qipaos are so cute tbh i wish my regional dress from czechia wasnt so god damn absurd looking. clown level shit. polish and ukrainians were more reasonable with that stuff
i wish my regional dress from czechia wasnt so god damn absurd looking. clown level shit
i was like "come on, you're just being silly" so i googled it and, yeah. wow.
:agony-shivering:
i refused to wear the boy ones and my grandma is like 'LOOK HERES ONE PRETTY DRESS FOR YOU' and im like BRUH NO
some of the city ones look better, opava's for instance, but it is just not a good vibe
Men will find anything attractive as long as it is inconvenient for women to wear.
Clothing without pockets is a subtle form of bondage gear.
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Z%C3%A1mek_Vla%C5%A1im_-_kroj.jpg
This isn't that bad, tbh. Tunic + Underskirt + Skirt +Vest + Apron is a really common form of european dress (see, french maid outfits transfems like so much). I think the embroidery and lacework are cute and give a nice personal touch (the ruff on this one is a lot though, I don't think anyone would blame you for going with a victorian style collar).
I'm sure you could make it work!
yeah thats one of the better city / super small subregion based ones, but when it comes to national dresses its always the really weird poofy ones and those are the most common in parades and stuff. if you know much about embroidery and heraldry it usually has like, your birth city on the aprons and shit which is kinda cute.
It looks like modern ones are based on nationalist redesigns around the WW2 era. The flashy nature of them wouldn't have been typical of proles and peasants who tended to look more like this:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bartok_recording_folk_music.jpg
yeah im obviously aware that they didnt wear the poofy stuff every day, afaik the poofy was for parades and festivals and that is the only time theyre worn these days. it was supposed to be for special occasions. most old ass family pics of ours have dudes in straight up stalin lookin gear :stalin-gun-2:
Fair. I've worn historical style stuff in the past and was kind of a nerd about it. So I guess I find it a little sad when people don't see the value in it. Historical clothing construction is pretty solid and comfortable in its own way.
yeah my thing is its super expensive, even with me buying it in USD, to get one and id probably go with my father's birth city cause their style looks way less fuckin weird cause they were a bunch of country bumpkins that dont design good
usually you get it as a sort of coming of age gift by your weird grandparents and its a whole ordeal
Norwegians are really into their national dress and it is not unusual, especially for women, to own one. It is usually gifted when they are confirmed as teenagers and is made to last a lifetime and can be rather pricey. Many Norwegians wears their national dress for festive occasions like weddings instead of modern attire. In Denmark national dress is virtually nonexistent outside of folk dancing circles and it has a dusty and unsexy image. The Faroese and the Inuit of Kalaallit Nunaat sometimes wears national dress at state functions as a way to assert their identity to their colonial overlords.
regional dress from czechia
what, you don't like opera costumes a bunch of kulaks in the 1890s decided were "national dress"?
Thinking about how early-2000s internet nazis would (e.g.) put a picture of Slavic women in traditional dress next to a picture of Ethiopian women with lip plates, and condescendingly ask you to decide which looks more 'civilized'. Then, if your answer diverges even slightly from the answer they're expecting, they don't have anything prepared to counter it, except "you're a liar."
At least your regional dress doesn't have you dress like an elf with a pointy hat.
the dresses are super poofy and creepy looking so idk. there are some more subdued city based ones but yeah its pretty bizarre looking
Here are a bunch of Finnish people in various regional dresses:
https://wiki.aineetonkulttuuriperinto.fi/uploads/thumb/2/2e/Kansallispuku_banneri.jpg/882px-Kansallispuku_banneri.jpg
IDK, I think most European national dresses just blend together
This old guy in green is looking pretty cool though:
https://nationalclothing.org/images/2014/07/finn1.jpg
Welsh women's national dress has basically a plant pot for a hat, so I get you.
yeah but i feel like its especially crazy for slavic women. ive gotten asked if i do porn based on the fact im from czechia before
dw that isnt nearly as bad as the harassment i got from one guy who found out i was trans through a loose lipped queer and basically stalked me and talked loudly about wanting to suck my dick to people
idk how people think academia is a good time
And I was so naive as to think harassment in academia was just nerds holding grudges over nerd shit.
I'm getting a bunch of parades and shit, the guys clothes have these ludicrous gigantic poofy sleeves
But I've got "save search history" disabled so it might be your own fault :pathetic:
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
How bright and brave they look, shouldering five-foot rifles
On the parade ground lit up by the first gleams of day.
China's daughters have high-aspiring minds,
They love their battle array, not silks and satins.
- :mao-wave:
Thanks, now i'll spend weeks wondering if i could some day pull off chun li cosplay and how counterrevolutionary that would be.
Headcanoning that Interpol are cryptocommies (or ancoms) because almost all their albums are black and red
Varies by which version of SF canon, really. Sort of like how Guile was allegedly in the US Army fighting in Vietnam before age 16, according to the original SF2 lore.
...which honestly seems like the sort of thing a die-hard Guile player would do. :luna-oi-shining:
Plenty conscripts for Vietnam, no need to assume they're there willingly. I still remember stories my neighbor would occasionally tell when he got drunk enough, he was conscripted and tried to get out of it but couldn't. The worst was him talking about the tube he had to shoot a toddler who was walking up to him with a grenade without the pin in, someone had turned her into a suicide bomber (almost certainly not the VC military btw). He broke down crying after that... Cancer and other complications from agent orange eventually killed him.... The empire is perfectly happy to sacrifice it's people too
The US minimum age for conscription was 18 back in the 1960s and 1970s. (It still is, but it used to be, too.) This was amended from age 18 in WWII to ages 19 to 26 by the Selective Service Act in 1948, but 18 year olds still had to register.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/app/uploads/2014/03/Timeline-of-of-conscription.pdf
In (old) press releases for Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, Guile is listed as being born in 1960, and allegedly fought in Vietnam alongside his buddy "Charlie." The last US troops were withdrawn from Vietnam in April of 1975. Thus, 1990s Capcom was apparently a fan of AmeriKKKan child soldiers. Regardless, the US MIC wasn't scooping up kids straight out of middle school and shipping them over to get composted by Uncle Ho.
(Note that Guile was later retconned to being a "trainee," according to the wiki.)
Edit: my source on the original 1994 stuff is an ancient Electronic Gaming Monthly article. I don't remember the issue number, but the writer and editors had a definite "wait, what?" moment when they got the character bio stuff from Capcom.
One's more of a party dress and the other is more of a party dress, you know?
It says something about China that they have a dress that is distinctly Chinese but also modern and cool, unlike western countries where national dress is the romantic fantasies of old-timey peasants' clothes dreamt up by bougie fucks in the 1800's.
Dressing up in the wear of a time when large-scale social murder meant that a peasant's life expectancy was less than 30: A-OK
Dressing up in the uniform of a party that brought about the biggest life expectancy boost in human history: terrible
