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Jan 04, 2011 21:52

I have an appointment with the admissions director of FIDM next Wednesday...that's when I find out whether I get in the school or not. Eeep! :O (I'm pretty sure I'm going to get in, but there's always a chance I won't...)

Speaking of FIDM...I posted this on Facebook and totally forgot to post it here! ( My design project for admissions... )

fashion history, fidm, design work

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collectingbees January 5 2011, 06:02:32 UTC
OMG, Theresa and I have wasted a good chunk of our lives via Netflix instant. Cartoons, 80's kids movies and prehistoric beasts (must contain exact words in title) make up hours of our lives we will never get back.

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collectingbees January 5 2011, 06:03:23 UTC
Also, poor Romantic era. No one even remembers you existed... and I think there is due cause for that.

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the_raddy January 6 2011, 01:13:49 UTC
It's funny...the Romantic era was an art movement that actually spanned about 150 years or so, starting in the mid 1700s and lasting through most of the Victorian era. There's just this awkward gap between the end of the Regency era (1820) and the beginning of the Victorian era (1837), and people today remember THAT as the Romantic era because Romanticism happened to be picking up steam at the time...and because we just don't know what else to call it. LMAO

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eris405 January 7 2011, 07:53:50 UTC
good luck with your admissions appointment! and...it's funny, but my grandma actually has a turban-y hat that is sort of similar to your design, so i got a little laugh from it :)

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the_raddy January 8 2011, 04:51:25 UTC
LMAO...see, that's nothing like how I imagined the turban in my mind...I just fail at coloring and the red stripes are much more prominent than I wanted, so it turned out looking like a candy cane when that's NOT what I was intending. XD

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aquandrian January 14 2011, 07:21:11 UTC
Let's not even talk about what would happen if you got caught in the rain.

*lol* So true. And then you read about that infamous Caro Lamb who actually dampened her muslin dresses so they clung to her body. *facepalms* Trollop.

I think that's why I always prefer Regency romances to Victorian and whatever. They're so much prettier and less cumbersome and yeah, wonderfully wicked. :p Even if their shoes were totally inadequate, poor buggers.

I'm quite fascinated by these deliberate inaccuracies, though. How intriguing ...

The Liberty gown ... have you seen/read about that? In Meredith Duran's Written On Your Skin --- coincidentally one of my top three romance novels ever --- the heroine puts on a Liberty gown which is supposed to be in the Aesthetic style. And apparently it's very very scandalous in its appearance of freedom but apparently is all tied and laced cunningly ( ... )

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the_raddy January 15 2011, 00:19:27 UTC
Ooh, it's very possible that a "Liberty gown" is in reference to Liberty & Co...they were well-known for fabrics & garments used in the Art Nouveau & Aesthetic Dress movements. I'm not really sure what a Liberty gown would look like, though, since they catered to eclectic styles of dress in general. I imagine it could look like this or this, depending on when the story takes place. (Or perhaps even this, although it's a bit Pre-Raphaelitic.) I'm very curious about this book now!

Oh! I made it about halfway through season 1 of X-Files before I got busy with other things (FIDM stuff, etc.) It's so funny to me how there was a distinct change in quality after episode 13...it's like the writers suddenly went "Wait, this doesn't have to be hokey! We can actually make this impressive if we want!" Still impatiently waiting for the Smoking Man to make a reappearance after his little cameo in the pilot. WHERE ARE YOU, SMOKING MAN?!

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