The Victorian Smear Campaign on Regency Fashion

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  • Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
  • Thanks for watching my first UA-cam video! We’re exploring the Victorian condemnation of feminine regency fashion…because I think it’s interesting, and hopefully so will you.
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  • @aliciavquinn
    @aliciavquinn  8 місяців тому +64

    10k views in the first 4 days on my first long-form video 🥲🫶🏻 Thanks to all watching and commenting. I am SO grateful and currently working on my next video (mic issues resolved and will be out of this temp filming location).

  • @babsybrrrnz
    @babsybrrrnz 9 місяців тому +377

    I think it's fascinating that no matter when the youth tend to love/gravitate to what their grandparents/elders wore in their youth.

    • @cakefaceLala
      @cakefaceLala 9 місяців тому +38

      I remember once hearing a saying, something along the lines of, your children will always reflect your parents more than you.

    • @GH-fb9dh
      @GH-fb9dh 8 місяців тому +9

      And hate what their parents wore 😂

    • @piccalillipit9211
      @piccalillipit9211 8 місяців тому +19

      I was talking to a lady last week, she told me she was at a conference and this other woman had a stunning blue skirt & jacket combination, she told her she looked great and asked where she bought it? Her grandfather had made it for her grandmother in 1940.
      That story made me so happy for some reason.

    • @spaghettiking7312
      @spaghettiking7312 8 місяців тому +2

      I like wearing old style suits, and I'm sometimes seen as having a bit of a grandpa style. I've been compared to my grandfather, even though I never got to meet him.

  • @jakecavendish3470
    @jakecavendish3470 8 місяців тому +177

    Years ago I read a diary account of a ball given in London in the 1840s (I think it was at Holland House but may have been Buckingham Palace) and it was hilarious. Basically a young woman was complaining that all the women over 60 were dressed with their boobs and shoulders on display, had loads of rouge and powder on, and were basically roaring drunk. It was like reading the diary of a vegan gen Z at a boomer BBQ.😂

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  8 місяців тому +22

      That’s so funny! Such a great analogy

    • @rooo358
      @rooo358 8 місяців тому +1

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @somethingclever8916
    @somethingclever8916 9 місяців тому +216

    So shaming fashion of a bygone era isn't a new thing.
    In 50 years, the young generation will look at the fashions of now "funny looking" " unflattering" "unattractive"
    And chances are they will comment about how dirty and smelling we are.

    • @Eloraurora
      @Eloraurora 9 місяців тому +28

      There's an exchange in (IIRC) _Mrs. McGinty's Dead_ that notes this trend. They're looking at old photos, and an older woman is ruefully acknowledging a young woman saying how silly they look to modern eyes. In response, a young man reassures her that the young woman will feel much the same in a few decades.

    • @Lady_dromeda
      @Lady_dromeda 9 місяців тому +5

      Right now i question the fashion styles of today 😂 (because i prefer more vintage and historical fashion styles patially) because: why do all the shirts have to be cropped? I mean i like it but my dad complains every time i wear one (and im 24)

    • @MorganChaos
      @MorganChaos 9 місяців тому +1

      Why dirty and smelly??

    • @MorganChaos
      @MorganChaos 9 місяців тому +2

      @@stunt-girl okay fair enough lol. My mind went to how in the modern day we've never washed more and never needed to wash less so if anything I expect we'll realize it's better for skin and hair to wash every other day or twice a week

    • @jaybee4118
      @jaybee4118 8 місяців тому +3

      @@Lady_dromedathey did the same in the 90s when I was your age. Basically anything younger people (mostly women) wear is always criticised.

  • @71lizgoeshardt
    @71lizgoeshardt 9 місяців тому +188

    There's a passage in "Gone With the Wind" where Scarlett is reflecting on a portrait of her grandmother (or great grandmother?) and how scandalous she was, including wetting her petticoats so her dress would stick to her legs and her body shape was shown. And plus plus boobies.

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому +16

      Oh nice catch!

    • @zvezdoblyat
      @zvezdoblyat 8 місяців тому

      Ew... Have you walked around in wet clothes before? That sounds horrible, especially with multiple layers

    • @yorgivon-schmourgeussborgi
      @yorgivon-schmourgeussborgi 8 місяців тому +7

      It's actually in Scarlett, not GWTW

  • @KateKatastrophe
    @KateKatastrophe 9 місяців тому +12

    Love the editing it's silly/funny without being over the top or distracting.

