tv shows with time travel organizations/bureaus/police/agencies/whatever should have a department with instead of a tech genius eating candy, it’s a harried seamstress or fashion designer who is like
“1450 italy? does it look like I have the time to dye you wool? nO. YOU’RE GOING TO THE 1980s”
and throws shoulder pads at the hapless time agent
“I literally made three- THREE- 18th century corsets last week. You can wait until one of them gets back, or you can go sometime post-1920s, because if I have to sew one more god damn channel I will literally lose my mind.”
“Upper middle class?!?!? You told me upper class! FUCK YEAH THERE’S A DIFFERENCE!!!”
“How about kimoNO.”
“Look me in the eyes. I do not care what you want. This is the 1500s. You absolutely cannot wear trousers.”
“Another court gown?? Here’s a novel idea: go as a peasant for once in your life. Why do you do this to me? You’re fucking sadists that’s why.”
“Don’t mind me, I’ll just be up all night hand painting silk.”
“THE POLICY IS ONE MONTH’S ADVANCE NOTICE ON PRE-1900s WOMEN’S FASHION FOR A REASON, DEBRA.”
@star-anise this is what the fashion history show costume people actually do. The TV show is just a cover.
OH MY GOD I WANT IT. I WANT IT!!!!!!
“I don’t care if he’s in hospital. He bled on 200 hours of handstitching. He owes me.”
Some time periods are just … banned.
NO, you are not allowed in 9th C Japan, send one of the men. You don’t even know what season it is! You don’t know how closely related to the Emperor you need to be! I am not making you 8 dress layers in subtly different shades of green, with hand sown embroidery, that you can only wear for the one day, just to have you sent out of court in shame because its EARLY winter, not mid, and you’re hopelessly unfashionable!
And you DEFINITELY aren’t going to Elizabethan England as a courtier! That’s at least 6 different dresses a day, I don’t CARE if you have access to tampons!
QUILLWORK! You want me to do QUILLWORK! I need my deer bone needle and a whole lot of porcupine quills, right away. Also, a week to refresh myself on that group’s designs – you do know the exact year, family, and history of the Cree community you’re visiting, right? How much influence from neighbouring tribes? Also, what time next year do you want this done?
Sorry, the fur I need is from an extinct animal, go somewhen else instead.
IKAT! Hahahaha! – Get out of my workshop … {muttering} stupid kids thinking I can do magic. Yeah, I WISH I could spend a lifetime sitting at the feet of a master, dyeing each thread in specific spots, weaving a pattern from nothing. I should abandon these idiots and go do that! Ikat!
@mama-germany It you
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