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[javierfashionbazar]

BRUMMEL SPORT SOLUCIONA UN COMPROMISO DE NAVIDAD

[enought-ismytimetoshine]

Wainscoting Bedroom

Minimalist master wainscoting bedroom photo

[beyondthefold]

SEBASTIAN STAN as JOSH Ricki and the Flash (2015) | dir. Jonathan Demme

[deepinthelight]

Sebastian Stan and his characters

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 57: 19th Century

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[crushedbyatree]

Mats are you okay?

[manufavs]

Brummels 👨🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏻🫂🥺

[kindercelery]

Sigma sigma boy sigma boy sigma sigma boy

[beansontoastttt]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @kindercelery !!!!!

SORRY IF IT LOOKS WEIRD BTW

[costumeloverz71]

Lady Patricia (Elizabeth Taylor) Blue cape.. Beau Brummel (1954).. Costume Elizabeth Haffende.

[vainika19]

[chocolatepot]

I have DISCOURSEY THOUGHTS on "cozy", and specifically on that big post that was going around a few days ago, mainly that so much of what I see people say about the cozy genre/mood/tone seems more a response to vibey posts about coziness on social media than actual books/games.

That's in large part because I realized that that that post going on and on about stakes and tension was actually in response to Swordcrossed, which has "high heat, low stakes" on the cover, and that based on that context, I don't think the people having the discussion ... had actually read it? Because the thing is, yes, it says "low stakes", but the story has stakes and tension. The personal stakes are very high for the characters: there's someone running away from consequences in disguise, a loveless arranged marriage, a family being deliberately pushed into financial ruin.

And that made me think about how many of these thinkpieces on "cozy" I've seen that only cite Legends & Lattes as an example, which, I haven't read it but from the StoryGraph reviews it sounds like it might just not be a very good book? So often the discourse seems to boil down to "people who like cozy say they want stories without really bad things happening, and you need conflict in a story, so cozy is a category for bad writing." There doesn't seem to be good-faith engagement with what people who like it are calling cozy, which is nuts to me because people who like it can't come to a consensus on what it means and what falls under the heading.

[clove-pinks]

Once again I am asking you to read fashion historian Cassidy Percoco's Twitter thread about changes in men's fashion in the 18th and 19th centuries.

It's a quick read and informative! In brief:

Men's fashion became more subdued over the course of the 18th century

Beau Brummell had nothing to do with the move away from earlier styles

I quote: "Brummell made his name by wearing the hell out of what already was considered fashionable - working within the parameters of normal dress"

Colourful men's fashion was a thing for most of the 19th century!!!! It didn't go away in the Regency period!!!!

Stop with the long-debunked "Beau Brummell ruined men's fashion" canard, I'm begging you.

I looked up this "Great Male Renunciation" concept, since I have never heard of such a thing even in books dedicated to the history of men's fashion, and surprise! It was coined by a psychologist in 1930!

One of the sources cited by Wikipedia is Nicholas Storey's book History of Men's Fashion: What the Well-dressed Man is Wearing, which I own, and it's so dull and lazy and awful that I still haven't moved it to my new apartment. The author is literally a British barrister with no academic background in dress history, who openly admits to not owning more than two fashion history books in a 2013 interview, and that checks out with what I remember about his book: his opinionated blather on what he thinks is a good man's suit, as a rich lawyer guy.

I'm not saying that you couldn't find more respectable sources to support the "Great Male Renunciation" idea, but I don't think it's very supported by the historical record. You can say a lot about changing fashions and ideas about masculinity without setting up an over-hyped and dramatic break from past styles.

[lovefrenchisbetter]

Wearing Lemaire

Photographed by Love French Is Better

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