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому +4

      Thanks for saying so! I’m still figuring out my style and editing in general, so that’s good to hear ☺️

  • @Littleme_iam
    @Littleme_iam 9 місяців тому +9

    im in 8th grade and i take fashion class, you talk like how our teacher talks, ima tell her to show this video! you are amazing

  • @karanoia-agent
    @karanoia-agent 8 місяців тому

    Love your knowledge in these matters! I think it’s important to remember that colleges and universities were about learning and not just using a degree to get a job. Thank you for educating us!

  • @jessisamess4062
    @jessisamess4062 5 місяців тому +1

    i love this video so much! i had no idea about this phenomenon before, and I also had no idea there was scholarship about the anachronistic dress in Vanity Fair. exciting stuff!

  • @Gabis_vintage
    @Gabis_vintage 9 місяців тому

    ALICIA! I was SOOOO EXCITED TO SEE THIS on my YT page! GO OFFFFFFF

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому

      AHHH GABI!! This just made me so happy 😭♥️

  • @AmberOrtolano
    @AmberOrtolano 9 місяців тому +4

    I’m sooooo sick rn so thank you for the entertainment and education queen 😌🧡🧡🧡

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому

      Oh Amber how I adore you!!! Hope you feel better soon, queen 🥹🫶🏻

  • @iancampbell8143
    @iancampbell8143 9 місяців тому +3

    This is amazing! I am liking, sharing, AND ringing that bell!

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому

      Aweee bestie!!! 🥹🫶🏻

  • @billdunlop2390
    @billdunlop2390 6 місяців тому

    Thank you! That was so interesting I love content like this.

  • @arionrhod6383
    @arionrhod6383 9 місяців тому

    I love the video, especially your analysis of Jane Eyre! Fascinating topic, I look forward to seeing more of your videos!

  • @piccalillipit9211
    @piccalillipit9211 8 місяців тому

    *WISHING YOU LIUCK WITH THE LONG FORM VIDEOS* this seemed really well researched and presented, not a subject that fascinates me but I subscribed as I am sure you will cover subjects that DO fascinate me...!!!

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  8 місяців тому

      Thank you so much! 🥹🫶🏻

    • @piccalillipit9211
      @piccalillipit9211 8 місяців тому

      @@aliciavquinn The very best of luck for 2024..!!!

  • @alr49
    @alr49 9 місяців тому

    would love to see the debunking myths video you mentioned. loved this!

  • @rodmaher194
    @rodmaher194 9 місяців тому +1

    This was great! Proud of you! Glad you achieved your new years resolution in the end. 😅👏

  • @lucymodmontgomery4108
    @lucymodmontgomery4108 8 місяців тому +1

    Ahh yes, I fondly recall how DELICIOUSLY slutty we all were in the Regency era! Got to start bringing back some of these *lewks* in 2024!

  • @sheleavitt06
    @sheleavitt06 9 місяців тому +4

    Do the debate about what time frame the Anne of Green Gables books take place.

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому +2

      I’m looking into this immediately

    • @71lizgoeshardt
      @71lizgoeshardt 9 місяців тому

      Wait. But "Rilla of Ingleside" is WWI. I didn't know there was any debate possible?

    • @sheleavitt06
      @sheleavitt06 9 місяців тому +1

      It’s over if Anne was born in 1860s or 1880s basically

  • @secstraus
    @secstraus 8 місяців тому

    Happy to watch anything you've already got in the queue, but if you're looking for brainstorming ideas, I would love a discussion of the forces at work in retro fashion. I was very interested in your comments on the return to Regency styles for young girls after the Victorians vilified them for adult women in previous decades. I'm thinking of the revival of Art Nouveau and Medieval references in the 1960's and the Neo-Victorian elements of the 1980s. What drives aesthetics to return and why do we take some elements (00's ultra low rise) and leave others behind (00's being orange)?

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  8 місяців тому +1

      Thank you so much! I definitely plan to visit those topics on here. My research interests mostly lie within 20th century revivalist styles and their inspirations. I actually wrote my dissertation on the Art Deco revival of the 1960s and 1970s ☺️ I also collect and wear vintage fashion, and 60s medieval revival is one of my all time favs! The revisitation of Art Nouveau and the rise of neomedievalism in fashion and music alongside the counterculture movement especially fascinate me. So definitely some revival fashion content on the horizon.

    • @secstraus
      @secstraus 8 місяців тому

      I'm so excited! Subscribed and ready to see what's next!

  • @elisaesperante6805
    @elisaesperante6805 8 місяців тому

    Fascinating video!! Loved it

  • @Nattyzeenha
    @Nattyzeenha 8 місяців тому

    Love thiiis! Thanks YT for recommending!

