Onea Realia

Decades Lookbook - The 1920’s

I have embarked on a 20th Century Decades Lookbook series and next up is the 1920’s as requested by @sarkana-sims​.

1920’s fashion centered around the revolution of freedom in both clothing and morals. People broke out of Victorian-era prim and proper styles and into more casual wear. Clothing was comfortable yet showed off an entirely new and outrageous use of color and decoration.

A few fun facts I learned while creating these looks:

Many people associate fishnet tights and dark eyeshadow with the 1920’s (🙋) In fact, the only women who wore fishnets were showgirls (not your run-of-the-mill flappers) and dark eyeshadow was only worn by stars filming movies because it showed up better on camera (no color pictures yet!) 

I wanted to put facial hair on my masculine sim, but I found out that wearing facial hair in the 20’s was a sign that you were hiding something (!!) such as old scars from a smallpox outbreak.

(Thanks VintageDancer for making researching a breeze)

I based (and named) a sim after Josephine Baker. If you are unfamiliar with her, here are four words that ought to peak your interest: singer, siren, activist, spy.

DOWNLOAD:

You can find these sims on the gallery under Origin ID: eregister or you can download the tray files here (mediafire, no ads.) You will still need to download all the CC for your sims to look like mine.

Click here for CC links and enjoy!

Other Decade Lookbooks:

1980’s

1990’s

Hot off the presses— the release date for Return of the Thief is being pushed back to summer 2020.

Writing a book—particularly a highly-anticipated ending to an already spectacular series—can be stressful, convoluted, isolating work. Let’s all show our favorite Master of Foolhardy Plans all the love and gratitude we have for her and the world and characters she’s given us. Thank you, @meganwhalenturner, for your years of hard work, and for the magic of The Queen’s Thief!

“I was going to say you look like a polecat when you smile like that.”

“Do I? You look a little vulpine yourself.”

“Yes, I suppose so.”

-The Queen of Attolia, Megan Whalen Turner

Gen, horrified: There MUST be another way, I’m going to figure it out.

*Six hours later*

Sculpture of Episteme, symbolizing Science, at the Celsus Library in Ephesus, Anatolia. The third largest library in the ancient world, it was built in honor of a Roman Senator and completed between 114-117 AD. It had the capacity to hold 12,000 scrolls.

The Vale of Lorton, Cumbria, England

“The queen!” someone shouted in alarm, and the king erupted like a wild animal caught in a snare.

He tried to sit up, and the men around him held him down. He struggled. Someone sensible used both hands to pin the hook, with its knife-edge, to the bed. Someone less sensible tried to consolidate his grip on the king’s other arm and staggered back, holding his face.

“My stitches, my stitches!” the physician yelled.

“Your Majesty, Your Majesty!”

“Damn your stitches!” he snarled. “Let me up.”

With one hand free the king was forcing himself to a sitting position, but more people were pushing him back down, all of them shouting. Someone fell back from the end of the bed, kicked solidly. The doctor cried out again, all his work going to waste.

Costis saw no good to be had by involving himself in the melee. He watched as Ornon stepped forward, seized a man efficiently by the hair, and pulled him sharply backward. The man sat down hard, and Ornon stepped into the space he had left by the king’s bed.

Bonus:

He splayed his hand across the king’s face and slammed his head back hard against the pillow. Keeping his hand planted on the king’s face, he leaned over and roared into his ear, “The queen is fine!”

(via bookeworm94)

Eugenides, probably.

(via incorrectqueensthiefquotes)