Served up fresh: our weekly offering of Breakfast Links! Our favorite links to other blogs, web sites, pictures, and articles, collected for you from around the Twitterverse.
• Rethinking those white Regency dresses: "Blinded by the White, Dresses and colour 1796-1815" http://bit.ly/AC3Oo6
• One of the greatest letters ever written, from poet Robert Burns to a critic: http://bit.ly/yF7ATe
• Great story of 18th c MA Gov Bowdoin's dinner party, his icy steps, & his (likely) inebriated guests: http://bit.ly/wF9XAd
• Amazing collection of 17th-19th c sleds/sleighs. http://bit.ly/wkJez9
• In honor of the new year: Here be Dragons http://wp.me/pPlVQ-ld
• Portrait painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, born in 1723, died this week in 1792. http://bit.ly/wpIEQD; to remember his talent, this handsome portrait: http://bit.ly/AyU3ud
• Real-life 'Gangs of NY': Leaders of the street gang "The Daybreak Boys" were hanged 28 Jan 1853 http://ow.ly/8BJlI
• 1500s Fashion for Gentlewomen included Fur (though not sure that all of these are dead) http://bit.ly/zNmBi2
• Maids of Honor from Queen Elizabeth's coronation remember too-tight gowns & fears of fainting: http://bit.ly/wX3vOP
• "Vegetable lambs of Tartary" - or exotic Chinese ferns? http://bit.ly/wCvl3V
• History myth debunked: "Everyone died young." Or not. http://bit.ly/xVhfwi
• At the Harp and Hoboy: John Walsh, Music Publisher' http://post.ly/4zOIx
• Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux, 18th c French painter, composer, and musician http://bit.ly/A3QE7M
• Gloves! http://fb.me/16aUlsjFD
• An old French tradition we should bring back: A gift basket from the groom with sparklies & dresses & things! http://bit.ly/Artd0K
• Robert Adam's renovation of the Drury Lane Theatre 1775 - 'plate-glass on green and crimson ground' - http://bit.ly/fV4dKN
• A Family Fashion Artifact: The passing down of a Victorian dress hook. http://ow.ly/8FFyi
• Henry VIII died this week in 1547: What Caused His Succession Problems: Syphilis or Bad Luck? http://bit.ly/xbYPUw
• Shakespearean Light Bulb Jokes - http://bit.ly/widygR
• The majestic lion, magical unicorn, the lustful but sensitive centaur: animals of medieval art: http://met.org/wMOmu6
• Madder, Badder and More Dangerous http://wp.me/p13rlt-1n5 Another Byron dueled with swords this week in 1765.
• Julienne Soup, "now highly in vogue" in 1759 - history & recipes: http://bit.ly/z4CigW
• Pink hair is all the rage - just like it was in 1914: http://slate.me/y77PLC
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4 comments:
Thanks for linking to my post about Rose-Adelaide Ducreux! I only wish there were more info available about her. I even pestered a PhD student friend of mine to access a research paper for me, but it didn't contain much more than I knew already.
I found the post "Blinded by the White, Dresses and colour 1796-1815" extremely well-researched and informative, and incredibly interesting! It's always a good reminder that all we know about history is really just conjecture based on the evidence available. We don't know anything for indisputable fact! Gives you kind of a Matrix-y feeling, no? ;)
Thank you for contributing "thou pickle-herring in the puppet-show of nonsense" to my vocabulary. I can always count on your two to enrich my life, not to mention my reading pleasure.
Marinni always has the most amazing posts!
And here's that sedan chair from a few posts back, with the hair of the seated lady being much taller than its roof :D .
Thank you for the dragons, too - I was in a play that welcomes the lunar New Year and have been dragon-happy lately :) .
I'll have to dig it up, but the craze for colored hair began in Paris ca. 1913 and then spread to the very, very chicest women by 1914.
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