Woman’s waistcoat ca. 1785

From Kerry Taylor Auctions

These yellow silk breeches were technically my last project of 2022, but as soon as I finished them I realized I'd made the fall a couple centimetres too high and I needed to shorten it and redo the buttonholes on the corners.

It was an easy alteration that only took a few hours, so naturally I put it off for 6 months.

I still need to make a couple of minor changes to my pattern to make it more accurate to late 18th century breeches, but I changed some stuff before sewing this version up, so it's much closer than it was before.

A "those damn youths and their language!" passage I thought was so funny I had to record it.

I also like the use of the word "correctest", which I don't think I've ever seen anywhere, but which apparently was quite common in the 18th century and pretty much dead by 1920.

Footnote from The Temple of Folly, in Four Cantos By Theophilus Swift, 1787.

(Which I have not read most of. I first came across this over a year ago and can't remember what I was even looking for, and couldn't remember the name of the publication, but found it again immediately by searching for "elegant highwayman" in google books.)

(I got "been always" switched around in my recording, oops, because I'm much more used to "always been".)

Transcript:

"No poor word seems to have been more tortured from its original meaning, than this of Elegance. Even some of our correctest writers have not been always sufficiently accurate in the use they have made of it. We have Elegant Pastry-cooks, Elegant Men-milliners, Elegant Hair-dressers, Elegant Footmen, Elegant Fiddlers, Elegant Eunuchs, Elegant Tooth-drawers.  I lately heard a lady say, she had been delivered of her first son by an Elegant Man-midwife; and another lady observed, she had been delivered of her last guinea by an Elegant Highwayman. Such Elegant company are doubtless entitled to respect, yet are not perhaps more respectable than the following Elegant company of phrases; vis. “Elegant Stage-Coaches,” for travellers; “Elegant Air-Balloons,” for philosophers; “Elegant Lap-dogs,” for old maids; and “Elegant Opportunities,” for young ones. In short, every thing has lately become elegant which administers either to pleasure or convenience. Coxcombs of both sexes should, however, be told that Elegance is a word which more directly belongs to works of literature; and that, that composition which abounds most with a beautiful simplicity, and justness of sentiment and expression, is more immediately dominated Elegant."

Circa 1780's Aquamarine and Diamond Ear Pendants

Source: fd-gallery.com

SOMETHING EVEN WEIRDER ABOUT ALISTAIR CRUMP LOOKING VICTORIAN WHILE MEANT TO BE DEAD FOR A WHILE ALREADY BY THE TIME THE MANSION IS DISCOVERED IN THE LATE 1780'S

NOT ONLY THE PORTRAITS OF HIS VICTIMS AT ONE OF HIS BALLS LOOK LIKE THEY ARE DRESSED 19TH CENTURY AS WELL AND DRAWN IN THE STYLE OF THAT TIME TOO

THERE WAS A PHOTOGRAPH OF CHILD HIM AND HIS FATHER (FATHER, AND MOTHER AT THAT BOTH DRESSED LIKE 19TH CENTURY ONCE AGAIN) WHILE PHOTOGRAPHY WAS NOT INVENTED YET IN 18TH CENTURY

THE HELL MOVIE ?

HOW DOES HE TIME TRAVEL ?

DID GRACEY SUMMON THROUGH TIME AND SPACE ? NO BECAUSE THE MANSION WAS ALREADY THERE IMPLIED SUMMONED BY DEAD CRUMP HIMSELF AS A LURE

SO ***HOW***

Painting by French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard titled: "The Girl with the Marmot", 1780

From the Trial Account of John Rawlins and Benjamin Egars for Conspiracy, 22nd October 1788. (Old Bailey Reference Number: t17881022-85) *

*Although the sentence shared by Brothers Dunnikin, Doorkeeper, Watchtower, and Plasterer comes from the sentence passed on Joyce Hodgkis in 1714 for the murder of her husband.

saw a loooot of guys milling around in Weather wearing 18th century greatcoats spats and queues . all muddy, many with weapons on them. may have to revisit klingon historic fashion

Was just walking round my house when I found two books of the works of Virgil, written in Latin, from 1856

Unfortunately, I do not know Latin so im gonna have to wait til I know it to read them

It’s the 1780s

Top:  1780-1783 Anna Teofila Potocka by Marcello Bacciarelli (The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw). From tumblr.com/blog/view/sims4rococo76/675282695253884928 2048X2689 @72 1.3Mj.

Second row left:  1780s Calendar art for February. From tumblr.com/blog/view/sims4rococo76/675282695253884928 750X1063 @72 321kj.

Second row right:  Calendar art for April. From tumblr.com/blog/view/antiquelaceartist 750X1063 @72 304kj.

Third row:  ca. 1785 Fashion Plate (September) by Robert Dighton (V&A). From tumblr.com/blog/view/silverfoxstole 1916X2500 @72 1.2Mj.

Fourth row:  ca. 1785 The Saithwaite Family by Francis Wheatley (Metropolitan Museum of Art). From their Web site 3790X3005 @150 2.9Mj.

Fifth row left:  1785 Maria J. Hoos by Nicolas Joseph Delin (Museum De Lakenhal - Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands). From tumblr.com/blog/view/andrayblue 2048X2256 @72 989kj.

Fifth row right:  ca. 1787 The Mockery by Louis-Léopold Boilly (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art - Hartford, Connecticut, USA). From tumblr.com/blog/view/history-of-fashion 1273X1538 @72 626kj. Mildly cropped.

Bottom:  1787 A Milliners Shop by S. F. Fores. From sfcdyer.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/a-milliners-shop-in-1787/ 1781X1400 @400 891kj. The woman in the center wearing a yellow dress is supposed to be Queen Charlotte.

Robe à l’anglaise ca. 1785

From the Museum of Vancouver

I think I spied a picture of you in Jack Rackam’s the Rise of Prussia video at the 13:37 mark?? :) If so, I enjoyed seeing you in one of my favorite YouTube creator’s videos.

Huh.

Yup, that's definitely me in my c. 1790 black and white coat, in one of the pictures from this post. Dunno why it's so grainy.

*kicks feet and twirls hair* Does Esme have a Regency/Napoleonic Wars era verse? (I checked your doc but didn't see one!)

here's where i disclose that i am the problem child of the boat media fandom, and i'm not super familiar with regency/napoleonic era stuff 😳 that said: I do have a working regency verse with @norringtxn that's not on the doc yet, more inspired by bridger.ton & other social-season-y things. i'm also more than willing to fudge some stuff around with any other verses to fit alt timelines <3

English is such a bullshit language

My problem with shows and movies set in modern time is that if i wanted to see modern time i’d look out the window. i have the blinds shut. I do not want to see. Show me a medieval castle.

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