Having modeled gowns like this, when I was young, for camera and runway, and having worn them later, for local balls and the like, trust me when I say, you would never–nevah!–wear this thing within 20 miles of the swamps. NEVAH.
I mean…it’s all of it. Set in 1891, gown is all wrong for the swamp (my skin crawls just thinking about a dress like that in a super-humid, warm environment, yuck) and the Swamp Creature is gonna rip it off you anyway, post-nuptials.
The sad thing is that if you were to replace the Bog Beast with a vampire, you’d probably have a best seller. And if, instead of a generic mail order bride, you made her an Amish mail order bride, it would be like a license to print money.
Yes Syd, you are exactly right. AT that time, a woman dressed like this would be working in a…well, let’s call it an underground Gentleman’s club, shall we?
Slavery, human trafficking, misogyny, whee!
“Ma’am? Ma’am! Please don’t go into a swamp wearing your bridal gown, we can just use a backdrop for the announcement shoot!”
Having modeled gowns like this, when I was young, for camera and runway, and having worn them later, for local balls and the like, trust me when I say, you would never–nevah!–wear this thing within 20 miles of the swamps. NEVAH.
How about if the groom was the Swamp Creature?
Even LESS likely to wear that gown.
I mean…it’s all of it. Set in 1891, gown is all wrong for the swamp (my skin crawls just thinking about a dress like that in a super-humid, warm environment, yuck) and the Swamp Creature is gonna rip it off you anyway, post-nuptials.
NOPE.
(´･(00)･｀)७
hey now, Creetch is MINE, go marry your own monster!
Germane to the discussion:
The sad thing is that if you were to replace the Bog Beast with a vampire, you’d probably have a best seller. And if, instead of a generic mail order bride, you made her an Amish mail order bride, it would be like a license to print money.
Here I am, always sabotaging my success…
There’s always book 2.
Love it!
I did!
set in 1891, in case the gown threw you off
Holy crapdoodle, 1891, when ladies of the night wore more covering their skin than that gown? Good lord.
Right? Like ma’am, no bride in 1891 would wear a gown with so little fabric.
Yes Syd, you are exactly right. AT that time, a woman dressed like this would be working in a…well, let’s call it an underground Gentleman’s club, shall we?
maybe that’s why she’s an “unlikely” bride, lol
though even a Victorian sw would not be married in her working clothes!