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Halloween idea:
A Tang dynasty hanfu but make the scar-like makeup into realistic scars🩸
Spent two days hand sewing an accurate zhuyao only to give up trying to make it close properly and putting a zipper at the side
I got this fabric originally to make a 主腰, but the store gave me half a meter extra cause it had some imperfection, so now I have w hole meter and idk what to make out of it, help
It’s 100% silk, lightweight but quite stiff
So I’m planning on sewing a hanfu, but I don’t know which type of upper body undergarment should I chose. Could somebody with some hanfu wearing experience advise me on which one of those shirts are most comfortable to wear with large chest?
Does anyone know where can I get some pretty silk to make a Ming dynasty ma mian qun? I can only find polyester fabrics online with fitting pattern. Thank you in advance 💖💖💖
OC (he / him) in formalwear from a while back! 90% done with a mouse due to a wrist injury (his face was by hand).
OP is wearing a mamianqun (馬面裙) and using a dao (刀; one-edged blade)
I wanted to make this post since a couple of months ago. As proper summer is coming, Song and Tang style might make a come back in another couple of months.
This looks so beautiful, I want to see a comic book like this.
First Post!
I deleted my old tumblr because... man idk why it was covid-times and the prefrontal cortex was not in the room with us!! Anyways, I was reminded by my lovely friend @repecca that tumblr exists, and that some of my work has been going around on here, so I decided to post some of my work up officially! Starting off with my most notable (?) work to date, here's my LOTR: The Middle Kingdom Project. Now, it's been over a year since I posted this, and at the time I was... really searchingfor myself artistically, and I decided to go all in on something that I'd been ruminating on for a long time.
So, hello, again. I'm Leia. I do visual development/BG design, and I'm also a writer of things. I love fantasy and transformative work. It's nice to meet you.
Re: this ask (I accidentally deleted it but had taken a screenshot, thankfully ^^;;)
I don't know historically how they tied their skirts, but currently there are multiple ways people tie their skirts :D
Most Hanfu shops sell 2 types of skirts when it comes to the waist ties:
1) With a hole provided for the tie to slide through (this one seems more common nowadays) 2) Without the hole provided
Skirts with the waist-tie hole provided are a bit easier as it allows the tie to wrap around your waist and stay in place nicely:
(Video src: 一对小玉镯)
If you have a skirt without the hole provided, I find this method the easiest to make it look nice:
(Video srcs: 子月儿- )
As for ways to actually tie the tie, here area a few common methods (the last 3 aren't very common, but they add a bit of a flare). I'm lazy, so I usually just do a simple butterfly tie (nowhere near as neatly as this video shows), and I tend to slide it to the side so it's not clearly seen. Some people put the knot front-and-centre so it's part of the outfit, all up to you how to wear it :D
(Video src: 零青子 , ENG subs by me but it's easier to just watch the video xD)
Meilin of Zhong [Spirit Animals] Doodles
A doodle session of Meilin from Fall of the Beasts in really inconsistent art styles. (And an unnecessary story below about her clothes)
According to Google, Zhong (Meilin's country if you're unfamiliar) is based primarily on China and a few other Asian influences. While looking at the cover art on some of the Spirit Animal books, I've determined what Meilin is wearing kinda resembles a white cheongsam under a blue puffy parka looking thing.
(I'm not an expert on clothes, just a rabbit hole diver)
Looking up what dynasty would have their women wear cheongsams and blue parkas, Google says that women apparently wore cheongsams in the Ming Dynasty. So I said great, I'll base off her clothes off of the hanfu (Chinese historical clothing) from the Ming dynasty.
But then I got deeper into the rabbit hole and thought, "Wait... The Tang Dynasty looks pretty cool and pretty accurate to her outfit in the beginning"
You know the fancy ceremony outfit that Meilin wore for her Nectar ceremony? According to the book, she applied gold flakes, rouge, and white face paint among other things to her face. Tang Dynasty women wore gold flakes on their faces too (I looked up Ming Dynasty and their makeup seems totally different)
Tang Dynasty is also more accurate to what I imagine Zhong was at the time, open to the other three countries and flourishing in trade. It reflects in the fashion, as women's fashion became more diverse with so many different influences. I've also read articles that the fashion was seen as more aggressive, which suits Meilin.
However, I cannot ignore that the cover art Meilin's fashion was most likely made in the likeness of Ming Dynasty clothing. (As it turns out, the not-cheongsam is actually an ao)
And that's how I ended up deciding that (headcanon) Zhong's fashion is mainly inspired from the Tang Dynasty, especially the outfits popular in the imperial court, but there's Ming-esque athleisure I guess. (Conveniently ignoring that women wore pleated skirts and preferred pastel colors)
For her court outfit, I decided on a qixiong ruqun, which uniquely has the waistband above the chest paired with a scarf. As for her casual Hero of Erdas outfit I have her wear a double layered top called an ao (well, ao is the shirt in aoqun the word, so I'm assuming it's just called so), which is worn untucked above the waist over a skirt or in this case a pair of pants.
Obviously I took artistic liberty in literally everything, so please forgive me if I am inaccurate in anyway in the explanation. Just looked up a bunch of stuff and tried to piece everything together, so don't take this explanation too seriously.
Note: @ziseviolet is a good source for those who want to learn more; I simply browsed through their stuff this time, but I plan on reading more cuz it's super fascinating
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