#I once made an epaulette for myself out of some braid und buttons und foam und fake coins on a bracelet und selotape...

[blackcatanna]

Looking up Napoleonic-war-era uniforms for Research Purposes (regency era visual novel) and I now understand why so many war fanboys are obsessed with them. I've always been a slut for epaulettes so I should have seen this coming but my brain wasn't prepared for the sexiness of all of the braid and velvet and rich colours and awesome boots...

Like, I can handle the slightly odd-looking technical illustrations and period drawings because they are often extremely unsexy and everyone's face is bright red... but as soon as I see a nice portrait or a vaguely not-ugly modern man or woman dressed in these clothes, my brain just short circuits:

*Notices epaulettes* OwO what's this? *nuzzles on epaulettes* UwU