dept., I would have wanted shorter hair, so I could prestyle hair peices and attach them.

Now you truly know the intense geekery that I have for period hair.

[rm.livejournal.com]

So can you be lured to our annual Regency Ball in October?

And you're right, that men's hair is totally wrong. It's like peopel watch Horatio Hornblower and decide that 1795 and 1815 were the same year. So not.

[placate-me.livejournal.com]

Trust me. I'm a crazy person when it comes to period hair. I was so frustrated working with CW reenactors on an 1880's TV projects, because they kept wanting to wear smooth, low, buns. Sigh.

I just built a wig for an Amazon book commercial. I will have to post a pic in the eljay. Super fun 1818 hair.

I'd love to do a Regency ball. It was one of the things I wanted to do when moving to NY. In Ohio, all we have are CW reenactments, and some weak RW events. :( I just don't have Regency wardrobe. Same with BF. He has tons of CW and one RW, but no Regency. Is it dress code strict?

[rm.livejournal.com]

We don't require costumes, but our core group has very elborate onesin some cases, and we even have some loaner items for people. We do request that people ress in formal clothes an that women at least wear long skirts.

http://www.elegantarts.org/assembly/