Vasi enjoying a beautiful spring day while wearing her normal everyday attire.
Vasi Birchwood is an Irish/Russian YouTuber who makes content about history, sewing, and music. She lives in Britain.You can find her history/sewing channel here
and her music channel here. As of 2023, she has over 80,000 subscribers.
Compare Karolina Żebrowska and Bernadette Banner.
Tropes included in Vasi's videos include:
- Author Vocabulary Calendar: Invoked with a video on old words that should be brought back.
- Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: Vasi's entire wardrobe consists of this (mostly Georgian and Victorian fashion, but some Medieval, Regency, Edwardian, and Volga Tatar attire as well), all of which is handmade.
- Born in the Wrong Century: Vasi never wears any fashion from after World War I.
- Costume Porn: Half of Vasi's history/sewing channel is dedicated to this trope.
- Crossover: With Karolina Żebrowska in a video on vintage vs historical fashion.
- Foreign Culture Fetish: Downplayed. Vasi is mixed Irish/Volga Tatar, and is as interested in the culture and customs of the latter (due to her heritage) as she is in pre-WWI western dress.
- Gorgeous Period Dress: Vasi always dresses in these, usually from (but not limited to) the Georgian or Victorian eras.
- Green Aesop: Vasi hates modern fast fashion because it is wasteful and wears out too easily, so she encourages her viewers to hand-make their own clothes instead.
- Interfaith Smoothie: Vasi self-identifies as a Buddhist because that's what her Spiritual-but-not-religious father took her to as a kid, but Vasi herself has no firm theological beliefs, and dabbles in the pre-Islamic folk religion of the Volga Tatars (Tengrism) as part of her studying her heritage.
- Mono no Aware: One of Vasi's few stated philosophical/theological positions is that she doesn't believe in not using the finest things, because of how life is transient.
- Never a Self-Made Woman: Averted. Vasi came from nothing to be a YouTube personality with over 80,000 subscribers.
- Of Corset Hurts: Averted and discussed. Vasi has made a video about debunking corset myths, a video about how even pregnant women wore corsets, a video of herself singing while wearing a corset, and a video about why actresses complain about corsets when women historically didn't have any issues with them.
- Of Corsets Sexy: Vasi wore a corset every day for at least five years straight (though she hasn't made any herself), and only stopped wearing corsets on a daily basis because she didn't want her fashion to be limited by what is worn with stays.
- Rags to Riches: Vasi's origin story.
- Sleepy Depressive: Vasi mentioned that she sometimes has Burnout episodes.
