tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post5387203819583766949..comments2023-10-20T11:17:47.246-04:00Comments on Two Nerdy History Girls: What Ordinary People Wore in the Early 1800sUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-774466716000498582018-04-28T21:37:25.852-04:002018-04-28T21:37:25.852-04:00Christine, I'm not sure how polite it was to r...Christine, I'm not sure how polite it was to receive company with one's feet up, but I've found a few portraits of women reclining on them, as well as a couple of women sitting. I didn't find anything on the double-backed models. <br /><br />http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_219851/Mary-Ann-Flaxman/Portrait-of-Eleanor-Anne-Porden-on-a-chaise-longue<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaise_longue#/media/File:Madame_R%C3%A9camier_by_Jacques-Louis_David.jpg<br /><br />http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/master-paintings-n09515/lot.83.html<br /><br />https://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Frank-Hobden/Classical-Lady-Reclining-On-A-Chaise-Longue.htmlLucynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-85967488859116669732018-04-28T09:06:06.050-04:002018-04-28T09:06:06.050-04:00This is off topic, but yesterday my family visited...This is off topic, but yesterday my family visited the Breakers in Newport. I noticed a lot of chaise lounges in the bedroom and asked the docent how you sat in them. He asked a friend, and they said that napping in bed was considered feeble, or improper so they invented the lounges, but they were only briefly popular. <br /><br />Do either of you know how you sat in one of those things, or why there were two chair backs in some models?Christine Guesthttp://www.christineguestdesigns.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-70182068812477664792018-04-26T23:00:08.303-04:002018-04-26T23:00:08.303-04:00I'm embarrassed that I can't remember whet...I'm embarrassed that I can't remember whether I read this on your blog, or another, or as part of some other research, but I do recall someone's comment that at any given time, at any given period of history, people would be wearing a variety of styles from various years--some quite forward-looking and others quite out of date--depending on taste, pocketbook, etc. So in researching fashions for, say, 1810, it's a good idea to look at what people were wearing a decade or two earlier, or even what they might have worn as fashion in their youth and not given up.<br /><br />Again, they might also choose to dress in a way that represented their class, or defied it. At times, it was a sort of contra-fashion for young men to dress like servants and coachmen; or someone (as today) might make a social statement through a style of dress or wig, or boycotting a particular fabric.<br /><br />I love the flexibility, frankly, because it allows me to give my characters style quirks that aren't fashionable--but more appealing to my modern tastes. For instance, my very unfashionable hero, in 1746, wears his OWN hair on his head. :-)Lucynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-73642623638517064472018-04-26T13:14:28.874-04:002018-04-26T13:14:28.874-04:00Great finds! This comes in handy for me. Thank yo...Great finds! This comes in handy for me. Thank you!History Underfoothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17015836735555618335noreply@blogger.com