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Feb. 7th, 2021 07:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotI knitted a gauge swatch, and it came out right with the assigned needle and everything! Unfortunately, the ribbing at the bottom of the cardigan is supposed to be done in a needle I don't have somehow (I have so many needles!), so I'm using a slightly smaller one ... (I typed this several days ago, the back is 4" long now.)
Got in an argument with people on Twitter in the replies to a NYT post about Bridgerton/historical costuming. The original person I responded to said that the word "corset" is inappropriate in a Regency context because it inherently refers to tightlace-able Victorian undergarments, and then someone started arguing with me that "corset" wasn't in common usage until "well into the Victorian era" and that fashion historians never use "corset" for the early soft corsets. You can call anything whatever you want for your own purposes, but don't badly miscorrect me when I'm correcting someone else, okay.
Got in an argument with people on Twitter in the replies to a NYT post about Bridgerton/historical costuming. The original person I responded to said that the word "corset" is inappropriate in a Regency context because it inherently refers to tightlace-able Victorian undergarments, and then someone started arguing with me that "corset" wasn't in common usage until "well into the Victorian era" and that fashion historians never use "corset" for the early soft corsets. You can call anything whatever you want for your own purposes, but don't badly miscorrect me when I'm correcting someone else, okay.