  • @emilyrln
    @emilyrln 8 місяців тому

    God damn, this was fascinating! 👏✨

  • @jennaroark
    @jennaroark 8 місяців тому

    Long form fashion history yes yes yes 🫶🏻

  • @Lilas.Duveteux
    @Lilas.Duveteux 9 місяців тому

    Well, the early 1800s fashion in France, to my knowledge, was more mocked for showing skin and having short hair
    (Frenchwomen cut their hair short in the Titus fashion, and in a very messy haircut at that) than anything else.
    Also, it's quite ironic that the silhouette and fashion in France appeared more as a response to XVIIIth century sexual and feminine liberation, and that Napoleon himself, coming from Corse, implemented the values of this part of the world into his Civil Code.

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому +1

      Indeed, though not super ubiquitous, such hairstyles amongst elite women dressing à la grecque were an expression of agency and liberation. Of course, no woman was free from her contemporaries mocking her! Here’s a great academic journal article on the topic: Cage, E. Claire. "The Sartorial Self: Neoclassical Fashion and Gender Identity in France, 1797-1804." Eighteenth-Century Studies 42, no. 2 (2009): 193-215. doi.org/10.1353/ecs.0.0039.

  • @MrAranton
    @MrAranton 8 місяців тому

    NO! My grandfathers both spent much of their youth wearing various third Reich uniforms and I absolutely do NOT gravitate that way!

  • @showersinger38
    @showersinger38 9 місяців тому

    35 minutes isn't that long compared to most of what's in my feed!

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому +1

      Same! Did a lot of necessary editing down, thankfully 😅

  • @austinroberts4008
    @austinroberts4008 4 місяці тому

    Were you born a fascinating person , or did you train yourself to be that way at some point in your life ?

  • @shavellyn
    @shavellyn 9 місяців тому +3

    🫶

  • @bettyboop-ip2ql
    @bettyboop-ip2ql 9 місяців тому

    ACK YAY IVE BEEN FOLLOWING U ON INSTA AND THIS VID EATS. WE LOVE AUSTENCORE

  • @RCZeta919
    @RCZeta919 9 місяців тому +113

    I'm working at an 1820s historic site right now, and so the transition from Regency silhouettes into Victorian is taking up my entire brain. Thank you for a marvelous dissection of a fascinating topic!

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому +6

      Wow, that sounds like such fun - so happy my video found its way to you!! Thanks for this comment 😊

  • @71lizgoeshardt
    @71lizgoeshardt 9 місяців тому +70

    "Jane Eyre" being Regency and not Victorian is kinda blowing my mind, not gonna lie.

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому +10

      Some are still divided on that, but I think it makes the most sense! I was definitely mind blown when first presented with that theory too haha

    • @nataliatheweirdo
      @nataliatheweirdo 9 місяців тому +5

      i think of it as both tbh, my brain thinks its victorian but its set in the 1820’s 😭

    • @thenablade858
      @thenablade858 8 місяців тому +12

      It’s set in the Georgian (regency) period. People think it’s Victorian because the films go this route + the book was published in the Victorian era.

  • @cadr003
    @cadr003 8 місяців тому +55

    Its crazy how short the Regency was compared to the Victorian, but the haters hated on the fashion far longer than entire duration of the era.

    • @soneil7745
      @soneil7745 2 місяці тому

      It's just like the super-cinched "wasp waist" was only a thing for a decade or two, and here we are over a century later being like "GEEEAHHHHHHHH"
      I didn't realize it until someone else on UA-cam (I wish I remembered who!) pointed it out. Then I was like 🤯
      Until then, I thought that ultra-tight-lacing was as old as corsets.

  • @connerbdelgado
    @connerbdelgado 9 місяців тому +54

    I love how cultural context heavy this video is!! that was my favorite part to read about when I studied art history. I literally bookmarked the sources so I can devour them later.

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому +2

      Ah thanks!! Art history nerds always find each other haha

  • @theoriginalsuzycat
    @theoriginalsuzycat 8 місяців тому +13

    I was listening and when i heard "Jane Eyre is set in the Victorian period" I was all NO IT WAS NOT BLANCHE ET AL HAD TURBANS ETC and i was so relieved to hear you refute it!!!

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  8 місяців тому +4

      “Blanche et al” LMAOOO

  • @kateb2643
    @kateb2643 9 місяців тому +54

    I can never get enough of fashion history. So glad I found you!

  • @juanpr1989
    @juanpr1989 9 місяців тому +38

    Congrats on your first long video! I enjoyed every bit of it. It's very interesting how a generation rejects the previous one in different ways. For future topic suggestions, as a music scholar, I'm interested in how you would approach the relation of fashion with opera, burlesque, and theater, from how people dressed for going to the opera to how costumes influenced fashion. Thanks for the great content!

