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Armor with matching shield and saddle plates collectively embossed, blued, silvered, and gilded, belonging to Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria (1529–1595). Made in Milan, ca. 1559, housed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

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"HOT VIKING GUYS ARE WAITING TO MEET CHASTE ENGLISH LADIES IN YOUR AREA"

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What's not to love?

Clean, brushed hair ✓

Clean bodies ✓

Clean clothes ✓

Guys who wash their ass ✓

pochowek

i love that one old timey 1910s trans dude who has a tiny wikipedia page for himself that he earned entirely due to him starting fights in bars and being the city’s hottest casanova

pochowek

i mightve remembered it wrong but it still feels like half of this page is “I’m A Man For Fucks Sake” and the other half is “That Motherfucker Is In Jail Again And Also Bit A Cop”

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oh my GOD this is the best list

“ “[DEADNAME] Again" “

Like this glorious jerk got arrested so many times that was literally ALL THEY HAD TO WRITE IN THE PAPER

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He was a vagrant street kid and Seattle girls were all over this guy, to the point where it caused a moral panic. There’s a famous anecdote about a women proclaiming her love in Denny Park and then trying to shoot herself, but most of these reports were falsely worded in a way that suggest his female admirers were “upset about being deceived” when really they were upset that he was wooing other women, or trying to get his attention by being as extra as possible.

What you also should know is that back in the day “seduction” was a literal crime that could put you in prison (unless you married the woman you seduced) but since he wasn’t cis they couldn’t really CHARGE HIM with anything. Legend.

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I especially like “Seattle Woman Appears in Men’s Clothes Because She Says Her Features Make it Possible.” I can’t imagine anything but someone going “Hey! You can’t dress like that!” and him responding “Oh yes I can. You see, I look very good.”

theladytrickster

I want a TV show about him

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WIKIPEDIA MONSTER COMPILATION PAGES FOR PEOPLE

japanese creatures

greek creatures

creatures organised by type

creatures listed by letter

humanoid creatures

filipino creatures

chinese creatures

cryptids

‘fearsome critters’

angels

beings referred to as fairies

creatures that pretend to be human

a page on therianthropic creatures

shapeshifters

hybrid creatures

extraterrestrial creatures

deities

a page of mythology page links

a section of folklore page links

flying creatures

theological demons

fictional species lists

mythology related lists

legendary creature related lists

#monster

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@fatphobiabusters

@fuckyeahfatpositive

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treantalis-borealis

Bernadette Banner I think talks about this on her YouTube channel, I think. There's "survivorship bias" in historical clothing where a lot of what we have that's well preserved is quite small, so it gives the false impression that people were all skinny back in the day. But actually, it's not that there were more skinny people - it's that those garments were more likely to survive precisely BECAUSE it was rare for someone to be small enough to wear them!! They were often clothes of young people who outgrew them quickly and because they were too small to let out or remake (unlike larger garments that could be made smaller or reworked into new pieces more easily) they stuck around!

#history #representation matters #all kinds of bodies

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The iron hand of Götz von Berlichingen (1480-1562), a knight and mercenary who lost his right arm in a siege [640×360]

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points about this -it was shot off by a cannon -he continued being a knight for over 40 years after getting the iron hand -it was delicate enough he could still write with a quill using it, which is important as he was described as a ‘warrior poet’ -after a merchant-punching life suitable for an elder scrolls protagonist he was outlawed by the holy roman empire, friends of his used a high diplomacy roll and a bribe to get him out, and he then almost immediately kidnapped a bishop -after outlaw of the holy roman empire 2 electric boogaloo was placed under house arrest in a castle he had purchased with all his quest rewards to spend the next 20 years drunk off his ass

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I can’t believe you’d make this post and not mention that his poetry contains the first known usage of the phrase “lick my ass”

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Princess Maria Carolina Augusta of Bourbon by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.

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Hello! I was wondering what the difference between robes à la française and robes à l'anglaise is? (And maybe a basic summary of each if it isn't too much trouble?) Merci!

Sure! I think it’s a good time to go back to the basics for anyone who is new in the 18th century fashion.

