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finnwaller

This is basically the same as making out.

thomas paine is just an eighteenth-century tank guy send tweet

#the man just really loves his ships okay #whoisshethismistressofmayhem #lifeintrade

mournfulroses

Charlotte Brontë, from her novel titled "Jane Eyre," originally published in 1847

vibraph0ny

Everyone's all "ohhh 2026 bring back physical media" until I start talking illuminated manuscripts and then suddenly we're not on the same page anymore

somewhere-south-of-neutral

Actually we are on the same page. We've been on the same page for a week because these things take forever to make

question of the day:

“so like…what do you use the blank books for?”

“most commonly for notebooks, pocketbooks, ledgers, account books, anything a customer wants, really”

“so like, diaries?”

“and record books and stuff, yeah.”

“so they sold diaries here.”

“sure.”

#lifeintrade #whoisshethismistressofmayhem #museumwork

speedrunning 18th century daily life as accurately as possible by *checks notes* regularly dodging infectious diseases until my luck runs out and *squints at writing on hand* working during every single holiday and weekend, wait that can’t be right—

#whoisshethismistressofmayhem #lifeintrade

lawfulgoodsir

royal navy captain giving officer pep talk: one more thing.. men..as you are dressing your hair in the morning..it is vitally important that you at least pull some slut strands out in the front

#this post was sponsored by captain frederick wentworth

marzipanandminutiae

so I’ve just been made aware of this image from 1926

it’s a bunch of women in clothing from different earlier eras reacting to an extremely modish flapper. like, more extreme even than most fashionable women of the period were willing to go

Miss 1917 on the far right seems to be showing distinct interest. bordering on horniness. Miss 1917 needs a cold shower, is what I’m saying

from left to right, it looks like:

- late Victorian? maybe 1910s? (skirt’s too short to go with the hat if it is meant to be Victorian- could be sporting-wear, a later skirt standing in, or something that originally belonged to a smaller woman)

- earlier in the ‘20s? some weird attempt at 18th century, based on the makeup? I’ve got nothing for this one. honestly the dress looks almost 1930s to me, except the sleeves are a bit late 1890s-ish?

- 1910-ish

- 1905-ish

- around 1917

I love this so much. I love that they seem to have dug up “vintage” clothes- including the necessary undergarments, for the outfits that require specific corsets. I love the varied expressions, ranging from horror to scorn to curiosity

(personally, I’m right there with the unimpressed Gibson Girl type. “ugh, girl, seriously? you look like you’re wearing a pillowcase. no thanks.”)

humans have been thinking about how their ancestors would react to the present forever. we really never change

omgthatdress

Half-Mourning Dress

1910-1912

The Victoria & Albert Museum

yamino

What’s a “half-mourning” dress? Mourning in the front, party in the back?

borta-deactivated20150310

Half-Mourning was the third stage of mourning for a widow. She would be expected to mourn her husband for at least two years, the stages being Full Mourning, Second Mourning and Half-Mourning. The different stages regulated what they would be wearing, with Full Mourning being all black and with no ornamentation, including the wodow’s veil, and the stages after that introducing some jewellery and modest ornamentation. When in Half-Mourning you would gradually include fabrics in other colors and sort of ease your way out of mourning.

Wow, I am happy you made that joke so I could interpert it as a serious question and have an excuse to ramble on about clothing customs of the past, I am a historical fashion nerd.

yamino

That’s very informative, but I’m going to stick with my original head canon:

mumblingsage

I love both the informed fashion history and the hilariously off-the-wall halves of this post.

mae-martin

My name is Enola, which, backwards, spells “alone.” But I now see that being alone doesn’t mean I have to be lonely. I am a detective, I am a decipherer, and I am a finder of lost souls. My life is my own. And the future is up to us.

averagefairy

ok can we agree that the WORST feeling is when you’re just sitting around consciously procrastinating and you’re just overly aware that each second that passes is more time wasted and you like watch hours pass and you’re STILL procrastinating and you CANT STOP and your panicked brain is trapped inside a body that refuses to be productive and inside you’re screaming but outwardly you’re just eating chips