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому +6

      Thank you so much!!! What a great suggestion - I’ll definitely give this some thought 😊 would be fun to research

  • @MesRevesEnRose
    @MesRevesEnRose 8 місяців тому +36

    Also now I can't help but make the connection with the rise of AI and climate change with the rise of TradWife/Coquette/Barbie aesthetic or even the Cottage Core/Homestead aesthetics. Or if we want to go further, the return of authoritarian governments. People are scared and there are definitely signs social regression. People want to be reassured and told what to do. Young people are romanticizing the past when things were 'simpler'. I'm a young millennial (93) but I remember the late 90s/00s when there was still excitement about the future and that was reflected in futuristic fashion and in movies like Zenon and Smart House. I think we're the last recent generation of teens that were actually optimistic about the future. 💀

    • @ladylongsleeves3175
      @ladylongsleeves3175 8 місяців тому +1

      Absolutely

    • @pisceanbeauty2503
      @pisceanbeauty2503 7 місяців тому +4

      Yup, and it’s kind of scary to see a younger generation in some ways becoming more conservative than past ones.

    • @arielslack7015
      @arielslack7015 4 місяці тому +1

      That’s true I’m an Xlenial We were very optimist back then

    • @arielslack7015
      @arielslack7015 4 місяці тому

      @@pisceanbeauty2503that because the have to deal with things we didn’t have to

  • @dl2725
    @dl2725 8 місяців тому +7

    This is fascinating… I’ve read so many “Regency Romances” in which the protagonists have values and perspectives imported from the time in which they were written (like, 90s flavoured feminist astride-riding cheroot-smoking liberated-but chaste-young women). I never realized that Charlotte Brontë did it first!

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  8 місяців тому +1

      Such a good observation! Perhaps the Regency woman has sometimes been used as a blank canvas to project upon

    • @dl2725
      @dl2725 8 місяців тому +1

      @@aliciavquinn I wasn't as into the western frontier, pirate or medieval costume romances, but I expect the authors projected modern sensibilities in the same way... or maybe there IS something about the Regency woman. Sitting in a parlour plying the only trades allowed--attracting a husband and commenting on one's peers--it's a particularly blank canvas...? 🤔

  • @RedGingham
    @RedGingham 9 місяців тому +13

    Your voice is so pretty 💕 I can’t wait to watch this I love history

  • @charlotteb6450
    @charlotteb6450 8 місяців тому +5

    so shocked you're new to these sorts of videos, definitely earned a new subscriber!!

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  8 місяців тому

      Oh thank you 🥹 I really appreciate it!

  • @toysforboysrc
    @toysforboysrc 3 місяці тому +3

    You’re sooooo pretty my gosh 🤪 your beauty triangle is literally diamond cut to perfection.
    You remind me of my pre-teen niece personality and all.

  • @lilykatmoon4508
    @lilykatmoon4508 8 місяців тому +5

    What a fascinating topic that I had never really considered before. I’m ashamed to admit, I’ve never read any of the Brontë’s while I’ve devoured Jane Austen. I’m making a resolution to read Jane Eyre this year. I’ve watched several biographies of the Brontë sisters last year, and I’m really interested in finally reading their body of works. I’ll go into it with the fashion history knowledge from this video. While I adore Jane Austen, Regency fashion isn’t my favorite silhouette. Bustle era and late Victorian fashion and 18th century are my favorite eras. It’s always a delight to discover that people share certain ways of thinking across time and space. To learn about the shade Victorians threw on the Regency Era, cracks me up. As far as away as those time periods can feel, people are people, aren’t they. I’m really enjoying your videos so far. Very educational and thought provoking. Great start!

  • @sabrinast-pierre3619
    @sabrinast-pierre3619 3 місяці тому +2

    sssooo we are pretty much living in the Victorian era with the return of the ''trad wife'' anxieties over new tech, social rigidity, and sicknesses? got it!! T_T

  • @keiththorpe9571
    @keiththorpe9571 8 місяців тому +2

    Women going outside and touching grass for the first time in nearly a century in 1901: "Oh, it's everything I thought it would be, and more! NO, I WON'T GO BACK INTO THE PARLOR, AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!"

