Sipping Lemonade and Talking About My Favorite Fashion History Periods

I have absolutely no idea where I am right now and I can't see because the Sun is yeah I nevermind oh oh oh some shadow that's a miracle so my room is so messy at the moment that there is absolutely no possibility of finding a single spot where I could shoot a video so I was like I'm gonna go outside is a brilliant idea since it's 32 degrees and everyone is out and every single shady spots that I've seen on my way here was already taken so I'm sitting I'm not sure if I want to show you because it's it's just like sort of really weird industrial area and but you can you can see the river or you probably can't but it's still pretty nice and I really hope someone is not going to come here and steal my camera because that would be a shame because I'm going on my holiday tomorrow anyway it's not very good so I was thinking because I don't really have that much time and every single idea I've tried why am i picking some weird stuff from the ground didn't really work out you know I actually shot a video yesterday and it basically I couldn't speak I'd like my brain froze and I was like yeah so that would be very hard to edit so I was like no well I guess we're gonna leave that for another time something's making really weird noises right there so I was thinking for something really relaxing and fitting the mood I can just talk about my favorite periods in fashion history so I'm gonna try and make it kind of chronological because just because okay don't ask me stupid questions why does it taste like warm beer I don't drink I don't know what warm beer tastes like so one of my favorite periods in fashion that I haven't really done a good research on and I don't know crap about but still kind of admire it from the distance and I'm thinking you know one day I might kind of delve into it and you know do some more research and read about it and actually find out about particular like decades or styles that are like is renas renas Renaissance at that time fashioned between the countries was like really really all over the place like you could tell where someone's from just by the type of clothes they wore so I don't like all of the Renaissance Renaissance rent ran I'll just call it ran I don't really like older clothes that they were back then but I do like English clothes from that era and it's Hallen clothes though not the mainstream ones but I really like what they were in Venice because that stuff is some like that's some really messed up stuff and I haven't done much research on either of those things I'm a little more of informed when it comes to English Renaissance just because that's kind of like an old interest of mine whereas the Venice stuff is the fresh one but I just discovered those really weird styles and dresses and hairstyles and I just find it so odd that is actually fascinating and what I really love about fashions from the era is in the English fashion that ever everything was just so strict and I I'm in love with roughs as well so that kind of makes it really easy for me to love that kind of fashion definition one though is so weird like I saw the the you know fashion plates no not really fashion plates like paintings from the area and drawings it was like wow I love this crap I really need to do more research on it preferably by going to Venice in my new costume and the English one I like kind of late 1500s I like Elizabethton fashion not so much Tudor but that's about us early as I go when it comes to something that really inspires I mean fashion history because before that there isn't really much stuff that interests me like I quite like the ancient Roman outfits with those like nicely done hair but other than that the whole medieval IRRI it's kind of like no so that's the earliest one then we have the borough which I love and again I'm not crazy about every single dog style there is but I really love Dutch baroque oh happy birthday to you and I find it really fascinating with all this how it how it was really like severe and composed and you know you had black dresses and white head pieces and white rocks and it was just like really strict and then at the same time what was fashionable in like the mainstream fashion was there was really like decorated dresses so it kind of like this contrast I don't know it's just cool and I love films set in like 17th century Netherlands so this was supposed to be like a fancy addition to this video and I I'm digging it less and less with every stick I mean it's not ya know it's bad so Baroque and also I think English barak isn't about either but it's definitely less specific in a way it's kind of more all over the place and I don't mean like later sixteen hundreds cuz that stuff is messed up like I don't know who came out with their you know weird frizzy bangs hairstyle but it's just I can't imagine a single person that looks good in this and even when they do film set in that era they usually just pretend a trend didn't exist so then we have 18th century it's not a poop the first half of a of 1700s is not my favorite I think it's cool and it looks nice but it's not something I would want to recreate or like be more interested in with one exception and that again that wonder if it looks like I'm doing drugs so basically I love like 1750s Venice Venetian outfit again because they were just so weird the typical ones that are sort of portrayed and in the paintings and stuff paintings where you have like a lot of people and there's always someone in the background dressed in those like really weird traditional clothes those were wore during the masquerade and basically it's like a black cloak that reaches your elbows I think and those white odd masks and then you have a tricorn and those were those were worn by gentlemen and ladies and I really need to do more research on them because I don't want to give you false information on that but I really love that style and it's just so creepy and cool at the same time so that's the first half of the 18th century and also another thing in the first half of the 18th century that I do love our riding habit and that actually applies to probably every single era that ever was and that ever made writing habits fashionable because I think in the 17th century that's when it sort of became a thing they came up with the idea that a