#late 1830s

[artschoolglasses]

Mourning Bodice, Silk Trimmed with Silk Crepe, Late 1830s

From The John Bright Collection

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Johann Wilhelm Preyer (1803-1889) "Fruit Still Life" (1833) Oil on canvas Located in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

[fauvester]

putting all my st fashion plates (so far!) together

newly inspired to keep going… perhaps bajorans next…

[starzknight]

Disney princess with a bit more accurate outfits...

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[designedandplated]

Children's outfits, circa 1830s.

Costume d'Enfans de quatre huit et douze ans.

Outfits for children four, eight, and twelve years old.

[titleleaf]

Sorry for the hilariously low res image, I’m hoping to find a better one, but can anyone with historical sewing/construction savvy help me figure out how Thomas’ braces are constructed in this scene? Iirc we see the back of this outfit and it’s two separate parallel straps, not y-back or x-backed or anything like that; I’m trying to figure out what kind of attachment point or buckle or what is happening at the point indicated with the red arrows here. It looks as if it’s related to how the strap length can be adjusted, but I can’t for the life of me figure out how. (It looks like the one piece that attaches to the front buttons via the leather tab is pulled through some kind of strap-keeper or buckle, attaching it to the back piece and leaving the “tail” of it to dangle down and presumably be hidden under a waistcoat — or is this completely off base?) Does anyone have insight into the garment pictured or how a similar construction element on real garments worked?

[ascendandt]

watched nosferatu it was good but did people Really not notice its a movie about sexual violence. ?

[notyouraryang0dd3ss]

omg so I’ve been stalking the anti swift tag and ur blog comes up a lot and I wasn’t gonna engage just cuz I don’t have much to add but THEN I asked my sister (who is a fan, I don’t think she’s a SwiftieTM but she is a fan) and I just think it’s interesting that even a fan of TS would say this about her album (this is verbatim I literally copied her text)

“it takes a few listens to get it cause they all sound the same at first especially listening at 2am when she released it”

like,,,, even her fans can admit that her music starts to sound the same!! it’s so funny to me I needed to share with someone who would care

i would be so embarrassed if i had to say that about my fave oh my goddddddd im sorry you would never get me to admit that

[daincrediblegg]

Oh yeah so anyway part 1 of the lady terror ensemble complete👍

[chiropteracupola]

just a couple of creepy 18th-century innkeepers talking shop!

[featuring @borisyvain's lazarus mcclure and my own james webster]

[clove-pinks]

Le mari à la ville et la femme à la campagne, by Paul Gavarni (Yale University Art Gallery)

[robinsnest2111]

I can suspend my disbelief as much as I like when it comes to literally anything in fanfic

BUT I draw the line at a german gentleman from 1838 pulling down the ZIPPER of his JEANS

[lunarvalleysbetterplanet]

my thoughts on 'I hate it here' and the "backlash" against those particular lyrics:

My friends used to play a game where We would pick a decade We wished we could live in instead of this I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists And getting married off for the highest bid Everyone would look down 'cause it wasn't fun now Seems like it was never even fun back then Nostalgia is a mind's trick If I'd been there, I'd hate it It was freezing in the palace

without all the racists and getting married off for the highest bid ie. she recognizes it was a shit time to live. the 1830's was the romantic era, the year Emily Dickinson was born and the book secret gardens starts in the 1830's as well. all of those facts matter in context with the rest of the song. it's about getting lost in a fantasy because things are terrible irl. romanticising your life and trying to believe everything is okay.

Her saying without all the racists is a nod to being young and immature but still recognizing that hey, things were bad then. it's not downplaying slavery or the other host of issues from that time. i am pretty sure if t.s. had managed to write about every single bad thing going on in 1830 people would just give her shit for that too. and the whole point is that she ruined the game by bringing up that things would be awful. nostalgia is a mind's trick. they're all caught up on the romanticism of the 'good' and she knows it.

she says the game wasn't even fun while she was playing it.

i remember how popular quizzes like 'what decade are you' used to be. or how many times i've heard someone say "i totally belonged in the 70's". It's clueless and tone deaf to the way real life was in the past, but that is the point.

by all means dislike t.s. but at least consider that this is false outrage. the entire lyrics are below:

[Verse 1] Quick, quick, tell me something awful Like you are a poet trapped inside the body of a finance guy Tell me all your secrets, all you'll ever be is My eternal consolation prize You see, I was a debutante in another life, but Now I seem to be scared to go outside If comfort is a construct, I don't believe in good luck Now that I know what's what [Chorus] I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind People need a key to get to, the only one is mine I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears I'm there most of the year 'cause I hate it here I hate it here [Verse 2] My friends used to play a game where We would pick a decade We wished we could live in instead of this I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists And getting married off for the highest bid Everyone would look down 'cause it wasn't fun now Seems like it was never even fun back then Nostalgia is a mind's trick If I'd been there, I'd hate it It was freezing in the palace [Chorus] I hate it here so I will go to lunar valleys in my mind When they found a better planet, only the gentle survived I dreamed about it in the dark, the night I felt like I might die No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears I'm there most of the year 'cause I hate it here I hate it here [Bridge] I'm lonely, but I'm good I'm bitter, but I swear I'm fine I'll save all my romanticism for my inner life and I'll get lost on purpose This place made me feel worthless Lucid dreams like electricity, the current flies through me And in my fantasies, I rise above it And way up there, I actually love it [Chorus] I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind People need a key to get to, the only one is mine I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears I'm there most of the year 'cause I hate it here I hate it here [Outro] Quick, quick, tell me something awful Like you are a poet trapped inside the body of a finance guy

[horsemage]

If taylor swift really wanted to live in the 1830s she would be wearing her hair like this. which frankly would raise my opinion of her significantly.

[selkmoth]

painting at chattsworth house, UK

[designedandplated]

Men's frock coats, 1830.

Redingote de drap doublee en velours. Gilet de casimir. Pantalon de drap. Redingote de velours plain. Pantalon de drap.

Cloth frock coat lined with velvet. Cassimere vest. Cloth trousers. Plain velvet frock coat. Cloth trousers.