  • @no.1appastan
    @no.1appastan 8 місяців тому +9

    Went to go binge the rest of your videos after loving this one and literally cried when i saw this was your only one 😢😢😢 pls pls pls post again as soon as you can!! Youre amazing!! ❤

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  8 місяців тому +5

      Oh thank you so much!! Working on the next one now and planning many, many more 🥰

  • @MesRevesEnRose
    @MesRevesEnRose 8 місяців тому +6

    Omg I'm usually one to find past fashion cute because I always judge it in the historical context it belongs to. Like for example, I KNOW that tribal print black and white dress was SERVING in 2012 because I had the same one. 🤣 And those patterned wedge shoes? So cute in 2013! Comfortable, would look cute with skinny jeans but adds a POP to the outfit. I know you got compliments back then!!! 😂 So that's usually my vibe when seeing outfits from the past but recently ny mom went to my old high school and sent me a photo of me in my classes grad portrait which they hang atound the school. Omg my 2011 emo-inspired side bangs and under eye black liner made me want to scratch my eyes out and die. 😂 Because I was literally like I know how these new kids see me 🙈 they're judging my ugly ass hair just like I meanly judged every graduate's from the 80s. 😭

  • @haruno21
    @haruno21 9 місяців тому +2

    I don't like the typical regency dress because I hate the empire cut.... So unflattering

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому +2

      I honestly love it 🥲 especially the 1810s

  • @jazbean
    @jazbean 9 місяців тому +17

    This was so funny and really well written! a future topic could be a similar look into edwardian fashion and the transition into 1920s flapper style, i feel like there was an equivalent shift in societal values around that time, it could make another interesting video? 🩵

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому +7

      Thank you kindly! Oh I’d love to explore that - part of my dissertation discussed the origin of Art Deco and the transition into 1920s fashion 🥰 thanks for the suggestion

  • @Evan.280
    @Evan.280 9 місяців тому +12

    Super excited for the long form content! Looking as gorgeous as always ✨

  • @jakecavendish3470
    @jakecavendish3470 8 місяців тому +2

    In Britain I think one of the biggest changes was the rise of Methodism- a lot of the upper middle classes and aristocracy, especially women, became Methodists in the late 1820s onwards and it led to a radical break with the perceiced amorailty/immorality of the Regency

  • @imaginationsmusic1985
    @imaginationsmusic1985 9 місяців тому +4

    *you naming the things you didn't like*
    Me: well at least you look beautiful no matter what. I on the other hand always look like a dead baboon or seagull 💀 no offense to baboons and seagulls☝

  • @soneil7745
    @soneil7745 2 місяці тому +2

    All this condemnation must have been bizarre for Regency women as they got older and fashions changed. I wonder if this is how ex-flappers felt when seeing their daughters and granddaughters grow up in the fifties.

    • @sarasamaletdin4574
      @sarasamaletdin4574 15 днів тому

      Flapper era was pretty brief as was regency (although a bit longer). The earlier gens were still there to influence both eras so they would always have heard of criticism

  • @songsofsusannah
    @songsofsusannah 8 місяців тому +2

    I've always wondered, why would women be willing to give up the comfort and ease of motion of Regency clothing for the up to 40 pounds of underwear worn by upper-class Victorian women just before the advent of the cage crinoline. The only explanation I've ever come up with is, "Conspicuous consumption." It's interesting to learn that the next generation actually found Regency clothing indecent. Aesthetically, the Regency era isn't my favorite, but I cannot deny how practical the clothing was. The most practical Western women's clothing since the supportive kirtle, in my opinion.

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  8 місяців тому +1

      Conspicuous consumption absolutely played a role, as well! I think a lot of Victorian fashion is beautiful, but yeah, I’d rather take Regency fashion any day.

  • @pvp6077
    @pvp6077 3 місяці тому +1

    I'm about 11 mins in s and so far I've learned that the Regency Era was the "flower children hippies" and "micromini skirts and plastic dresses" generation, while the Victorians spanned from 80s powersuits to post millenial tradwives and alpha male podcasters. Intriguing.

  • @MorganChaos
    @MorganChaos 9 місяців тому +7

    Congrats on your first full length video! I don't think I've ever been this early to a youtuber I'm gonna love, this is very exciting for me. I don't know if this is quite in your wheelhouse or interests you, but I'm fascinated by the history of childbirth, breastfeeding, and menstruation management and how that all related to clothing. I know we've all heard that aristocratic women never breastfed, but surely SOMEONE did, right? In what eras could stays just be not laced as tightly for pregnancy/unlaced for breastfeeding and who, if anyone, had specific maternity wear? What was even going on with periods??

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому +3

      What a lovely compliment! Truly made me smile, because I’ve had that exact feeling before and I can’t believe someone has said so about me 🥹 thank you. And absolutely would love to do a video on that topic!