The robe à la française and the robe à l’anglaise are the two iconic dresses of the century, and are practically the base for all other dresses. Both dresses change silhouettes, skirt shapes, volume and details, through the century, but remained clearly differentiated from one another.

First of all, we have the names you can find both gowns known as:

Robe à la française. Meaning “French gown” or “French style gown”, can be also known as: sack back gown, sacque, or Watteau gown (if you find 19th century info about this dress, you might find this term, that is not contemporary of the 18th century). When people think of 18th century womenswear, they usually think of this dress.

robe à la française, 1765-70 // robe à la française, 1740s // robe à la française, 1710-1770, all The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Robe à l’anglaise. Literally “English style gown”. Also known as close-bodied gown, or English gown.

robe à l’anglaise, 1785-87 // robe à l’anglaise, 1750-75 // robe à l’anglaise, 1750-75, all The Metropolitan Museum of Art

These two dresses might share several details in design, but the key difference is simply the back:

Loose pleats for the robe à la française, and fitted pleats for the anglaise (yes! Those are not cuts, but pleats in the back, stitched to fit close to the body!)

Robe à la française, 1750-1770, Met Museum // Robe à l’anglaise, ca. 1770, both The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Traditionally, a French gown has an open front with a stomacher, and an English gown has a closed front, but they can have any kind of front, since what gives them the name, are the backs.

robe à la française, 1775-80 // robe à la française, ca. 1760 // robe à la française, 1770-75, all The Metropolitan Museum of Art

robe à l’anglaise, ca. 1770 // robe à l’anglaise, ca. 1770 // robe à l’anglaise, ca. 1745, altered 1770s, all The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Both dresses can also be worn retousèe or à la polonaise, which is when you lift the back of the upper skirt with ties or though the pockets, BUT a robe à la polonaise is a different kind of dress!

Robe retroussee dans les poches, 1780, Kyoto Costume Insitute // robe à la polonaise, ca. 1780, Met Museum

Note: The first is a robe à la française (worn retousée dans les poches, like the Kyoto title indicates), and the second a robe à l’anglaise worn à la polonaise, but I left the title by the Met (if someone wants to look for the item, the title would be needed).

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Vintage Moschino Cow-Print Handbags

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Sailors and excotic Birds

However, many people associate sailors, especially when it comes to pirates, with a very special companion. The Bird, mostly a parrot.

Already Columbus brought back five long-tailed macaws from his voyage in 1492 and sixty parrots from his next voyage. They were not only fabulous gifts for his patrons, but also tangible proof of his discoveries. As a result a real hype broke out. And many ships that were on their way to foreign worlds during the Age of Discovery brought back home beautiful and rare birds. But not only as companions during the voyage but rather to sell them. At home a sailor could get up to 10£ for a bird, a good profit. And they were easy to handle during the crossing, they hardly took up any space and feeding was possible with leftover food. The value of a bird could be increased by teaching it to talk and some tricks. This kept the birds busy on board and provided a fuller purse when the animal was sold.

Pirate with a Parrot by Thomas Blackshear ; Long John Silver and his Parrot by N. C. Wyeth 1911

Others tried to sell these animals, not only parrots, to faculties as research objects. This meant that researchers who could not travel themselves had a certain quota and, together with the travel reports, which the captains were also happy to sell, they had a basis for researching such exotics. But not only birds were brought home, monkeys were also very popular. Small anecdote from my own family, my great great grandfather, lieutenant of the German Imperial Navy, had taken a monkey home for his daughter, my great grandmother, when he was in Africa. But the animal didn’t live long, on the one hand he had problems with the North German weather and on the other, a power line he had climbed on was his end.

