In principle, I agree about the trousers and longer skirts, for use in other contexts, but to be fair, it looks like the length of the skirts is about right for the period, when western European women’s skirts in reference photos seem to run pretty solidly between just below the knees to mid-calf, and women wearing trousers would have been considered fairly scandalous and would stay that way for a few years yet. So, for the specific time and place, this looks right to me.
Still, I’d gladly take an anachronism or two that could be used for early-mid 20th century pulp subject, over strict historical accuracy myself. I think I’m in a minority on that, though, and WGA probably made the right call there.
Fortunately, if you have the kits or are willing to buy them for some of the spare bits, you can source bits from some other Wargames Atlantic kits, and from the Dead Man’s Hand female gunslingers, to get a little extra mileage from the female partisans in pulp and dieselpunk settings, or later decades, or – in the case of the DMH gunslingers – a little earlier in the 20th century, thanks to the longer skirts and such; the gunslinger clothing styles are theoretically Victorian, but probably not all that period-correct and would easily pass for early 20th century pulp adventure settings.
Among the WGA kits that might be useful if you handwave a few anachronisms:
- female survivors (some weapons and several heads/hairstyles, and most of the bodies other than the tracksuit/hoodie combination might work with a little disguising of the details and suspension of disbelief);
- Cannon Fodder women (some heads/hairstyles, and the bodies can be painted up as industrial boiler-suits/coveralls for a mob of “Rosie the Riveter” factory worker types)
- the Agents set (the female agent in a suit is a bit modern and would have been scandalous in the ‘40s, but hey – trousers, and men at least have been wearing variations on that suit for a long time – and so the men’s bodies are even more useful for partisans of various eras of the 20th century and beyond….)
- the classic fantasy human Villagers set connected to the Traitors’ Toll game, believe it or not: all three of the women’s bodies in this set wear longer dresses, with two of the three dresses looking plausible enough for working-class women, servants, and the like, of the sort you’d see blending into the backgrounds as restaurant and hotel staff, maids and washer-women, and so on. Some of the heads/hairstyles are generic enough to blend into a crowd, and the aprons, improvised weapons, and other miscellaneous gear is generic enough to fit right into the early 20th century, and even further back to the Napoleonic era and beyond, and even some sci-fi possibilities as well (steampunk, post-apocalyptic, used-future), and one or two of the male bodies and heads can be useful for making farmers, beggars, priests/monks and the like in many of the same settings – seriously, this villagers set is full of nice, useful bits, for more than just classic fantasy use!
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