  • @MesRevesEnRose
    @MesRevesEnRose 8 місяців тому +6

    Loved the video 💖 literally obsessed with your analysis. I was familiar with both fashion eras and read most books mentioned but literally never made the connection why the fashion had changed to be more conservative. Actually, for years I thought Regency fashion was the more recent of the two. I only learned a few years ago when I went to Victoria and Albert museum and they had a fashion timeline there but even then they didn't really explain and just said that technology advancement made it easier to get the Victorian shape. Your analysis is so much better than the guide we booked lol. Please do more of these!!! 💖

  • @HeyCo_okie
    @HeyCo_okie 9 місяців тому +10

    Loved every second of this. I love watching videos on fashion/dress history, especially while I'm sewing, it's like it's own weird version of ASMR. Please make more long vids! 💜

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому

      Made me smile - I wish I could sew! Thank you and definitely more to come 🥰

    • @drsalka
      @drsalka 8 місяців тому

      Seconding that^^ - was literally sewing a pair of leggings myself as I listened (and got a bit less ignorant in the process) to this great "lecture". Hopefully she can make more videos similar to this one.

  • @yesinrealtechnicolor
    @yesinrealtechnicolor 9 місяців тому +8

    Keep going!! The first step in the roughest but the most important!!!

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому +1

      Thank you! It was a big learning curve, but I’m having fun with it now 😊

  • @user-ilovemrfahrenheit
    @user-ilovemrfahrenheit 9 місяців тому +3

    girl ur so pretty i cant 😭(coming from a fellow girl not a creep 💀)

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому +4

      Thank you you’re so sweet 🥹

  • @MuggleBornMom
    @MuggleBornMom 9 місяців тому +8

    I came upon your channel just a few days ago & so glad I did! I couldn’t get enough….I immediately subscribed. I can’t get over how seamlessly you depict 60’s & 70’s (and all) vintage fashion. Your style and portrayal of the “characters” within your shorts are simply perfection … you have certainly found your calling! And now we have been blessed with your first full length video…congrats! Wishing you much success as you continue moving forward with one of the best channels I have ever watched ❤️

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому +3

      Thank you so much for this lovely comment! I read it several times over - can’t tell you how much that means and so glad you’re here.

  • @yurironoue5888
    @yurironoue5888 8 місяців тому +5

    A common theme across the examples you've given is men complaining about what women are wearing and how they presented themselves and casting unfair moral judgements about their sartorial choices. Something men and pick-me conservative women have never stopped doing, across time and cultures.
    I love the Empire silhouette, but I also Iove Victorian fashion. Everything between 1400-1889 really. I'm just a 🏳️‍🌈 guy who loves period fashion and I believe that women should dress however they like , without nosy moral police casting moral judgements on their choice of dress. I mean, that example you showed about the artist mocking what women wore, whether they wore modest Victorian fashion or the more liberating Empire silhouette and casting judgement on their character based on that (the salacious Vs excessive, no way to win conundrum that Women have been subjected to by fickle patriarchal norms. Why did these men care so much, it's difficult to make any sense of it, tbh!) Women should have been allowed to choose whatever style suited them best without fearing judgement from society. Fashion can be enjoyed best without the weight of the fear of social judgement weighing the people down, regardless of gender.

    • @lakaperse6995
      @lakaperse6995 8 місяців тому

      The worst in all of that is that fashion industry is shaped by men especially fashion for women . It is practically gaslighting.

  • @RainOpProductions
    @RainOpProductions День тому

    I have been lementing, in my deep dive into the fashion of the era in comparison to todays modern interpretations in historical costuming, how everyone seems so scared of their breasts when they were the body part most celebrated during the Regency. Ive thought it might be Evangelism that most of the fanbase is part of because the French and Russian costumers dont seem to have this problem, and your theory fits in with my line of thinking! Thank you for bringing this up!

  • @stephengreen-dowden9068
    @stephengreen-dowden9068 8 місяців тому +2

    Hi, great video. I love the regency period. My area of historical study is 19th British period.

  • @sarahwatts7152
    @sarahwatts7152 8 місяців тому +1

    There must have been a couple people at least who dampened their skirts - but I figure it's like tight lacing. A few dumb young women (dumb mainly because they were young) did it, but now most people assume it was all women

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  8 місяців тому +1

      I think it’s fun to imagine a few women doing it on a dare or something, but yeah, there is no reliable evidence to support the claim.

  • @mattydems
    @mattydems 9 місяців тому +4

    This was way more informational than I expected, in the best possible way 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому

      So happy to see you here 🥰

  • @Sparkling34
    @Sparkling34 9 місяців тому +2

    your hair is so pretty. you look reminiscent of a porcelain doll

  • @sarasamaletdin4574
    @sarasamaletdin4574 15 днів тому

    The Jane Eyre dating debate is quite interesting and what I have seen debated prior. I am not entirely convinced if Regency is the real setting however, like you said the descriptions of the past don’t match. People can also own old paintings they can refer to their previous names and read and receive book much later, maybe Bronte was more saying something about the book itself. If the setting is more 1830s or early 1840s the fashions were quite ridiculous, colorful and made of luxorious fabrics. Which more matches to me what the ladies critiqued are wearing.

