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Strange Choices in “The New Look”
I want to start by saying that I’m not opposed to inaccurate historical fiction. There are a lot of great things that can be done with inaccuracies in historical fiction: highlighting figures who never got their due, crossing a modern… Continue reading
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Weekly Roundup, 4/6-4/13
Greetings! Here are some offerings from the past week: Austenprose: Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë — The Ultimate Gothic Romance Wearing History: 2023 Sewing and Crafting Year in Review Jane Austen’s World: April in Jane Austen’s World Pour la Victoire:… Continue reading
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Magasin des Modes, 8e Cahier, Plate II
Two Busts of women. The first Woman, dressed in a violet satin gown, wears a cap à la Turque. This cap is composed in front with a sort of batiste turban, with very wide black and white stripes, designed… Continue reading
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Weekly Roundup! (3/30-4/5/2024)
Now that I have my entire reading list imported into my WordPress reader*, I thought it might be nice to try to post every Saturday with links to what the exceptional blogs I follow have shared over the past week.… Continue reading
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Got Henry? On the fandomification of the Tudors
The Tudor dynasty – Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I – are perhaps the most famous monarchs in British history. And it’s easy to see why! Together, these monarchs’ histories encompass a narrative in which… Continue reading
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Magasin des Modes, 8e Cahier, Plate I
Welcome, Substack followers! I’ve consolidated my older Blogger content and my more recent Substack posts onto this WordPress site, and I’ll be posting here from now on. Please excuse the bare-bones design – I’m working on bringing this up to… Continue reading
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Magasin des Modes, 7e Cahier, Plate III
PLATE III If we have hardly showed anything but men and women, women and men, for a long time; if we neglected to separately show different objects which are useful for the toilette or decoration, it’s that when we tried… Continue reading
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Late Georgian Hairstyles: Fewer Buns Than You'd Think
It looks like I made a Twitter thread on this back in February of 2020, and while I always intended to turn it into a blog post, I suppose it’s not surprising that I, er, forgot about it. But I’ve… Continue reading
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Magasin des Modes, 5e Cahier, Plate III
December 30, 1786 In the twelfth Book of the first Year, we showed four new Buckles, seen from the side, to mark the effect on the instep; we show three newer ones here, shown in full-face, to show the length… Continue reading
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