And with platforms like Glance AI , personal styling has evolved into something truly empowering
And the puff sleeves of the 1530s line up more directly with their audience's modern mental image of "pretty, pretty princesses." To my 21st century eye, some historically accurate Italian Renaissance fashions look simply ridiculous, like cod pieces (comically enlarged jock straps worn on the outside, sometimes used as coin purses), balzos (1530s ladies' turban thingies made of false hair, jewels, fabric, stuffing, broken dreams due to strict gender roles, and possibly helium), and zibellinis (what looks like a dead ferret with a bejeweled face attached on the end of a long decorative belt called a girdle, intended to distract fleas who weren't buying it, and apparently to creep people out in future generations)
I had ordered something else off an Etsy seller before this, and had to return, because quality was not there AT ALL
For example, when I worked in corporate, I actually wore shift dresses a lot to work prior to announcing I was pregnant when I was trying to hide my baby belly