Signalman Tim Ryley with his beloved, but vexatious, parrot Mac, 1908; Woman at the Piano with Cockatoo by Gustave Léonard de Jonghe, 1870

Some of them were not sold, but travelled with the captains as companions. Admiral Thomas Cochrane reports in his autobiography that when he sailed with his uncle Captain Alexander Cochrane on the HMS Thetis in 1794 (he served there as a midshipman) there was a parrot on board. This bird was even allowed to fly freely on deck. Much to everyone’s chagrin, however, this animal had learned to speak and liked to imitate orders, which caused great confusion. For example, the parrot made sure that a lady who was brought on board with a boatswain’s chair was pushed into the sea just because the bird shouted “Let go”. The Astrolabe, a French research vessel that sailed to Antarctica in 1837 under the command of Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville, had a cockatoo on board. This animal was probably much appreciated even though it had destroyed the captain’s barometer.

Nehemiah Slade, Able Seaman with his Parrot, Master and Commander

This suggests that the association of sailor with parrot was not a sailor’s yarn or the fanaticism of painters, although it is based on true facts. Especially since this kind of exotic animal trade existed far into the 20th century before it was banned.

audreydoeskaren

Hello! I was wondering if you knew anything about Chinese Sleepwear! I've been trying for hours to find what would be considered traditional sleepwear and have had little clear success. I will take anything you've got on this, any kinds from any dynasty, I NEED MATERIAL. xD On a side note!: Articles on Hanfu keep popping up as well when I search 'traditional Chinese Sleepwear', were Hanfu also used as sleepwear?

Hi, sorry to tell you but there is no such thing as "traditional Chinese sleepwear". Before the 20th century, Chinese people went to sleep in their undergarments or whatever was comfortable and clean----quite a universal practice. For night-time, garments worn by Ming and Qing women included:

抹胸 moxiong or 主腰 zhuyao, a sort of unstiffened corset-like undergarment buttoned at the front or tied at the back

A plain undershirt, which could be closed by a 交领 jialong crossover collar or 对襟 duijin center front button closure, depending on the era. These wouldn't be too long, usually hip length

A plain pair of underpants; I talked about the construction of Ming and Qing women's pants in this post

If the weather is cold, an optional 肚兜 dudou, a sleeveless apron-like undergarment, underneath the undershirt. This is more of a Qing Dynasty thing though

If the woman binds her feet, then also binding cloth and a pair of slippers

I think the only item here specific to sleeping is the slippers for bound feet. Women with bound feet only wore slippers for sleeping and would put on regular shoes if going out.

In the Republican era (1912-49), more specific styles of sleepwear emerged, often heavily influenced by popular Western styles of sleepwear. Prior to the 1930s, there were pyjama sets that resembled fashionable aoku (robe and pants) in silhouette, but were made of softer, more comfortable materials. From the 1930s on, Western sleepwear like bathrobes, slip dresses and pyjama sets were more popular. These were usually made of pink or peachy colored fabrics with a satin texture, and frequently featured lace trims. An interesting sleepwear phenomenon was night- or dressing gowns with shoulder pads from the 1940s, which you could catch a glimpse of in the 1947 movie Long Live the Missus.

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Ca. 1925 lounge- or sleepwear.

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1930s pyjama sets.

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1930s sleepwear in dress form.

I'm kind of confused regarding your last question...? You talk about hanfu as if it were a single item of clothing, whereas it's just a modern term for historical Chinese clothing (well the two aren’t exactly identical, a lot of modern hanfu isn’t 100% historically accurate but you get the gist). Does it make sense to ask "was historical Chinese clothing also used as sleepwear"? Probably not because historical Chinese clothing included the category of sleepwear. The reason why your browser gives you hanfu articles for "traditional Chinese sleepwear" is likely because "hanfu" and "traditional Chinese" are related search terms, not because hanfu is a single garment that is also sleepwear. Also, the related searches on Google are, in my experience, never accurate or useful when it comes to Chinese fashion history, so I wouldn't advise being reliant on that function. Hope this helps!

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Hungarian hunting sword, late 18th century

from Sofe Design Auctions

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Scary Japanese Monsters — The Giant Firebreathing Chicken

In Medieval Japanese folklore the Basan is a giant chicken that lives in the mountains of Iyo Province (modern Ehime Province). The chicken breathes ghost fire, which is a blue flame that does not burn. At night it creates an eerie sound with the rustling of its wings. Supposedly, if a human hears the sound and looks outside, the bird’s form will suddenly vanish.

#draw