Styling and reserch for accuracy
Thins chapter was all about doing accurate reserch to make sure that the thing that you have done is period accurate. As a costume designer, i feel like this is a lot more important than one chapter of a book is able to convey. You can make something, and it can look fantastically great but it fete world is in the past and the parts of the illustration are not all in the same time, the image will not work together and someone will know. Especilly if it has to do with anything military, someone will know if you got it wrong. You must set out to carefully and deliberately reserch adn be sure that your sources are dependable and accurate if you want to create something that is visually strong and conveying the time and place that you want. The author talks about how the internal logic must all fit together and convey what you want.
I take a lot of issue with the authors reserch methods that seem almost lazy at some points. The most glaring example to me was his piece “wail” about the swing dancing hay day. He talks about how he spent a lot of time looking at different suits and ties and chose to mesh them all together which is an excellent way to get the concept across, but when it came to the woman, he says he just compleatly made up what she was wearing. This is problematic because he isin’t Even following his own reserch rules to make an image mesh, but he’s presenting it in a way like he did. As he said before, if you get one thing wrong, someone will know. Because i know a lot about period fashion, I can see that it is incorrect and I think that if he had of taken the time to create an outfit for the woman that was as well thought out and reserched as the mans the piece would have been stronger.
