9/28/2023 0 Comments Our flag means death tim heideckerI’d taken it to be a cotton seersucker at first, but according to Hannah Greene’s Instagram post, it’s hammered silk. This screencap is from episode 8, but it’s the same outfit. The next scene is the last appearance of that yellow wrapper, and the first appearance of this very nice ruffled nightgown, worn with a nightcap which we also see in episode 4. Put the little heart patches on the pirate shirts. It’s delightful, it’s historical, it’s romantic, and it’d be a nice parallel to that heart appliqué on the flag in the last scene of episode 10. It wouldn’t take any extra time, you don’t need to hand sew them! You can hem the slit and sew the heart in by machine just fine, I’ve done it on my everyday shirts, you just need to hand-baste them first, and then you do a little bar tack by hand and it’s all set. Give us some cute shirt reinforcements in season 2. I want the cute little heart shaped shirt reinforcements. Even if it doesn’t show up well on screen, it should be there. Isn’t that cute? I think if you’re making a romance about 18th-century pirates, you should be required by law to have at least one such shirt reinforcement. (These examples are all late 18th century, and I don’t know how early they started appearing, but for the purposes of this show it really doesn’t matter.) Often it’s just some detached buttonhole stitch and a bar tack, but sometimes there’s a little heart-shaped piece of fabric sewn onto the inside! Late 18th-century shirt, sold by Meg Andrews but the listing appears to have been taken down.īeing the same fabric as the rest of the shirt and sewn to the inside makes them a bit difficult to see, but this shirt and this shirt also have them. ![]() The slits down the front of the shirts are hemmed and need some sort of reinforcement at the bottom to keep them from ripping. If nowhere else, then at least for the flirty stabbing scene!īut the reason I really want more historical shirt slits is because of the little reinforcement patches. I think if Ed gets to wear crop-tops with a bit of tummy showing, Stede deserves to have a shirt or two with a historically accurate plunging neckline. The ones on the ruffled shirts are also very much on the short side, and early 18th-century shirt slits go a lot further down. To be fair, they do leave it as a slit without buttons on the ruffled shirts, including the one they both wore in episode 4, but not on any of the ones without ruffles down the front. It’s a pretty long slit early in the 18th century and shorter by the end of the century, so in a show like this they could make it any length they wanted. ( Shirt buckles are an option, I suppose, but not super common, and it might be a bit odd to see one on an otherwise unbuttoned shirt.) Unknown man by Michael Dahl, 1713, National Portrait Gallery. An 18th century shirt typically fastens only at the collar with 2 or 3 buttons (though a ribbon through two buttonholes is also an option, and one I’d love to see on film) and then below the collar there’s just a hemmed slit with no closures at all. I can understand why you’d want your characters to have the option to be varying amounts of buttoned-up, but I still wish we’d seen a few more proper 18th-century shirt fronts. There’s a very anachronistic cravat covering most of it, but you can see that one of the top buttons is fastened. Nearly all of his shirts have this narrow little button placket down the front. ![]() I talked about shirts in part 1, and how most of Stede’s shirts are pretty good, but I’d like to talk a bit more specifically about the front closures here. ![]() He wears the same outfit for a late-night fencing lesson, but without the waistcoat. From what I can see, the waistcoat length looks 1760s-ish. Stede starts off the episode in a beautiful satin waistcoat and breeches, which are probably purple but may be pink, it’s hard to tell in the dark. 1600-1699, Rijksmuseum.Įpisode 6 features a theatrical performance and some rather suggestive sword fighting.Ī lot of stuff happens in this episode! There are a couple of very sweet scenes, and one where Izzy “only human in a Muppet movie” Hands gets a sandwich thrown at his head. Part 1 was about episodes 1 to 5, and this post covers 6 to 10.īut first, an important update! I have been informed that Oluwande’s lovely little diamond-pattern knitted cap is based on an extant 17th-century one. A look at the masculine costumes in Our Flag Means Death (2022-), with a little bit of plot description. Hello again! I’m going to assume you’ve already read part 1, and get straight back to where I left off last time. ![]() Frock Flicks note: This is a guest post by Vincent Briggs, a part-time alterations tailor and part-time dinosaur cartoonist who is very fond of 18th-century menswear and has been sewing for over a decade.
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