#in britain specifically

[dresshistorynerd]

The main reason for the change from elaborate Rococo styles to the toned down Regency styles was the French Revolution in 1789 (and the mounting discontent with the aristocracy before it), not Beau Brummell who became London socialite around 1799. Regency fashion was mainly influenced by antiquity, especially Rome, and countryside middle class fashion, because the republicans wanted to distinguish themselves from the aristocracy. Antiquity, because of militarism, nationalism and it being seen as the birth of democracy, and countryside because of Romanticism and also nationalism. The tree piece suit too comes from late 1600s, and has it's roots in Orientalism and colonialism. The Rococo men's fashion was also direct ancestor of modern men's suit. The reasons for why there was this massive change in men's fashion in late 1700s and the bigger change it's part of that was happening for couple of centuries before it are much more interesting and complex than "a guy did it". I wrote a much longer response to this thread here, where I go deeper into the reasons behind the change.

I guess it's easy to look at a problem and find a person you can blame, but it won't help us understand the problem and certainly not solve it. I think it's quite damaging to view history through individual influential people, and it leads to extremely wrong ideas about history like this.

Also Beau Brummel got in terrible debt and had to flee the country, and died in Paris, of syphilis. So there’s that.

[ummick]

"Annual pet’s from’s Mick 🤲" - july 6, 2024 📷 @.roscoelovescoco / instagram

[beesgav]

picked up the manga and wanted to do some panel redraws for fun

[liorlen]

Some illustrations I made for a module as interpretations of some passages from the Welsh poem 'Preiddeu Annwn'

[hades-least-favourite]

sometimes i forget that not only are the cast of mismag talented comedians and improvisers but also incredible actors capable of taking your little heartstrings and shredding them with a violin bow. and then i watch A Place Of Knowing

[brilliantfantasticgeronimo]

did anyone get the vibe that like, lindy calling ruby "stupid" repeatedly could also be in hindsight a bit of a thing? is that a thing post ppl think of the working class ppl of Manchester, specifically?

[blujayonthewing]

woman giving a living history talk: we really have no way of knowing what people cooked or how many meals a day people had in the iron age

me for some reason: [OVERWHELMED WITH EMOTION??]

[cloudsofunrelatedcriminalsearth]

CLOUDS OF UNRELATED CRIMINALS ATTACKING PLANET EARTH

[wizzard890]

some creative, wanting to make a King Arthur adaptation: "But how will people know it's for boys?"

his barista, trapped in this conversation: "What?"

creative: "You know, the knights and castles and magic and chivalry - I mean it's all kind of gay."

barista: "I--uh. Is it?"

creative: "Women are into that stuff, but they don't move tickets. I need to signal loud and clear that this King Arthur is butch, and that his knights are all rugged and masculine. --What's the most male time period?"

barista: "That's such a wild question."

creative: "I mean it has to be England after the Romans left, right? With all the Vikings and blue people and aqueducts and swordplay."

barista: "Isn't there still swordplay if they're all chivalric knights in the fourteenth century?"

creative: "No! No, that's gay, Rebecca, aren't you listening!"

rebecca: "Jesus."

creative: "What kind of guy is going to watch a movie about knights riding off to London when he could watch a movie about a warlord riding to Londinium?"

rebecca, pulling a quad shot with a thousand yard stare: "I honestly couldn't say."

creative, yelling into his voice memo app: "find and replace 'Merlin' with 'Taliesin'. -- God this is gonna be huge."

[candorverity]

Just finished red white and royal blue and oooooooh boy i have thoughts

[greencarnation]

Here is a plot of education resources around Palestine that you can check out if you want to know more. It's completely free and accessable, there's a whole range of books and pdfs available, it will help you to understand what's going on, the context behind it, and what you can do. Please take a look (from milochite on tiktok)

[wanderingandfound]

I need people trying to convey the seriousness of COVID to stop dismissing the flu because the flu absolutely kills people, triggers chronic illnesses, and causes brain damage.

[mariemariemaria]

The new channel 4 documentary on the miners strike is fantastic. It covers different points of view, from the striking miners, to working miners, to the women in striking communities, to the police. It also shows how the Battle of Orgreave on 18th June 1984 was planned and initiated by the police, and how the media (BBC and ITV) covered this up and showed only the police's side, while positioning them as being the victims of miners' violence (which was very minimal to non existent in reality), who simply retaliated because the "restrained...traditional British policing way" (I have to laugh) didn't work.

I also didn't know until watching this that Gareth Peirce, who represented the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six, also defended mineworkers who were victims of police brutality at Orgreave. What a woman!

[mr-ladystardust]

today I learned that in the English language they/them/theirs have been used as singular pronouns since the Middle English period (11th-15th century), which predates the usage of he/him/his, and I think that's really cool

[isoddtosay]

it is infuriating how the media portrays the situation in gaza as - either you are antisemitic or you are islamophobic - when this is the result of both concepts

[muirneach]

was reading the court booking schedule at work and was like these are some incredibly british names and then the guy walked in and he actually was british lol