writing habit since it was something masculine that you would do you know write a horse that's kind of like a masculine thing you could wear clothes inspired by man and I love when when you know women's fashion adopted men's fashion trends in writing habits it kind of was supposed to look masculine so you would wear like a really high neck shirt and you would were Robert usually and you were a jacket that was sort of inspired by menswear and I think that makes women look really powerful especially when the riding habit is huge because in you know in 74 1750 those huge pioneers were still in fashion so I think that's a really interesting combination to have something like really feminine which is those huge elegant dresses and then mix it with something super masculine which is military style jackets they were also usually really pretty embroidered like heavily embroidered that's just really cool and my favorite writing habits are from like mid 1700s onwards and it basically goes on till 1930 so then we have 70 60s which is something I quite like but it's still not very yet if you know what I mean I don't really have a particular style I like I have a piece of clothing I really like and not jackets in every single form either carico jackets or Brunswick jackets or whatever you call those Eric oh that was something that was born mostly by like middle class then it kind of made it into mainstream fashion around 1780 so that's something I like and I also really like those like mustard-yellow gowns that are fashionable in 1760s especially I think so then we have 1770s which is sort of when for me 18th century fashion becomes acceptable I'm not really into those like huge court guns or anything I like more casual outfits and especially English fashion again back in 19th century differences between countries were still quite visible for you know for England and France that's kind of true in every single year because they were constantly fighting and they were just like okay so who's gonna be fashionable now huh so for some reason I always prefer English questions that's probably because hey I'm an Anglophile and B because English fashions are a bit more simple I guess and also a lot of it is inspired by women's wear which is again something I quite like in this fashion so English fashions from the 1770s and 1780s are definitely something I like but then around 1790 it's kind of where I get like you know may the Regency fashion the Regency question for me is a really weird period because I used to love it and I used to really that was probably my favorite period in fashion history because it was so feminine because it was so delicate because because Jane Austen and you know everyone starting out with costumes is usually obsessed with Pride and Prejudice and it's usually obsessed with Jane Austen and that's how a lot of people get into costuming is because they've read the books and they're kind of like so what can I do next and some of them like me find you know Jane Austen dance group and learn to dance and go to their first ball and that's where they need the first dress and that they discover fashion history blogs and stuff like that but after a while when you get to know that you rap better and when you get to know other ears better I don't know to me started to be boring at some point like we had this annual event with my friends where you had to have like a full Regency wardrobe and I really have no clue what to do because the cut is always almost always the same like the only thing you can you can make different is you know the patterns on the on the fabric sleeves maybe the neckline but other than that after a while you know obviously there is a lot of interesting fashion place that you can recreate but the base for me it stays the same so you know I've made a lot of Regency dresses because of all the balls that I had to go to and and probably would make more Regency dresses because you don't want to dance in the same thing the whole time but yeah I don't know yeah I think reasons that you rise to the mainstream for me you know so I'm just gonna skip straight to 1840s which is an era that also kind of got me into consuming even though I don't really own that many dresses from that era probably own and only to one of those is rubbish so I don't really own any but it started because of the 2011 Jane Eyre movie that I've seen and I was obsessed with the costumes in it I think because of that film I started I think I was looking at the pictures from the film and that's how I discovered pictures you know of people wearing similar costumes but they were not from the film and I was like oh how did that happen and it turned out that people made their own costumes so because I love the costume so much it kind of gave me this push to to start sewing and stuff so my very first dress was the Regency one because I had to go to a ball but then the first one that I made completely by myself and that was kind of like my project rather than a costume I need was an eighteen forties dress what I love about them and again it's more about English questions because they were more strict because of Queen Victoria they were kind of like really really simple really modest kind of like early toned whereas the French fashions were more freely more like frivolous and the colors were more like vivid because of that I like English fashion a bit more I love this a little bit because it's kind of like really strict and it's like a typical Victorian silhouette and it just works so well with the landscape man oh yeah 1840s definitely and it's kind of hard to to have the right silhouette because you need a really tight waist and at the same time you want the skirts to be really full like this bell shaped skirt which is also kind of hard to achieve because you need the right petticoat and everything so I think that's probably why I never actually attempted a proper 1840 outfit 1850s are okay but only in some cases so I hate a lot of things about the 1850s fashion I hate the huge sleep the pagoda sleeves I hate to play dresses that make it look like you're wearing a blanket or something I hate the Frehley skirt but I do love the more straight version of this style which is it probably has to be early 1850s where women were tight sleeves and dresses are made from some kind of appetite thing because it's a bit shiny I've