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  • bananafungus
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    1 year ago

    The most unrealistic thing for me in time travel shows and movies isn’t the time travel itself, but the fact that a lot of the time the characters seem chill wearing the period appropriate clothing. Send me back and I’d be spending a hell of a lot of time thinking how utterly stupid I look, I mean it’d be fun, but I wouldn’t be like ok guess this it for me now as put on a pair of 70s platform shoes or some 18th century breeches and stockings.

    • Thornburywitch
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      1 year ago

      I think you’d find that you’d adapt very quickly. If everyone else is wearing the sameish clothes you’d get used to it very quickly. The clothes wouldn’t be a fancy costume, or stupid, they’d be normal fashion. Speaking from doing amateur theatre a bit in the past - clothes I wouldn’t be caught dead in out in the street feel quite OK if everyone else is wearing similar. And I survived the 70s platform shoes back when they were normal fashion. Don’t miss them - horrible to walk in but you had to wear them or be square.

    • RosaliePreistley
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      1 year ago

      I still enjoy 70s clothes. I wouldn’t want to time travel back there though.