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ataraxion2013-10-16 09:35 pm
vivelavenir) wrote in ataraxion2013-10-16 09:35 pm
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[Video] Fashion Disaster
[In light of all this... mess, really, going on with everyone's minds (it did seem to be contagious), perhaps now was not the time to explore new things. Perhaps now was the time to really hold in place what one's personality ought to be, and to cling to it.
Despite that, Jehan and Courfeyrac have decided upon now to finally take the foray into modern fashion. Jehan can't say he's thrilled with the result, but the clothing items they have lifted from the Cyllene at least fit... for the most part.
Being rather dismal with technology still, he'd meant to put in a call to Combeferre, whom he thought might be amused with the antics (...and might tell them what he planned to do with those dresses, finally.)
Instead, network, have a man in his early twenties, from 1832, in front of the camera wearing a streamlined, white jacket. Which might not have been so bad, if he had not insisted on wearing it with a bright tie, which he had fashioned into a bow around his neck.
Courfeyrac had done... something to his hair, with some form of goo he'd found in one of the bathrooms on the other ship, and he had not liked it. It was sticky. He'd tried to comb it out with his hands, and the result was that it now more-or-less stood straight up, tilted to the side violently, and had frozen like that, as if in shock.]
Is this-- is it recording?
[A pause.
He had no time to be embarrassed. He had a few questions.]
This is absurd. The buttons on these costumes-- they have no button holes, the half of them. Are they meant to connect to nothing?
[In his attempt to figure out why on earth a jacket would have buttons that were only for show, he's fastened two into the same hole, in a few places; with a herculean amount of effort.]
And some of these pockets are stitched shut.
Is all clothing like this, past our day? Do men really wear pants quite so tight; and how do you go about fitting suspenders onto pants that have no buttons in the back?
[He has figured belts... to an extent. As the pants he'd taken sat much lower than he was used to, he'd used the belt to fasten them nearly to his waist, putting it through only one loop and pulling tight. Over the jacket.
The result is more or less a disaster, and he'd readily admit it leaned towards more; the clothes simply didn't make sense.]
Really, I cannot say I imagine I am wearing this... absolutely correctly. But is it made correctly? These are pieces we have found, and I've seen all manner of clothing on board this vessel.
Are such things really comfortable? I can't say they seem useful, exactly...
Are all pockets in the future stitched shut?
[Someone has to ask the Serious Questions, Tranquility.]
Despite that, Jehan and Courfeyrac have decided upon now to finally take the foray into modern fashion. Jehan can't say he's thrilled with the result, but the clothing items they have lifted from the Cyllene at least fit... for the most part.
Being rather dismal with technology still, he'd meant to put in a call to Combeferre, whom he thought might be amused with the antics (...and might tell them what he planned to do with those dresses, finally.)
Instead, network, have a man in his early twenties, from 1832, in front of the camera wearing a streamlined, white jacket. Which might not have been so bad, if he had not insisted on wearing it with a bright tie, which he had fashioned into a bow around his neck.
Courfeyrac had done... something to his hair, with some form of goo he'd found in one of the bathrooms on the other ship, and he had not liked it. It was sticky. He'd tried to comb it out with his hands, and the result was that it now more-or-less stood straight up, tilted to the side violently, and had frozen like that, as if in shock.]
Is this-- is it recording?
[A pause.
He had no time to be embarrassed. He had a few questions.]
This is absurd. The buttons on these costumes-- they have no button holes, the half of them. Are they meant to connect to nothing?
[In his attempt to figure out why on earth a jacket would have buttons that were only for show, he's fastened two into the same hole, in a few places; with a herculean amount of effort.]
And some of these pockets are stitched shut.
Is all clothing like this, past our day? Do men really wear pants quite so tight; and how do you go about fitting suspenders onto pants that have no buttons in the back?
[He has figured belts... to an extent. As the pants he'd taken sat much lower than he was used to, he'd used the belt to fasten them nearly to his waist, putting it through only one loop and pulling tight. Over the jacket.
The result is more or less a disaster, and he'd readily admit it leaned towards more; the clothes simply didn't make sense.]
Really, I cannot say I imagine I am wearing this... absolutely correctly. But is it made correctly? These are pieces we have found, and I've seen all manner of clothing on board this vessel.
Are such things really comfortable? I can't say they seem useful, exactly...
Are all pockets in the future stitched shut?
[Someone has to ask the Serious Questions, Tranquility.]
[Video]
It looks like you got dressed in the dark. Loose the cravate and the jacket would be a little better...
[Video]
He really had not expected--
Well.]
By lamplight, I assure you...
I'm afraid the cravat is the only element I'm somewhat fond of, in the ensemble.
[Video]
What I had meant to say was that another color for your cravat would have suited the jacket better.
[Video]
[He gave him a momentary, squinting look before... attempting to continue their civility. This topic feels increasingly ridiculous, but;]
And... what colour might you suggest, then?
Re: [Video]
A man of fashion you are, Monsieur! I had not imagined you as such! I have fixed the way the cravate has been fashioned for now, knowing very well that he would not care to lose it.
[Video]
What is it that you really want to say?
[Video]
I mean to say I had not been aware that you knew a thing or so about fashion, that is all.