#1790's

[fripperiesandfobs]

Marveilleuse gown, 1796-1800

From Kerry Taylor Auctions

[vincentbriggs]

I finished these breeches last month, but only got around to getting pictures of them on me yesterday. (Pardon the horrible lighting - I finally have a wall to film in front of, but not a light for it yet. I do have a fancy pedestal though!! Got it for a very good price at a recent estate sale! When not being dramatically leaned against it's useful for holding my keys and wallet so I don't forget them.)

These had been in The Pile for about 4 years, so there are some things that aren't quite as well done as I'd do them now, and I regret the fabric choice, but I'm glad to have them done. I didn't have any black breeches, and wanted to get these finished before filming the outfits for my shirt video. (Which I'm still editing and it's taking forever.)

It's the same loosely woven black wool I used for that black & white coat I made in 2019. I don't expect it to wear very well, which is why I added so much machine topstitching, and did the button covers in a different wool.

[hauntedhorrormaven117]

The most romantic, heartstopping, breathtaking, gorgeous film ever created by mankind hit American theatre's today 5 years ago

[ripplefactor]

'Work'd by Eunice Hooper in the Ninth Year of her Age' .. And Bright Phoebus in his chariot, Marblehead, 1790's, Huntington Library Collection ..  @rickinmarblehead.

[vinceaddams]

Textiles too!

Embroidered silk waistcoat, c. 1785-90. Sold by Meg Andrews and now in the V&A Collection.

Printed cotton fragments, c. 1770-90, Cooper Hewitt Collection.

After the first manned balloon flights, ballooning became a popular obsession, especially in its homeland of France. One man wrote,

Among all our circle of friends, at all our meals, in the antechambers of our lovely women, as in the academic schools, all one hears is talk of experiments, atmospheric air, inflammable gas, flying cars, journeys in the sky.

Balloons were everywhere, especially on consumer goods. It seemed that everybody wanted images of balloons in their homes.

They adorned snuffboxes:

Watches:

and tea caddies:

Even far from France, you could find images of balloons everywhere. In Japan, a country that wouldn’t have its own manned balloon launch for almost a century, you could buy a hot-air balloon plate, manufactured in 1797:

{WHF} {Ko-Fi} {Medium}

[yeoldenews]

Yet another selection of some of the better names I've come across in Regency era newspapers recently.

[artschoolglasses]

Sampler by Rebekah S. Munro, American, 1791

From the Met Museum

[dimity-lawn]

A collection of memes I made after visiting Michilimackinac and Fort Mackinac in May, 2023.

Yes, the photo in the last meme is real. I don’t know who carved that into the wall in one of the lookout posts at Fort Mackinac, but I took the photo.

@ivory--raven

[vinceaddams]

Oooh I'd never seen that quilted one before, it's gorgeous! And it definitely looks like it was made from part of a larger garment, probably an 18th century quilted petticoat. The quilting design is huge and doesn't line up with the shape of the waistcoat at all.

(Fourth quarter of the 18th century, The Met.)

These late 18th century breeches in the Fashion Museum at Bath are another fascinating example of the same thing!

Napoleonic era men’s vests, France

Top row: 1800-1815 (1) (2) (3)

Middle Row: 1790-1810 (1), 1795-1805 (2) (3)

Bottom Row: 1805-10 (1), 1800s (2) (3)

Bayerisches Nationalmuseum

[fripperiesandfobs]

Waistcoat, 1795-1800

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art

[vincentbriggs]

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.

[breezingby]

Founded 234 Years ago, by Alexander Hamilton.

Alexander Hamilton was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 during George Washington's presidency. Born out of wedlock in Charlestown, Nevis, Hamilton was orphaned as a child and taken in by a prosperous merchant.

Died: July 12, 1804 (age 47 years), Greenwich Village, New York, NY

[vinceaddams]

I see some people are tagging this with #embroidery, but it isn't, it's brocade! The way you can tell is that the floats (the long bits of thread on the surface) in the woven motifs are all perfectly lined up in one direction, whereas if they were embroidered they would go in a lot of different directions depending on which part of which little shape they were in.

If you zoom in you can also see that the edges also have a sort of pixelated look to them, with some long straight edges on some of the gentler curves, and if they had been hand stitched instead of woven then the individual thread placement would look a bit more organic.

Reticule

c.1799

France

LACMA (Accession Number: M.83.281.2)

[misforgotten2]

A book you very likely don’t have on your shelf #491

Cover by Frank Frazetta -- 1970

[lady-beetl3]

Is anyone actually tired or are people just saying this so they don’t seem like the bad guy? I’m 18, still in high school, but I’m looking around to the adults and peers and no one seems as angry as I am about the current state of the country. Yes, what Elonia did was a 1930’s wannabe painter salute. Yes, we are living in a fascist oligarchy. No, the people in charge don’t care about us. No, they won’t listen to us since we don’t have money. No, these peaceful protests aren’t going to do anything because they don’t care. Does no one else see what I see? The deportations and the holding camps can so easily become concentration camps and we’ll never hear about it. We’re already being censored and all of our media is controlled by the far right, violence against women is at an all time high, homophobia, racism, transphobia, and xenophobia are running rampant. So, why do I feel like I’m the only one who sees anything? If you’re mad, show it and show them. Go out and fuck something up. Stop letting the government fuck us any which way they want. We don’t have anything to lose, but the crumbs our gracious billionaire overlords have spared us. So if you’re mad, show them. Fuck it up.

[seashorepics]

8th January

Here are some notable historical events that occurred on January 8: Historical Events: 1642 – Galileo Galilei Passes Away: Italian physicist, astronomer, and polymath Galileo Galilei, often called the “father of modern science,” died in Arcetri, near Florence. How did Galileo Galilei die? 1790 – First State of the Union Address: President George Washington delivered the first State of the…