{"id":1400,"date":"2009-01-08T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2009-01-08T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T17:38:00","slug":"ethan-gets-clothes-will-goes-wilde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2009\/01\/08\/ethan-gets-clothes-will-goes-wilde\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethan gets clothes; Will goes Wilde."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I just paid for Ethan&#8217;s clothes, so he will have a complete outfit of shirt [which I have], breeches, stockings and banyan [last three commissioned]. A <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Banyan_(clothing)\">banyan<\/a> is a loose robe-like housecoat for men, often with Chinese- or Japanese-inspired designs. Popular during the 1700s and 1800s in Europe, the banyan reflected a fascination with &quot;Oriental&quot; culture and motifs. Don&#8217;t tell me you didn&#8217;t learn something today.<\/p>\n<p>I was talking to cobroldy, who did Ethan&#8217;s outfit for me, about doing a dandy outfit for Will largely copied after the affectations of Oscar Wilde. I&#8217;m not doing it right now because I don&#8217;t have the money, but I do want to record some ideas and sources of inspiration. Will&#8217;s Wildean suit will be in shades of purple, most likely aping the style of Wilde&#8217;s suit shown in these photos:<br \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/misc\/wildeansuit.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/misc\/wildeansuit.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/misc\/wildeansuit2.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/misc\/wildeansuit2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Color possibilities and agreements are inspired by Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka in the 2005 movie. Review of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mwctoys.com\/REVIEW_020806b.htm\">action fig version<\/a> here. For an overall sense of tackiness and pattern agreement, I&#8217;m going with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mwctoys.com\/REVIEW_082508a.htm\">Hot Toys&#8217; Joker<\/a> figure not for specifics, but for a general feel. I wish I could get the Joker&#8217;s clothes&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I just paid for Ethan&#8217;s clothes, so he will have a complete outfit of shirt [which I have], breeches, stockings and banyan [last three commissioned]. A banyan is a loose robe-like housecoat for men, often with Chinese- or Japanese-inspired designs. Popular during the 1700s and 1800s in Europe, the banyan reflected a fascination with&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2009\/01\/08\/ethan-gets-clothes-will-goes-wilde\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ethan gets clothes; Will goes Wilde.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}