A very detailed website based on photo research. Need to know about the details of your WWI military character's uniform buttons? What did the last big ladies' hats look like, right before close-fitting headgear came into style? Your fashionable 20s character has bobbed her hair, but does she have a classic Orchid Bob or an extreme Eton Crop? What ( Read more... )

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Hello! I have a main character who is not going to shave for a full year. He's a white man in his forties, living in a medieval setting, previously suffering from malnutrition but with regular access to food and water for this year, a bit scruffy but not bearded at the start. I've done some Google searches ("what is it like having a beard," " ( Read more... )

I'm trying to write a novel set in Victorian England, precisely in 1842 ( Read more... )

I'm in the planning stages of a story that takes place in an Earth analogue world with the main setting being a small nation similar to pre-colonial midwestern America. The majority of the characters are of a native tribal culture, and my protagonist is, for all intents and purposes, a transgender man. His people (an as-of-yet-unnamed tribe, ( Read more... )

In 1950s America, would a man who had moderately curly hair and didn't make any attempt to slick it down/straighten it out a bit be considered odd? Untidy? [Insert other unfavorable adjective here]? I've seen enough old photos/movies/TV shows to know that the standard look for men's hair at the time was more or less straight and held down with ( Read more... )

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Setting: Boston area, present day ( Read more... )