#so the wearer has to wear a cotton undershirt then the blouse then the stiff scarf

[thereadingmoon]

i know how new zealand culture is embedded in the locked tomb and muir even fought for it to stay in the series, but i would love to see someone draw harrow in filipiniana-style outfits. i see so many renditions of harrow in flouncy petticoats and really baroque goth outfits that are vaguely european and i love them but i keep thinking of @alamangoes' drawing of two women in filipiniana, one wearing a terno whose structured butterfly sleeved bolero shields her bare ribcage, and another wearing a dark barong whose curved spine and angled pelvis are embroidered on the back of her shirt. And then, of course, her drawing of a woman who hides her knives under her wide butterfly sleeves and imagining harrow's butterfly sleeves themselves made of bones like this caged beauty. And I can definitely see people going crazy for the layers and drama of the translucent baro't saya, with their flowing shirts resting under the beautiful and stiff shield of their panuelo.

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#the main idea behind the baro't saya and maria clara was modesty too #the blouse is made of translucent fabric made of pineapple fiber #so the wearer has to wear a cotton undershirt then the blouse then the stiff scarf #they're so elegant and ridiculously camp #i remember this one from a fashion show that was heavily bedazzled and the sleeves were as wider than the model's head #the locked tomb #tlt #gideon the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow the ninth #moonymovetheglass.txt