#1870s evening

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Pink Taffeta Ballgown, ca. 1872.

Augusta Auctions.

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Evening coat, 1870-1900.

[daguerreotyping]

Tintype of a group of barefoot sailors at ease, c. 1870s

[fashionsfromhistory]

Day Dress

Charles Frederick Worth

c.1870

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Accession Number: 2002.696.1-5)

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode illustrée, no. 4, 28 janvier 1872, Paris. Toilettes de Mme Bréant-Castel, 28 rue Neuve des Petits Champs. Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

Robe de dessous en satin blanc. Première jupe en tarlatane blanche, avec volant plissé ayant 25 centimètres de hauteur. Au-dessus de ce volant une bordure grecque en velours rouge, se terminant par des bouclettes de même velours. Seconde jupe pareille garnie de même (volant de moitié moins haut que le précédent), relevée de chaque côté. Corsage décolleté en velours rouge à petites basques et manches courtes. Collier en corail rouge. Dans les cheveux diadème en grenades.

Jupon de faye fris bleu, garni d'un volant froncé ayant 35 centimètres de hauteur. Au-dessus de ce volant, des pattes en velours de même couleur, fixées par un grand bouton d'argent. Au-dessus des pattes, une ruche en faye. Tunique garnie de même. Corsage montant à basques, et manches à volant avec même garniture. Sous-manches larges en dentelle.

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White satin underdress. First skirt in white tarlatan, with pleated flounce 25 centimeters high. Above this flounce a Greek border in red velvet, ending in loops of the same velvet. Second similar skirt trimmed in the same way (ruffle half as high as the previous one), raised on each side. Low-cut red velvet bodice with small peplums and short sleeves. Red coral necklace. Pomegranate tiara in her hair.

Blue Faye Fris petticoat, trimmed with a gathered flounce 35 centimeters high. Above this ruffle, velvet tabs of the same color, attached by a large silver button. Above the legs, a faye ruffle. Tunic trimmed in the same way. High peplum bodice and ruffled sleeves with the same trim. Wide lace undersleeves.

[vintage-russia]

"Evening" (1860s/1870s)

Aleksey Savrasov (1830-1897)

[mote-historie]

Alfred Stevens, After the Ball. 1874

This painting, also known as Confidence, is one of several by Stevens to treat the theme of consolation. As in his other works from the 1870s, here the anecdotal content of a letter containing distressing news asserts itself in a glimpse of the life of fashionable Parisian women in their elegant interiors. Stevens's subject matter and his meticulous attention to contemporary dress and decor elicited analogies to seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art; in fact, one critic called him the Gerard ter Borch of France.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[threadtalk]

How about a wrapped gown? I mean, truly, this looks like a Christmas present.

This gown was made by fashion house and official royal dressmaker, Madame Elise and is likely one of Princess Alexandra's. It dates from around 1870, and you can see that it still has the hallmarks of the 1860s--especially that bodice--but is a bit less full. The bell-shape, tiered look has a lot going on! The dress was lost, but rediscovered in the 20th century in a shop in London.

Madame Elise was a powerhouse in London during this 1860s-1880s, but her warehouse compound was certainly not the best place to live and work. Dressmakers were expected to work long hours (6am-11pm) and were put in cramped quarters with very little ventilation.

One of the workers wrote: “At night we retire to rest in a room divided into little cells, each just large enough to contain two beds. There are two of us in each bed. There is no ventilation; I could scarcely breathe in them when I first came from the country. The doctor who came this morning said they were not fit for dogs to sleep in.”

From Fashion Museum Bath.

[getvalentined]

Seem's best friend is a brass crab with no pincers that I got from a consignment shop for $8

[ghouljams]

Outlaw!König’s crime is stealing our hearts (and also probably murder)

It's definitely the murder

[salsflore]

everyday i wake up and have to start a new boss challenge called dealing with my mother

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Peach silk evening dress, 1876-1878, British.

Victoria and Albert Museum.

[sushisocks]

what do u think seans experience in reform school was like?? apparently the punishments were….well.

OH ANON!!!!! YES let's talk about this!!!!

So, a majority of the reform school horror stories that at least I've been hearing over the past few years have been largely been about schools that operated in the 20th century and into the 2010s at the latest, like the Dozier school or Elan. Then obviously there's the rest of the troubled teen industry but that's a more modern thing. Anyway, there's not a whole lot to go on for the late 1800's BUT I did manage to find a website which has a model for reformatory rules and regulations in 1890's Britain, which if nothing else, gives us something to go off in terms of what conditions could be like.

To start with, I think the fact that Sean was sent to reform school instead of other options interesting. Reform school was for delinquents; criminal children. Most likely, this means Sean was involved in criminal activity alongside his father - though, alternatively, it could mean whoever had to deal with Sean in the aftermath of Darragh's death, took one look at him and decided reform school was where he had to go.

Of course, Sean would never make life EASY for the officers and teachers of the school he was sent to. Not only is he there against his will, but those people and that place would, in his mind, all belong to the same entity which orchestrated his father's murder. That boy CAME to school with the intent to escape.

