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mimicofmodes

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Collections manager at the Fenimore Art Museum and The Farmers' Museum, fashion historian, writer.

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mimicofmodes, to bookstodon
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My review of Hilary Davidson's new book, Jane Austen's Wardrobe, is live on History Today! I loved it, everyone should ask for it for Christmas.

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/jane-austens-wardrobe-hilary-davidson-review

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CynAq, to actuallyautistic
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Wait wait… wait. Fuck! Wait…

Someone tell me Spock and Data aren’t attempts to be inclusive of autistic people in the arguably the most progressive franchise of its time, please.

They are, aren’t they?


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mimicofmodes,
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@CynAq @actuallyautistic I really doubt it - the public understanding of autism was nonexistent in the 1960s and quite different in the 1980s. I strongly suspect any attempt to have been inclusive of autism in either TOS or TNG would have involved a character with significantly greater difficulties in communication.

I think we often connect to characters that reflect us even though they were written just to be stubborn, emotionless, "difficult", annoyingly literal, etc.

AutisticAdam, to actuallyautistic
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Communication:

The WORST thing about this is that autistic people can be bad at communicating, sometimes for the same reasons as everyone else and sometimes for our own reasons. We simply don't deserve to be blamed for every misunderstanding or expected to fill 100% of the gap by ourselves.

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mimicofmodes,
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@AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic Very elegantly put.

mimicofmodes, to histodons
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I understand why conferences are moving back to being all in-person, but it's really too bad. I can't afford to travel for them and was enjoying being able to do NEMA, ARCS, ALHFAM, etc. from my desk. 😢@histodons

mimicofmodes, to royalhistory
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Henry VIII’s Book of Psalms Reflects His Quest for Legitimacy—and His Fear of Death

“It’s really the man behind the monarch. It’s such a small and intimate item,” Clarke tells Smithsonian. “It’s Henry VIII behind closed doors: It’s him sitting in his bedchamber studying the words of God, as we see him doing in the first illustration.” @royalhistory

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/henry-viiis-book-psalms-reflects-his-quest-for-legitimacy-and-his-fear-of-death-180982801/

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in - in 1580, Katherine Brandon died aged 61. The daughter of Maria de Salinas, one of Katherine of Aragon's Spanish ladies-in-waiting, the younger namesake of the queen was a powerful woman in her own right. Baroness Willoughby by birthright, Katherine was a religious reformer who helped publish Katherine Parr's prayer book and built churches for immigrants fleeing persecution. She also possibly helped author parts of Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
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@court @histodons Oh! Either I didn't know or I'd forgotten that Katherine Willoughby was Maria de Salinas's daughter.

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‘I can’t stress how much sells’: teen literary influencers swaying publishers

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/06/i-cant-stress-how-much-booktok-sells-teen-literary-influencers-swaying-publishers

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@ExcessivelyDiverting "Founder Kevin Duffy thinks that a new publisher entering the market is a positive step, but sounds a note of caution. “My concern is that a bigger slice of the publishing pie will go to celebrities who already have huge social media profiles, and further reduce the opportunities of talented but under-represented writers to see their work published.”"

Yeah, that was my first thought.

mimicofmodes, to random
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Hybrid in-person and online talk!

Remembering Mary I: Creating a Queen’s Legacy

Join Dr Johanna Strong for a dive into England’s historical monarchy, looking at how Mary I’s legacy was created. Often publicly undeservedly overlooked, this talk will highlight how Mary’s influence on England continued even after her death. Saturday 16 September: 2-3:30pm BST

https://www.winchesterheritageopendays.org/in-person-events/2023/9/16/remembering-mary-i-creating-a-queens-legacy

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@Rhube @ExcessivelyDiverting @bookstodon On Tumblr (which skews younger than Mastodon), the 2005 version is generally accepted as THE adaptation. I will come across people quoting it in discussions of Austen as though all the dialogue is from the book, even, bless them.

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On #NationalUnderwearDay I want to talk about the ancestor of the bra: the strophion!

In #GreekRomanArt the goddess #Aphrodite can sometimes be seen putting it on or taking it off but mortal women are depicted wearing it too.

It is uncertain what the Greek strophion looked like but the Roman adaptation, the strophium, was a breast band, a strip of cloth wrapped around the upper torso.

It was a normal but optional piece of feminine clothing.

@antiquidons @histodons #herstory #ancientRome

Roman erotic fresco from Pompeii depicting a couple seemingly about to have intercourse with her riding on top of him. She is wearing a strophium around her breasts and an arm band and anklet while he is fully nude, lying on his back in anticipation.

mimicofmodes,
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@VVitchy @AimeeMaroux @Sine @antiquidons @histodons Well, the other issue is that this information simply isn't out there - not Google's fault! A lot of nitty-gritty construction information that comes from trial and error is only produced by reenactors (because it's typically not relevant to academic practice wrt dress history) and so you are very dependent on people maintaining their blogs in order to find info like this.

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@VVitchy @AimeeMaroux @Sine @antiquidons @histodons When I searched "how to tie a strophium" I found several reenactor links that might be of interest to you:

http://www.morethancod.net/as-50-challenge-persona/2014/4/17/5-supporting-the-girls-a-strophium - has a few links in it
https://wh1350.at/en/clothing/the-strophium/
https://redsbragbook.livejournal.com/5815.html
https://x-legio.com/en/wiki/strophium
https://www.reddit.com/r/ancientrome/comments/wzgf4n/replication_of_a_roman_strophium_ormamillare/ - the Reddit post, which says that the original post the photo is from is lost to time. You can find that photo on a LOT of other sites so I don't think image search will help either.

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@gunchleoc @VVitchy @AimeeMaroux @Sine @antiquidons @histodons Yes, although you run into the same issue: that this is a very niche topic and the online historical fashion community has essentially lost the tradition of low-tech blogs full of experimental archaeology and detailed explanations for people on the same wavelength. It's been very sad to watch its erosion alongside the rise of CosTube. I'm getting the same results when I search on Metager.

mimicofmodes,
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@AimeeMaroux @gunchleoc @VVitchy @Sine It's really sad. I understand why people shifted from blogs to FB Groups and I understand the incentives of CosTube, but the community no longer exists. And there was so much good work coming out of it! I got into higher-level fashion history through websites like http://extremecostuming.com/

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