  • @evelinapushkash6827
    @evelinapushkash6827 9 місяців тому +3

    Just to let you know
    Face: flawless
    Hair: fabulous
    Voice: pleasant
    Outfit: awesome
    Keep up, I subscribed ❤❤ 2024 will be your year!

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому

      So very kind!! Thanks for being here 🥹🫶🏻

  • @standard9741
    @standard9741 8 місяців тому +3

    Thank you for the fashion history video essay! Definitely excited for more. I like how your comparing and contrasting involved like, the social worries and values of their respective timessss

  • @gasstationcandy
    @gasstationcandy 2 місяці тому

    I love mid 18th century fashion and the more dour, quirky "Victorian" era, it's fashion and literature/art but I do dislike how as time goes on we lambaste and roast was used to be. It's why I struggle with being a hater because what I might dislike someone might cherish. I love learning about the past and how often it reflects the present.

  • @VetsrisAuguste
    @VetsrisAuguste 8 місяців тому

    I’m only a quarter of the way through so far but I had to chime in. I hadn’t ever considered the fact that the Romantic Era, with all its gothic silliness and commercialized superstition, was a backlash against the Enlightenment. As baffling as the phenomenon may be, it seems we are prone to this persistant pattern. One might say our society is immersed in a period of intellectual backslide in the wake of a protracted modern enlightenment with the current rise in pseudoscience and nationalism. Much like the ways in which intellectual advancements of the 18th century were accompanied by loosening restrictions in fashion, the restrictions restored by the Victorians were progressively loosened back up as technology advanced throughout the 20th century. It makes me curious how the current rise in culturally regressive politics will impact fashion in the decades to come.

  • @ritamartins927
    @ritamartins927 8 місяців тому +2

    You only have one fashion history video?? give us more!!

  • @Natilra
    @Natilra 8 місяців тому +1

    You said the adaptations of Jane Eyre tend to go for the Victorian publication date for costuming inspiration. But hearing you talk so much about Vanity Fair made me wonder what you make of the costumes in the 2004 film - did they follow Regency or Victorian style or neither?

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  8 місяців тому +2

      Vanity Fair (2004) definitely goes for Regency! It’s not entirely accurate, but it’s fun ☺️

  • @MrWik_
    @MrWik_ 9 місяців тому +3

    i have no interest in Fashion but i watched the entire video. you're so easy to listen to.

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому +1

      Such a compliment! Really appreciate it 😊

  • @Rachelle660
    @Rachelle660 8 місяців тому +3

    Can’t believe this is your first video! Girl, you snapped 😂👏

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  8 місяців тому +1

      Thank you so much! 😭🫶🏻

  • @billdunlop2390
    @billdunlop2390 6 місяців тому

    Future ideas. Different interpretation of the same fashion trend globally

  • @jennissimo3520
    @jennissimo3520 8 місяців тому +2

    really interesting topic and examples! i subscribed 😊 if i could suggest one technical thing, it would be great to change your mic settings or something to reduce the echo from recording in such an open space. i don't know if other people have this problem but it makes it more difficult for me at least to focus/properly take in the information when the audio is less clear. it wasn't unlistenable by any means but it would make it easier to absorb the content of the video 😊

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  8 місяців тому +2

      Thank you very much - happy to have you here! Oh yes, this was just a temporary filming location and as aforementioned, I had some mic issues and quite the learning curve 😅 Thankfully, should be resolved by next video!

    • @jennissimo3520
      @jennissimo3520 8 місяців тому

      @@aliciavquinn completely understandable! good luck with your next videos 😄

  • @Du-Masses
    @Du-Masses 9 місяців тому +1

    I thought I knew Jane Eyre but missed that it may have been set during the regency. That time period would make sense with Rochester as a Byronic figure...cool.

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому +1

      I didn’t even think of that - totally!

  • @rocketpost1
    @rocketpost1 9 місяців тому +1

    Very well researched Alicia, this must have taken you ages. I only watched this because your shorts (films) make me laugh and you seem fixated on the 60s and 70s. I'm not interested in fashion but found this an interesting record of the attitudes of the time and not forgetting of course that women are still repressed in many parts of the world today. It would be interesting for you to explore the fashions of the 60s and 70s along with the great music of the time. If I have one minor criticism, it's that you talk rather fast for an old geezer like me so I set the playback speed to 0.75 which was perfect. Thanks.

