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rongzhi · 2 years

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I have a question but I don't know if you know the answer, but it has been a curiosity with me for ages and hopefully you know some sources I can be pointed to instead! Anyway! In traditional wear we usually see that people used to wear quite a bit of layers, especially those of higher ranking. But that to me seems like a pain to dress into every day, especially if you are a minister at the imperial palace and need to go to the morning gathering. And not to mention the long hair.

How long do they generally take to dress? Are the layers we see in dramas maybe exaggerated because it is pretty, but only meant for fancy occasions? I know that the hair isn't redone every day, but as someone with formerly long hair the thought of just having to brush it every day makes me wanna scream.

Currently I'm imagining people to wake up at 4am just to get dressed and be ready for the day in time, but I can't imagine that to be right??? Or at least, I hope for them I'm not right.

A hanfu account might have a better answer for you, but I imagine it actually does not take that long.

Not all historical dramas depict accurate hanfu for the time period that they take place in, but for the most part they've usually got the right idea when it comes to how hanfu in general is layered. Another thing is that dramas usually depict richer characters, or characters who later become wealthy so that might be a reason they always look like they're wearing a lot.

Obviously, for nobility or rich women who have their hair put up in ornate styles, they might take a little longer in the day to get ready but I personally feel like this isn't really that different from the length of time it takes some modern women to get ready in the morning. In high school, I would roll out of bed every morning at 7:00am to leave the house at 7:30-7:40 while my sister would wake up at 6:30. I also knew one girl who would wake up at 5:30am to get ready each day (my school began at 8:00am). 🤷🏻‍♂️

In terms of time to get dressed, the luxurious quality of the clothing might not necessarily have that much effect on how long it takes to get dressed. Yes, a peasant might just have 2 or 3 layers compared to the 3+ including accessories and other things of a rich person, but at the heart of it, it's just putting on clothes. There wasn't any sort of corseting or anything that would've taken a long time to put on (that I know of).

Here's an example of Song Dynasty style summer clothes for a wealthier woman. Even though the video is sped up, you can see that there are just 4 layers that all go on with relative ease. I'd guess that for an able-bodied person who is used to dressing like this, it would probably only take 5 or so minutes.

Ministers at court also just wore normal clothes under an outer uniform + hat, so I don't think this would take extra time to put on. Rich people today dress up everyday, or to some degree, especially if they are going out and about and I imagine that this was true back in the day as well.

As for hair, I don't really know. I think maybe one this is that in dramas, most of the hair, especially for men, is styled wigs with a lot of product to keep everything in place, which might give the illusion that it takes a lot of work to style each day. Common sense tells me that it was probably unlikely that every single person back then was such a perfectionist about their styling, especially more common folk.

As for brushing hair time....lol.... I have hair to my waist and I usually have it braided or twisted up everyday, which actually (imo) reduces the need for brushing. I have like one comb which I can't remember the last time I actually used. I guess it would depend on the person??

#answered ask #mareaderinsertfanfiction #hanfu #text #long post #you send me an ask i will send you an essay every single time lolol #sidenote on the hair is that MY main question about hair in dramas is: how spidery do those floors look #black hair falling everywhere..... if i don't vacuum often my carpet looks like jackson pollock just swung through on a rope

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howtotrainyouragents · 4 years

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ML Group Chat Headcanons

It is canon that the entire class (including Lila, Chloe, and Sabrina who don’t usually hang out with the others) are all in a group chat + Luka + Kagami + Marc, and since that is the greatest gift ML could possibly have ever given me, here all my headcanons. This is so long and I do not even care.

It’s definitely that one group chat that has like fifty messages every half hour. It’s so long and there’s a minimum of five different conversations happening at once that Max programmed Markov to deliver up-to-date developments and highlights whenever someone says, “Wait, what did I miss on the group text?”

Yes, even when everyone is in school, there’s still fifty messages every half hour. Chloe and Alya are skilled at texting without looking at their phones, but Juleka is the true champ of secretive texting and she just spends the day making really funny commentary about school and Luka’s reading them under his desk and trying hard not to die laughing in his class

At least 50% is solely memes, courtesy of Kim, Alix, Adrien, and Nino. They once had a meme off and everyone else simultaneously left the group chat.

25% is Marc and Nathaniel’s comics, Marinette’s designs, Luka’s music, Nino’s music and other art projects being shared with something along the lines of “I don’t think this is any good, but I thought you guys might like it.” And then everyone else loses their minds over it because how are their friends so talented??

