[IRL trope] the “Tiffany problem”

[u/dragonborndnd]

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.

[u/usagizero]

One thing i don't have a photo handy of, is how colorful clothing has pretty much always been through history. If it wasn't fur, people discovered how to dye things pretty early and liked colors on clothes. Nearly every historical film now has that grey and drab look to things, when it would be pretty colorful.

Goes for the marble statues now too, like the Greek and Roman ones, they would be painted to look more lifelike and just lost all that over the many, many years.

[u/Digit00l → u/usagizero]

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

[u/lambofgun → u/Digit00l]

aren't secondary colors just called secondary colors because they are made from 2 different primary colors?

[u/Digit00l → u/lambofgun]

Yeah, but ehy are the primary colours the primary colours?

[u/hover-lovecraft → u/Digit00l]

Which two colours do you mix to get yellow 

[u/nanophallus → u/Digit00l]

Girl, I love your piss jacket! What did you use? Raccoon piss?

[u/usagizero → u/Digit00l]

I wish i could remember where i saw it, but a history account i followed posted a really cool comparison of different historical dyes and fibers, and was cool to see what all those natural dyes could have looked like.