Artists who know how to draw armors or very detailed clothing are powerful
I LOVE it when paintings have this level of detail, it makes things so much better for sewing references. You can see the embroidered foil covered buttons on the first picture, and the metal purl & spangles, and even the little honeycomb net in between the motifs of his lace shirt ruffles! The dress in the last picture is made of a beautiful shot silk taffeta, woven with light brown threads one way and green ones the other (similar fabric available here) and he even painted the little zig zags on the pinked scalloped edges! A lot of the time even photos of extant garments don’t have that much detail in them.
every time I reblog this my sister sends me a message to the effect of “thank u for reposting that cat video on your tumblr i have seen it so many times but it delights me every time because their paws are so gentle and graceful”
In New Zealand, there is a man legally known as ‘The Wizard’ who is an educator, comedian, magician and politician. Some of his political ideas include:
Abolishing old-fashioned gender roles
Travelling to find the “center of the universe”
Replacing God and the Church with Wizardry and the World Wide Web
“Wizard, The”
This is The Wizard, reblog in 35 seconds to reveal the secrets of the center of the universe and abolish old fashioned gender roles.
The Wizard of New Zealand is not just legally named “The Wizard” so he can appear on his driver’s licence that way. He is actually, literally, officially, the Wizard of New Zealand and was appointed to that role by Prime Minister Mike Moore in 1990.
I imagine singing A-Ha’s “Take on Me!” is banned at the insistence of the staff, who are having enough of an existential crisis already, thank you very much.
