playing around with some historical french fashions on furina (+ neuvi).. I think she should always get big silly hats
18th+19th century mens fashion is one of my fav fav fav things is ever so this was fun 🫡 love being fashion history neurodivergent
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Black empire style gown
Tulle and silk
C. 1800-1810, Napoleonic era
Centraal Museum, Utrecht
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"Taking the veil", painting by Emile Renard
French vintage postcard
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Ball Gown
Emile Pingat (Paris, France)
c.1864
The MET (Accession Number:C.I.69.33.12a–c)
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Frede (Suzanne Baulé) (deceased)
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Lesbian
DOB: 8 November 1914
RIP:13 February 1976
Ethnicity: White - French
Occupation: Entrepreneur, bar owner
Note: Frede was the first to allow women to dance together in a classic cabaret.
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Sack of Rome by the Visigoths on 24 August 410, Joseph-Noël Sylvestre, 1890
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Émilie Lévy & Louis Français
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 24 VIII 2023
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The French word for a werewolf is loup-garou. Etymologically, this compound is pleonastic: garou means 'werewolf' and loup means 'wolf'. It's also hybrid: loup stems from Latin lupus whereas garou was borrowed from West Germanic *werwulf. Click the image for more.
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Street scene in Bizerte, Tunisia
French vintage postcard
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French evening dress
c. 1887-89
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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fell down the "bals de victimes" folklore rabbit hole (balls for those who lost family members to the guillotines in which guests would dress in the macabre style of the victims)... anyways, im ready to pitch my eyes wide shut au set in france under the throes of the Reign of Terror (directed by guillermo del toro, obviously)
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