I think, with my HC of him having ADHD and dyslexia in mind, paired with his undoubted lack of respect for whatever authority figures that'd be at the reformatory, Sean would be singled out as a troublemaker from the get. It'd be one of those 'living up to expectations' thing from there, Sean making enemies out of the adults who were supposed to care for him and definitely coming up with ways to make their lives harder.

Sidenote; I definitely believe the little laugh Sean has after remembering his time in reform school was him reminiscing about all the pranks and shit he pulled to harass the workers there lmfao.

Of course, that also means he saw a LOT of the punishments they doled out. On the website they linked above, corporal punishment was VERY much on the agenda and I think Sean def saw the worst of it. I think an important aspect here is the understanding that once these things are seen as acceptable punishments, there's nothing stopping the person doling them out to up the severity of them despite regulations. A flogging shouldn't exceed 18 strokes nor a caning 8; but this offender has had several in the past few weeks and still keeps making trouble, lets add a couple extra just to get the message across.

I think the same goes for the punishments regarding isolation and meal deprivation; you can't tell me a young Sean already doesn't know the feeling of skipping meals out of necessity by the time he arrives at reform school - losing ONE meal as the regulations say with the assuredness of the next would do nothing to dampen Sean's spirits, nor a day in isolation.

Idk, Sean was truly desperate for money/food after 3 days, like that was when he tried to kill someone for it. Personally speaking, I go more than 12 hours without eating and I'd probably try to kill someone too. The 3 days speaks to a familiarity with hunger.

And idk, I definitely think Sean is used to being alone!!! It's why he likes being around people so much!! He grew up with only his father to rely on in the whole wide world, who probably HAD to leave Sean alone for prolonged amounts of time to do what he did as a Fenian & criminal. His scene in RDO also speaks to this; he gets lost and is on his own often!! It's not that he prefers it, but he is definitely used to it, and a day in isolation would probably make 0 difference to him fr!!

So, better up the ante to truly get those punishment across.

These are based on the British regulations for the time, mind! I couldn't find anything similar for the US, and I doubt there'd been a federal standard at the time, so I honestly imagine the punishments were more severe from the get, for Sean. Of course reform schools were supposed to be focused on reform over punishment, but when you're dealing with someone as possibly incessant and unyielding in their misbehavior as I imagine Sean was, punishment WOULD seem like the only option, with the knowledge they had at the time. I think he probably got the worse end of a LOT of it, because he wouldn't capitulate to the will of the reformatory very easily.

I don't think Sean stuck around for very long; around a year at most, I'd think. I also don't think he aged out of it, as the age of majority was 21 and it was more common for reform schools to set them up for some sort of legal work after 'graduating'. So yeah, he ran away, and promptly buried a lot of the bad shit he went through, as he is prone to do.

Thank you for this ask, anon!! I had a lot of fun thinking and reading about this, yall are REALLY indulging me here lolol

[daguerreotyping]

Tintype of a handsome pair, the man in front leaning cozily back into his companion's embrace, c. 1875-1880

[fashionsfromhistory]

Day & Evening Bodices owned by Empress Eugenie of France

1850s-1870s

The Bowes Museum via Facebook

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode illustrée, no. 14, 3 avril 1870, Paris. Toilettes de Mme Bréant-Castel, 28, r. Nve des Pts Champs. Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

Toilette de bal. Première jupe de tulle garnie de volants en tarlatane, plissés à la grecque. Le devant de la jupe à un seul volant; le lé de derrière est entièrement couvert de volants pareils. Au-dessus de ce volant se trouve une draperie fixée par des touffes de violettes, rattachées ensemble par des guirlandes de lierre. Tunique de satin vert clair, garnie d'un volant en blonde relevé par des bouquets de violette ceinture-pouff en même blonde. Dans les cheveux, branches de lierre et bouquets de violettes.

Jupe de dessous. En gaze de soie blanche à rayures mauve, garnie d'un volant pareil au-dessus duquel se trouve une bande de taffetas mauve, plissée, bordée de chaque côté d'une dentelle noire très-étroite. Tunique de taffetas mauve, garnie d'une même ruche et d'une dentelle noire ayant 10 centimètres de largeur; corsage ouvert en carré; manches larges. L'encolure est garnie, comme les manches, d'une bande plissée et d'une dentelle noire.

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Ball gown. First tulle skirt trimmed with tarlatan ruffles, Greek pleated. The front of the skirt has a single ruffle; the back strip is entirely covered with similar ruffles. Above this ruffle is a drapery secured by tufts of violets, tied together by garlands of ivy. Light green satin tunic, trimmed with a blonde ruffle accented by bouquets of belt-pouff violet in the same blonde. In the hair, branches of ivy and bouquets of violets.

Underskirt. In white silk gauze with mauve stripes, trimmed with a similar ruffle above which is a strip of pleated mauve taffeta, bordered on each side with very narrow black lace. Purple taffeta tunic, trimmed with the same ruffle and black lace 10 centimeters wide; open square bodice; wide sleeves. The neckline is trimmed, like the sleeves, with a pleated band and black lace.