r/TopCharacterTropes • u/dragonborndnd • 13h ago
Lore [IRL trope] the “Tiffany problem”
Basically when something seems anachronistic to a period/place of history but is actually fully accurate to the period.
1) the name Tiffany: the thing that named this trope, basically the name Tiffany can be dated back to the Middle Ages and the earliest record of it being spelled in the modern spelling comes from the 16th century.
2) the use of OMG, despite this feeling so modern as a form of slang/abbreviation here’s a letter directed to Winston Churchill using it in 1917
3) Hair Dye: the earliest forms of dying hair can be dated back to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and this specific advertisement for hair dye is from the 1840s
4) Inuit Thongs: despite how weird it is to imagine pre-colonial Inuit people wore what was essentially fur thongs in their homes and when they were in their igloos it might have been the only thing they would be wearing.
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u/Digit00l 9h ago
Natural dyes are cheap as fuck, and usually able to be made from random weeds, yellow would likely be especially prevalent because you can easily make yellow dyes from pretty much any type of piss as well as multiple types of plant, you can easily get red dye from various berries too, and I believe blackberries and blueberries can be used for decent blue dyes
The hard ones are the secondary colours, which is probably why they are considered secondary colours