seen it a lot in the portraits in like daguerreotype Stargirl la caja and it just works so cool it just looks amazing on and I also prefer 1850s her style 284 answers though 1860's or sort of like a really weird era for me because that's another one of those eras I think it's as similar to a Regency your addresses where everyone's starting out once at 8 and 1860s dress because it has a crinoline underneath one of the very first costumes I made was an 1860s dress I don't really know why but everyone just seems to want a nineteen sixties dress but when you really start seeing fashion plates from the era you notice more and more things you don't like about it and those things would be again the pagoda sleeves weird raised waistline and the kirino hands are not that big I used to be fascinated with 1860s fashion but now it's really hard for me to find something I like about the era there are particular dresses especially those of like solid colors that have black decoration I don't really like eighteen seventies fashion I think it's way too frilly I think the time it becomes acceptable for me is after the natural form era which is 79 to 82 I think and when the second bustle appears like when the second bustle era appears that's when I kind of find it acceptable and that's one of those eras I really like I think it's because it's kind of like a default Victorian look for some reason what do you think Victorian you usually think late Victorian you don't usually think like 1860s but you have in mind you know bustle dresses and those like fancy hats and I think that's also thanks to steampunk and stuff like that because they mostly draw from that decade and an 1890s I guess but I really like it because it's it's really Victorian in a way like those really tight bonuses and I really like the shape it gives just like the silhouette it gives what I don't like about this era though are asymmetrical elements like asymmetrical over skirts or asymmetrical bonuses I just don't really like things when they not symmetrical and it's also kind of hard to do on your own because you have to balance it right you know when something when something is asymmetrical you kind of have to think how you're gonna do it and stuff so I don't like to think 1890s 1890s are one of my fav IRA's in fashion weirdly because I used to dislike them a lot I don't like the ball gowns I don't like really frilly dresses of the 1890s sort of like girlie dresses but I do like everything that's dark and kind of like a lot um like from 1890s I used to hate those huge sleeves because they look ridiculous in fashion plates but I've seen them I think I made a jacket from 1890s and I was like well that looks damn fine and I think it's not until you see them on an actual person that you appreciate that style kind of same goes for 1830s except I don't like 1830 especially even when I see it in you know on a person but I think it looks much better on a person than it does on a fashion plate or like on a portrait but 1890s are again very like Victorian they are also kind of ridiculous I don't know I love the weird hats with like whole birds on them that's just a weird I love the huge sleeves and I kind of like the whole overall silhouette 1,900 that's a weird fashion era for me because I used to be obsessed with it and now I kind of have narrowed down my interest to particular years weirdly though I used to be in love with the whole decade and I used to be in love particularly in the beginning of the decade was like 1900s to nineteen three and when I got more into it and I started realizing you know what kind of separates styles they had for each year and and stuff I was like I don't actually enjoy it that much so I think 1900s are acceptable for me and work best when it's like 1907 to 1909 that's kind of my favorite styles but 1903 is way too like floppy but 1907 is damn fine 100% would work 1910s I'm not a huge fan I don't know maybe that's because I've never worn stuff from that era I quite enjoy wartime fashion sort of like 1916 just because it's so ridiculous 1920s to be completely honest I mean I do enjoy them but I'm not like super obsessed I think earlier part of the of the decade works better for me than the later part 1940s it's a decade I used to hate I used to be like it's so fluffy why would you wear like those weird shoulders it's so awful and then I discovered some Instagram accounts that were dedicated to 1940s and I was like so that's when I sort of discovered that what you see on fashion plates is not only the truth and also it's not like they had as a one single style for one era it's so much more than that there are so many styles in 1940s that you can either love or hate but you should know about them and I personally find it fascinating when I discover a new era and I'm like I've only seen like half percent of what actually was in there didn't I I could do a separate video 19 for you so I'll just keep that I've just noticed it looks like I'm sitting in kind of a different if I have to talk about my favorite eras they would probably end around 1940s I used to I used to like 1950s a lot and I still think it's a great piece of fashion designing 1950s fashion is probably a peak in artistic approach to fashion but when it comes to my favorite eros I don't think I would listen to 1950s so these are my favorite eras in fashion history I hope that wasn't too boring I was enjoying it way more than this I'm gonna take a break right now because I'll be away and there's probably no way for me to upload videos while I am away so follow my Instagram I probably will be posting stuff there I'm still very much involved in my secret project that I have not told you about and I still probably am not going to so that's why the videos are so rare but you know quality not quantity that also means less money for me so that's not the best option but yeah see you in August I guess in late August or even in September oh my goodness my face is so sweaty I could fill that Cup in a second so yeah enjoy your holiday as I sure will holy days holy holy moly

Channel: Karolina Żebrowska

Views: 183,924

Keywords: fashion history, renaissance, baroque, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, fashion

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Length: 20min 0sec (1200 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 29 2018