#mids 1870s

[princessvictoriamelita]

Duchess Ludovika in Bavaria with her adored granddaughter Duchess Amalie in Bavaria, mids 1870s.

[historical-fashion-polls]

no costume descriptions were available with this plate, so i'm not going to put anything "official" in the actual poll, but these are my guesses:

left: french nobility, mid-1700s

center: harlequin

right: roman soldier?

if you have thoughts/ideas on what these might be, feel free to share!

[fashion-from-the-past]

Day Dress- 1870-74

[secretceremonies]

Woman in mourning dress, 1870s

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode illustrée, no. 22, 1 juin 1873, Paris. Toilettes de Mme Breant-Castel r. du 4 Septembre. 19. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

[waxscentedcandles]

Time for school ?

[jeannepompadour]

Countess Virginia Castiglione, possibly 1860s-70s

[esteemed-excellency]

For Hiram! ⚓️ and 🎟️!

⚓️ Which faction is your OC closest to?

He's closest to hell, and most renown with the great game.

🎟️ Have they written anything for the Shuttered Palace’s court?

Hiram accepted all kinds of commissions to increase his reputation at court, as soon as he got back in touch with society after the fall. He always was a decent writer but he refined his talent and he got the hang of music composition too, favouring symphonic poems and waltzes. The literary works he's most proud of are A Nocturnal Rhapsody, A Gothic Romance, and A Bazaarine Tale. He also helped Tristram Bagley/the Topsy King to complete his unfinished masterpiece.

Needless to say, he was immediately interested about moving pictures when they were first presented in London and he instantly got into films.

He doesn't care for the position of Poet Laureate at the moment, he prefers to write academic dissertations and research journals, but it could be a nice opportunity for the future, you never know.

[fauvester]

i think i'm warming to the 1890s just a tiny bit.. usually that's my hard stop for enjoying seeing and making antique garments because it is SO intensely grandmacore. but every once in a while i do see a pigeonbreast s-curve look that does it for me

[lilyabsinthe]

More Mid-Bustle Style

Joseph Scheurenberg, Confidences, 1878 Today we take take our examination of Mid-Bustle Era/Natural style further with this circa 1879-1881 day dress: Day Dress, c. 1879-1881; Metropolitan Museum of Art (C.I.50.105.17) This dress is constructed of old gold/champagne-colored silk taffeta for the skirt and and bodice body combined with black silk taffeta on the sleeves and parts of the bodice. The…

[princessvictoriamelita]

The children of King George I of Saxony and Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal, mids 1870s.

Prince Frederick Augustus, Prince Maximilian, Princess Mathilde, Princess Maria Josepha and Prince Johann Georg.

[historical-fashion-polls]

submitted by @edwardian-girl-next-door 🖤🤍

[fashion-from-the-past]

The change of fashion through the years 1867-1907.

[chiefofboatwatsonstittymug]

Deeply vexed by the relative recency of anti-septic methods of medicine

[we-are-not-afraid-92]

Briefly interrupting my slew of I miss phantom content to say goddamn Erik and Aaron Covenant from Undying would be such a power couple

[akakay31]

So much for Legends Celebi or B3W3, lmao.

But for real, before anyone starts theorizing about ultimate weapons or ancient wars in Pokémon Legends ZA, there are a few important things to consider first:

1. The game will be set entirely in Lumiose City.

A bit disappointing, though Lumiose is already a big place, and it’ll only be bigger now that it’s the central focus. A smaller scope will also probably mean a higher-quality product in the end, too. Though it does makes me wonder how catching wild Pokémon will work within an urban city. Maybe the game will be more battle-focused, as opposed to the catching-focused Legends Arceus.

2. The game will (almost certainly) not be about the events of 3,000 years ago.

If it wasn’t already obvious by the limited setting, Legends ZA will most likely have little to do with the events of the ancient war and ultimate weapon. If it’s anything like Legends Arceus, Legends ZA will instead be set in a period based on the latter half of the 19th century, soon after the invention of Poké Balls. Anything set before this period would predate the invention of Poké Balls, and thus have to have drastic changes to its gameplay, which is something I just don’t see happening.

And we know that Legends Arceus is set during the mid-to-late 1800s because of the events it is based on, i.e. the Japanese annexation of Hokkaido in 1869, as well as the subsequent colonization efforts.

Similarly, we can guess that Legends ZA will be set during this same period because of the event it is seemingly based on, Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s renovation of Paris from 1850 to 1870.

For those unaware, Haussmann’s renovation was an urban renewal project, commissioned by Emperor Napoleon III, that included the demolition of old medieval neighborhoods, the annexation of surrounding suburbs, the construction of new sewers, etc. The renovation was extremely unpopular, what with the whole bulldozing thousands of houses and replacing them with standardized streets and buildings thing, resulting in Haussmann’s dismissal in 1870. However, work on his plans continued until 1927, and ultimately are what made Paris what it is today.

While Legends ZA likely won’t go too far into the nitty-gritty of the real-world events, knowing what the game will be drawing from is essential for any speculation on what we can expect to see.

In fact, using this same method, we can probably even guess what future Legends games will be like by looking for historical events during the mid-to-late 1800s period. Take Unova, for example, which could…

Oh.

Oh no.