There is so much to work with, though! You will tend to find more of a focus on variety in women's fashion, but there is still quite a lot of menswear to ogle too. I suppose it's just a matter of searching out ideas and inspiration in the rights corners. Here are a few suggestions:

Old Clothing Catalogues -

Collections from Sears-Roebuck and other popular clothing retailers are pretty easy to find compiled into relatively inexpensive books, or just floating online.

A fair bit of it is in the public domain now.

--Here's an entire 1922 catalogue of stuff to flip through.

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Contemporary Artwork -

Some phenomenal illustrators were working in this field amidst the "Golden Age of Illustration" and featured prominently on the covers of magazines and on the ads inside. There was a lot of emphasis on fashion.

Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post are a couple of the more prominent and easily searchable resources. The costuming on the cover art always has a lot of personality.

There's Rockwell, of course, and it's almost impossible to go wrong with J. C. Leyendecker. He's probably best known for his Arrow Collar ad art, but even his sock ads are like…

There were numerous other amazing and influential illustrators working at the time too. Here's a list of some of them. Here's a bonus Henry Raleigh featuring some of his fabulously-dressed people.

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Blogs and Articles -

There are so many of them! If you want historical accuracy, be wary of write-ups pulling all of their references from film and television. There's nothing wrong with using those for inspiration if you aren't too concerned with historicity, but there are some pretty comprehensive and well-researched things out there with more of an eye on actual fashion history too:

--Gentleman's Gazette - What Men Really Wore in the 1920s

--The Fashionisto - 1920s Men's Fashion

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Digital Collections -

There are numerous digital historic image collections stemming from universities, museums, libraries, and the government that are free to peruse too.

--The Metropolitan Museum has a searchable catalog of exhibits that includes fashion and photos

--Here's some things from the New York Public Library

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Photos at Large -

If you aren't sure where to start, image searching for any of Hollywood's early celebrities will typically turn up a bevy of production stills and promotional photography featuring a variety of fashions. Here's a random Getty images search for Harold Lloyd. A lot of standard 3 piece suits, but a lot of stuff with added character too.

Photography was generally quite accessible by the 1920s, though, and you can find a lot of authentic photos of people from all walks of life, out in the wild wearing all sorts of clothes.

This is by no means the limit to the resources available, but hopefully it'll provide some leaping-off points for designing looks for your characters!

In a pinch (and since swimming in the river may just add to your life's problems), at the sink in the utility room behind the bar. Maybe an unattended garden hose here or there.

Mostly, though, Nina lets him use the indoor plumbing at her house. As long as she's grudgingly doing his laundry, she might as well have a momentarily deterged nephew to hand the clothing back to.

Streamily should be sending you email updates as the different steps involved in delivering your order are completed - when the print has been signed and returned, when it has shipped out to you, etc. If you aren't getting those emails, you can still find that status information on the web site if you sign in and look up your order. Everything I had in my queue has been signed and returned to Streamily at this point. I believe the same is the case for all of the cast who did signings in May. It does look like some of the orders have started arriving at their destinations this week, but there are still probably a lot that haven't yet!

If you aren't seeing any progress on an order you made back in April, you can submit an ask to me here with your order info (I'll keep it private) and I'll check in with Streamily about it.

One of the loveliest things about being an artist and having the privilege to share work you've loved and labored over with an audience of any sort, is watching how it sometimes incidentally fans the flames of someone else's creative impulses.

As long as it's a good-faith bid to explore your ideas, and the boundary between canon and non-canon material is understood, I don't find it disrespectful at all! Really, I'm honored, and I hope you'll have fun with it.

Lackadaisy Essentials art books...

...are finally in the warehouse! Kickstarter backers, you should begin receiving your books this month.  Meanwhile, Iron Circus is selling a very limited number of extra books. These will come with a signed bookplate, and will ship immediately after the Kickstarter backer books are fulfilled. (Likely in July.)

Find them in the Iron Circus Shop here!

I believe we’re at about 100 left as I type this. The Essentials is a large hardcover book, clothbound with a gold foil title and dust jacket. It contains ~140 pages of character art spreads and bios, mini-comics, tutorials and full color illustrations! -----------------------------------------

**Note: This is the best chance to get the book as a solo item. If you’re wanting to get all of the new Lackadaisy hardcover books (Volume 1, Volume 2 and Essentials), I suggest waiting for the BackerKit campaign in July. They’ll be available as a set.

Lackadaisy Rhapsody ~

The Official LACKADAISY Pilot Soundtrack is now up on YouTube, accompanied by animations of the Lackadaisy Speakeasy house band!

Watch it here!

Got a little animated, musical treat coming up today! Premieres 3:30pm PDT / 6:30pm PDT!

Watch it here!

Many of the characters inherited their first names from actual cats I've known or had as a family pet when I was a kid.

Aside from that, there's no real etymological science to it. It's mostly a matter of mental association between phonemes and personality, I suppose. For instance, the sound of 'Mordecai' makes me think of words with gravity, like mordant and mortified, or the French morte. Simultaneously, I like how thinking of him as a Mordy takes the edge off entirely (to his chagrin).

Sometimes I like a little irony, like the winning accomplishment implied in 'Viktor', the innocuousness of 'Freckle', or the delicateness of 'Gracie'. I like names that have a memorable rhythm too. Often this includes alliterative or assonant first-last names.

Sort of like clothes shopping, I try on some different things until something just fits and feels right.

It's not a direct correlation, but it's somewhat related in that 'pointy-stabby' is part of the overall shape language of her character design.

As someone with a very prominent thespian streak, I'd say yes, he'd be very enthusiastic about the performative and creative nature of roleplaying. Others have pointed out that he has chaotic bard written all over him.

It'd probably be, uh, vexatious having someone that verbose and impulsive in your party, though. Or reliably fastened to his seat at your gaming table, for that matter. I suppose the trick would be keeping him contained until some unmitigated destruction is called for.

I don't know. Maybe distract him with a juice box and some goldfish crackers in the meantime...

Thank you! Glad to know that!

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