Sir Dandy

A blog of Fanciful Pleasures, Historical Fashions, and Romanticism.

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— March 4th, 1834 

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The true enemies to lovers

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Beyond the Keyhole | Xavier Sager

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Joseph II Sugar daddy of Schloss Schönbrunn

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Day 1: Amadeus (1984)

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Thomas Rowlandson

Christmas Gambols, November 30, 1812

Hand-colored etching

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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pleas elisten to my brother explain his Dickens Village this year

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I’m glad I’m not the only brother causing chaos for the Dickens Village. My mother and sister have had to deal with my hand made miniature Frollo for the past 2 years. A once peaceful and jolly town, plagued by a foreboding presence who plots something nefarious.

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I go feral for antiques. Who held you? Who loved you? How did you end up here, with me?

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Костюм женский праздничный “Троицкий” | “Trinity” female festive dress

Нижегородская область, Кстовский район, село Безводное. Середина XIX века. Собрание русского народного костюма Сергея Глебушкина.

Nizhny Novgorod region, Kstovsky district, the village of Bezvodnoe. The middle of the XIX century. From Sergey Glebushkin’s collection.

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you know a movie is going to FUCK when its 4pm on a thursday and it just you and four 70 year old women in the theatre

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And you know that period film is going to be extra kinky/spicy when two of those 70 year old women bring their husbands. 

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Allegory of Comedy by Louis Dorigny  (French, 1654–1742)

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the sheer eroticism of a bloodstained blouse... effervescent.

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Girl with Peacock, George Frederick Watts

Medium: oil,canvas

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Early 1900s Jean Angelou Postcard

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