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому

      Thanks for watching and commenting! 60s and 70s are my personal favorite to emulate, but my fashion history studies were varied (although I have my favorite eras and biases, of course). Definitely more to come - inclusive of 60s and 70s and music 😊 And that’s funny - some people around my age have complained that I speak too slowly haha go figure. Thanks again.

  • @MegaHello202
    @MegaHello202 9 місяців тому +2

    I love history but admittedly don’t know a lot about fashion history so this video was very interesting. Looking forward to more videos

  • @deborahborlase7100
    @deborahborlase7100 8 місяців тому

    Impressive research, thank you for this different and interesting perspective. We are always poking fun of old styles....just looking back on the 1980s is cringe-worthy for those of us who lived through it... of course all generations will have done this.

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  8 місяців тому +1

      Thanks so much for this comment! Hahaha I’ll bet - I mostly dress 60s/70s and my parents get a kick out of me 😅

  • @josevader_
    @josevader_ 8 місяців тому +1

    Amazing video ❤

  • @imbluedubbadee
    @imbluedubbadee 8 місяців тому

    "This is gonna get a little bit long"
    Cut to me watching a 4 hour video on a kids cartoon from the early 2000's that ive never even watched

  • @emmarose8760
    @emmarose8760 8 місяців тому +2

    Such a great video !! very excited for another historical fashion channel in the new year, can't wait for your next one 🫶🫶

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  8 місяців тому +1

      Oh thank you so much! 🥹🫶🏻 I’m so excited to keep going

  • @bow8651
    @bow8651 8 місяців тому

    representing a historical scene using contemporary dress is how medieval european artists would depict ceasar and the romans they thought were cool, i dont know if it was censorship in the same way as the victorians wasbut

  • @しゅうじ-w4d
    @しゅうじ-w4d 7 місяців тому

    よくわからないけど!そのとおり😊

  • @shallowwaters6690
    @shallowwaters6690 9 місяців тому +1

    Really enjoyed this! Never thought about how we think about our past shifting in this way.

  • @Kdkdleeme
    @Kdkdleeme 4 місяці тому +1

    So eloquently spoken!

    • @Kdkdleeme
      @Kdkdleeme 4 місяці тому

      Tu parles français?

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  Місяць тому

      merci bien! oui, l'ai étudié pendant environ 11 ans...je dois vraiment le pratiquer maintenant. mais j'adore le français!!

  • @pilarvellante4081
    @pilarvellante4081 9 місяців тому +2

    So awesome! Love this content

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  9 місяців тому

      Omg thank you, Pilar Vellante!

  • @TVandManga
    @TVandManga Місяць тому

    Really interesting.

  • @rockynana9412
    @rockynana9412 8 місяців тому +1

    The video is going to get a little bit long, hahah. Girlie, i would eat up, in one bite, a 6 hour video on this topic (and many more) 😅😅

  • @nat-ff4rg
    @nat-ff4rg 8 місяців тому

    PLESEPLEASELPEASEEEEE DO THAT VIDEO DEBUNKING MYTHS !!!
    btw i loved this video so much, i'm reallyreallyreallyyyy looking forward to seeing more videos like this!

  • @sykoelf
    @sykoelf 8 місяців тому

    No bc Jane Eyre is one of my fav books ever and I ALWAYS pictured the mid 1800s 😮😮😮😮

  • @Midhiel
    @Midhiel 8 місяців тому

    Very excited for another perspective in the fashion history & costube realm! This was a great video. Really amazed by the Regency Jane Eyre theory.

  • @maryhamric
    @maryhamric 8 місяців тому

    I loved this video down to the painting showing the coral beaded necklace. *chef's kiss*

  • @theginger7910
    @theginger7910 6 місяців тому

    Great work!

  • @nothingbutfleurs
    @nothingbutfleurs 8 місяців тому

    i loved this i hope you make more full length videos ❤️

  • @unelm0ija
    @unelm0ija 8 місяців тому

    Really great video for your first long form one! ❤
    The audio does have some echo/breaking when you raise your Voice and s-sounds are a bit sharp. Some things that could help without switching any equipment; filming in a smaller room, adding some more textiles/stuff around, changing The distance from The microphone, avoiding/monitoring Voice peaking 😊 Hoping to see More quality content like this from you 🤩

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  8 місяців тому

      Thank you so much! Oh yes, this was a temporary filming location and as aforementioned I had some issues with that mic 😅 all should be resolved in the next video, thankfully! So excited to keep going 😊

  • @-Reagan
    @-Reagan 8 місяців тому

    The transparent black corset over the long sleeve pirate shirt is such a good look that I know it’s going to be both cringeworthy and then be admired as iconic in future generations

    • @aliciavquinn
      @aliciavquinn  8 місяців тому

      LMAO 😭😭 some older women have already commented how much they hate it