part 363 paper snowflakes

[aphanon_meme]

It's... December! I can't believe it's almost the end of another year. Time is weird. Anyway! There's been a lot of neato Hetalia news in the meantime! That game (that I can't get working but will look at videos and screencaps of so I can play vicariously)! The image of the first doll! The musical promo images!! What are you most excited for?

Enjoy part 363!

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Re: Ask a vuri

[romanon]

it might be connected with the fact that fancy male fashion, especially of the custom-made variety (as I suppose historical costumes might be, at least well-done ones) might cost a lot. Like, a shitton. There's almost no mid-way between A Thousand Different Casual Styles and fucking Prada.

I mean, those are not the kind of clothes you want to get bodily fluids over.

If you want to give it a try you might want to look into erotic cinema of the Seventies in Italy and France. There were a lot of "historical" erotic-to-porn movies being made in that period, thought I suspect about 100% of them were heterosexual and about 90% of the erotic content would be gross kissing and boobs. But the costumes were good as far as I remember from the glimpses I tried to catch on very late night tv, and the young male actors are usually cute. I think they simply used leftovers from"serious" tv-shows and movies. Since Italian and French cinema wasn't as rich as American Hollywood they had to get more mileage from costumes and sets.

Re: Ask a vuri

[vuri]

Very true. Still, you'd think there's probably enough leftover bits and bobs from like... Shakespeare productions, that somebody would recycle them for a different kind of theater...

Oh man that reminds me back in seventh grade we watched this 60s (if I'm remembering right) Romeo and Juliet movie, and there's just the one scene in which Juliet's boobs show for a second and our teacher was crouched over the remote like a cat on the hunt waiting for the exact moment to lunge on fast-forward and -

she got the right time, alright, but somehow there was a problem with the fast-forward/rewind so the film just jerkily replayed Juliet's boobs for a full minute or so while the class completely lost their shit.

Anyway, I'll check out this lead, thanks for the tip! :D

By the way, which time period's clothing do you find sexiest?

Re: Ask a vuri

[romanon]

if you mean the Zeffirelli version I remember watching that movie with mum, but not at school. It's considered a really good version IIRC - there was a time back in the Sixties and Seventies when Italian cinema was actually really innovative and cool and ground-breaking and stuff. Then...stuff happened.

Man, I really don't know if I'm even sending you on a wild goose chase but I remember a lot of historical movies with erotic or semi-erotic scenes. And there are also some "historical" movies of the period that are actually really stupid but I watch sometimes just for the setting/costume porn (e.g. the "Angélique, Marquise des Anges" series which is not erotic except the occasional heaving bosom palpitating out of its bodice but it's just...stupid historical romance novel in movie form - but it's just. So pretty. If you can stand Michèle Mercier looking like she's about to fall asleep at all times and everybody pretending really hard 1960s Robert Hossein with fake scars isn't incredible bara hotness despite all evidence to the contrary, at least. It's a guilty pleasure of mine, I know it's stupid, 'k?).

I watched A LOT of Versailles No Bara when I was a little babynon, so my mind kind of...fixed on that kind of pre-revolutionary French Royal Guard uniform - tight trousers, knee-high boots, high-collared jackets, and floofy chemises underneath. Oh, those floofy chemises. Nobody could wear a floofy chemise better than André Grandier.

Also Hungarian Hussar uniform! I remember a fanart from ages ago with Hungary wearing a Hussar uniform, augh, it's probably lost to the fog of time now. If you like stuff that probably took ages to close up but looks really pretty and shiny Hungarian and Balcanic old uniforms are the way to go.

I also really like the terribly fake, vaguely "Greek-Egyptian-exotic" dresses artists came up with to represent Sybils, magicians and enchantress, especially 1800s Decadent and Pre-Raphaelite artists. Like the couple Circes by Waterhouse.

Re: Ask a vuri

[vuri]

I'm not sure which version this was, but I do remember the music was really great!

Yeah, I've watched a lot of meh movies where the costume design had better charisma than the stars. To be fair, a lot of historical dramas are just not my thing to begin with; even when well-performed I have a limited patience for courtly romance and flowery declarations of whatever. But, at least they look good! And I looked up Robert Hossein, dang... I actually think he's hotter with the scar, hur hur

Yesss high-collared jackets. And I feel like the hussars/the cavalry from just about all the european nations tended to have the best and flashiest uniforms - all that braid, and especially when the sort of half-cape thing over one shoulder - so badass!

Yes, those robes are quite beautiful - love the bit of nip showing through too. Good job Circe, even if you're going to turn them all into pigs you may as well show off first.