cinemaocd:vinceaddams:vinceaddams:I was looking through my queue and I saw this and now I’m wheezing
cinemaocd:vinceaddams:vinceaddams:I was looking through my queue and I saw this and now I’m wheezing with laughter.@cinemaocd thank you for these Good Tags that I agree with!#people who have watched period films with me know how I feel about stockings and little shoes. LET C18/C19 MEN WEAR STOCKINGS AND LITTLE SHOES. QUIT PUTTING THEM IN BOOTS ALL THE TIME YOU COWARDS. SAME GOES FOR EARLIER PERIODS. let men be fancy in their stockings. forcing characters to wear riding boots is toxic masculinity. My mom and I almost came to blows at the breakfast table over this because she claimed that it was CHEAPER to costume in boots and I was like???? WTF??? CHEAPER??? When was the last time you bought a pair of knee high leather boots? Because even the cheap ones are pricey. and she was like They are wearing Boot Tops. and I was like OK we are going to have to step outside because I’m about to throw hands. Boot tops MY ASS. The fucking Guthrie handmade all the men’s clothes for the S&S/P&P adaptations they did with amazing period correct fabric and TECHNIQUES. it was fucking ASTOUNDING. they didn’t use god damn boot tops. I was in the fifth row. no boot tops were used. let me tell you they used boots because they are perceived as MASC and attractive. and they deliberately put rakes and dandies in stockings to emphasize their unmanliness. and it is wrong. historically wrong. aaaaaaand quit being so fucking fragile that you have to put men in boots all the time.Riding boots being worn in inappropriate situations annoys me too! Much as I love that scene in Interview With The Vampire where Lestat is throwing grapes at Louis, he should NOT be wearing riding boots at the dinner table. They’re relaxing at home, at night. They should probably be wearing banyans and caps.And WHY can’t movies give men proper hairstyles? Let them have curls and powder! It looks weird when a man is all dressed up in an 18th century suit but has a modern haircut. Granted, a lot of movies get women’s 18th century hairstyles just as wrong. I hate it when they try to do 1770′s hair and just make it a big tall wad of curls… no.. it’s not supposed to look like that.Oh man, I could complain for hours about bad 18th century movie costumes. Shitty stacked up lace “jabots” are also very high on the list of unforgivable costume crimes. And so many of the coats are cut incorrectly…Oh my god this is the first time an OP of a post with 5k notes ever reblogged my tag rant. I’m so honored!Yeah, the hairstyle thing. I was in a production of Tale of Two Cities in high school and it was really just the women get to have wigs and elaborate hair and the men are just having their normal 80s hair and it was so sad. Like you are putting that dude in a purple frock coat with stockings and little shoes and a mutherfucking pimp cane at least give him the dignity of a wig and not just put a fake pony tail on bad 80s feathered hair (like Colin Firth in Valmont!) -- source link