#historic costuming tumblr please know the hair style here was a choice
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Continental Army Pvt. Deborah Sampson Gannett in her wedding dress, 1785.
(aka I can't stop collecting gender non-conforming 18th century New Englanders, and got really excited when I realized a gown I'd saved as reference on Pinterest was, in fact, her wedding dress).
#my art#digital art#sketchbook#history#deborah sampson#18th century#historic costuming tumblr please know the hair style here was a choice#even in 1797 in her portrait her hair is interestingly very unstyled and loose in a way that looks pretty masculine for the time#which may be intentional on the artists part to evoke her soldiering days but may just be close to how she wore it#either way i thought it would be fun to represent her with a similarly masculine hairstyle. gender is fun.
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