#ooc

Ha!

Of course

"Let the satyr off the altar, undo the straps, and put down the knife" "But how will the rains come for the crops?" "I've tried every safe word I know, HALP"

I know, I know, Kali... but still

Ever see Horrible histories? 🙂

no

Mmm not the best copy, the lyrics are too in the way, still fun though 🙂

still!

It's over now, but had some good stuff when it was around.

🙂 I am amused by this

I'm fond of this one, and keep thinking of making a Fiona lord based on this take

hahaha

spaniels

yes, we need this

They have a Magna Carta song done to the tune of "I would walk 10000 miles"

I might use this in class

G Glad if it helps

See, I love history, but I don't always like how its taught. I think sometimes if more kids knew about some of the less G rated stuff they might be interested. I know the parents might be upset, but it gets the kids attention

Not that I suggest a teacher open up with George Martin level sex and violence right off 😉

well - College

I joke that my stage costume class is "sex and death through clothing"

Hey, good tagline there!

Of course, historically fashion often did have touches of that. Silk worms slipped out of the East? You were taking your life in your hands to try IIRC

Purple was rare for a reason. Not sure if it's sure, some places had laws about what colors you could wear if you were commoner level

You'd know better than I 🙂

But now I'm imagining a sluagh seamstress gushing about fashion but with a morbid twist

well - yes, you have sumptuary laws, especially with the emergence of the middle class

they had money, the nobles had to do SOMETHING to make sure they didn't outshine them

GASP

of course, laws also exist because people were doing the thing. 🙂

(Huh, suddenly Nockers being the fashionistas takes on a rebellious angle)

Yes

And skirting the law with technicalities. One Venetian lady, on being arrested for having too many buttons on her sleeve, pointed out that they were NOT buttons, because there were no buttonholes. They were "just" beads.

Purple came from a particular kind of snail - rare & expensive. the restriction on purple goes back to rome - "tyrion purple" and "royal purple" are both SNAIL purple

Marking a citizen vs non-citizen was very important in rome, and reflected in dress.

And horror if some middle class person had a shade too close to it?

well, very difficult to achieve it

Suddenly I feel sorry for the snails

you don't get another purple dye until the 19th century - in fact, purple was the first synthetic/aniline dye.

Set off a total rage for mauve, btw

Berry dyes really don't look the same as murex. Like,,, just hard to get that color without synthetics.

And that's why Black Panther was right to go with purple highlights instead of the gold bling

Yes

(Yes, this is how my mind works)

...don't mind me, I am mentally mixing natural dyes in my head

I think most of the cross dyed I can think of get brownish or greyish undertones