The group chat is a dream for Adrien and Kagami because they aren’t allowed to hang out with friends, so they make up for it over text. They’re the first to respond to every single message. It’s a bit of a competition now

Marinette: I don’t know, what do you guys think about this design?

*Cue Kagami and Adrien dropping everything in the middle of fencing and wrestling each other to get to their phone first and tell her how much they love it and adore her work and creativity and she shouldn’t doubt herself because she’s amazing and wonderful-*

Alya: I think it’s great girl :)

Marinette was the one who added Kagami to the group chat (and the separate girl gang group chat).

Kagami’s first text: What’s everyone’s blood type?

Marinette: OMFG lolol

Bonus: Kim now lowkey thinks Kagami is a vampire because he’s never seen her outside and who else would ask that kind of question OBVIOUSLY-

Rose’s good morning and good night texts are like Lin Manuel Miranda’s tweets but add in 100+ gifs of unicorns and rainbows and hearts

Chloe doesn’t like to interact in the group chat much because she’s better than all of them. But she spends hours every night scrolling and catching up on everything like it’s a bedtime story.

Lila’s lies know no bounds in the text chain, but neither does Marinette’s emojii vocabulary. For every Lila text, there’s a Marinette eye-rolling, barfing, angry, or head-exploding emoji to follow

Mylene is always sharing links about environmentalism and creating polls on when everyone’s free to clean litter or plant trees. She keeps the receipts too on who responded and then bailed, and now Nino, Luka, Marinette and Sabrina owe her a Saturday Clean Up.

A lot of times, Marinette stumbles home in the dead of the night after an akuma attack, watches a Chat Noir meme video, and sends it to the group only to get a response from Adrien seconds later.

Marinette: Adrien, what are you doing up so late?

Adrien: Uhhhh, homework! You?

Marinette: Uh, yeah, me too! What’d you get for #7?

And then they’re both internally crying as they have to get out their physics homework now

Ivan invited everyone to a death metal concert, and only Nathaniel and Marc responded. Now they’re all best friends and share links to bands to try and get everyone else on board.

The girl gang try to get Marinette and Adrien together via text because somehow Marinette still stutters around him even over text.

Whenever Adrien compliments Marinette, it’s followed by side-eye emojis and the girls responding, “Hmm, interesting. Anything you want to say to that, Marinette?”

Marinette in the girl group chat: You know that thing you guys keep doing? STOP.

Alix back in the main chat: Hmm, interesting. Anything you want to add, Luka?

That being said, Marinette just about dies every time Adrien and Luka reply to her messages or compliment her stuff and Tikki has to fan her exasperatedly

At least like once a day, there’s the usual:

“Wait, we had homework??” (Nino)

“Hey, does anyone have a spare-” “Oh, I got it!” (Sabrina)

“Has anyone seen Marinette?” (Alya)

Of course with so many people there’s bound to be the occasional disagreement. Max is busy computing the statistics: “That was a 67% effective burn.” “That joke was calculated to be 82% unfunny” “There’s a 93% chance that they won’t forget about it by tomorrow.” “NOT HELPING, MAX.”

Alya is always trying to analyze superhero stuff, but since that’s all she and everyone else in Paris talks about, the kids are super over it.

Alya: Who do you think is Ladybug?

Everyone sends in pictures and videos of Ms. Bustier, Roger the cop, that random pigeon, their shoe, the anime dvd cover, a random supermodel, Marinette tripping into a trash can all with the caption: “This is Ladybug.”

But it’s Kim who almost causes a nuclear war after asking “Who’s better, Ladybug or Chat Noir.”

LADYBUG OFC (Alya, Chloe, Marc, Luka, Adrien)

CHAT NOIR DUH (Lila, Sabrina, Kagami, Nino)

The argument lasts almost 24 hours.

It finally ends with a 4-AM, high-after-an-akuma-attack five paragraph essay (complete with citations from the Ladyblog and a bibliography) from Marinette starting with the phrase “Excuse me?!? If you think for one second that Chat Noir is not the best-” and ends with “I never believed in a world where I would agree with Lila, but here we are. Chat Noir is the best and that is a fact. In conclusion: I said what I said.”

Now everyone thinks Marinette has a crush on Chat Noir.

Alya: I have to screenshot this to the Ladyblog

Marinette: NO. What if he sees it??

Adrien already saw it first thing in the morning. It was the best text he ever received

Then a few days later, Kim goes, “Who do you think is the best superhero after Ladybug and Chat Noir?”

Marinette nearly spits out her tea laughing as all hell breaks loose and the app closes due to an overload of people typing at once.

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