Hamlet: O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise : I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it.
Rewatching Garrow’s Law for the first time in years and trying not to grind my teeth down to the gums at the state of the costuming, which looks as though someone went through the eighteenth century section of Angels pulling out bits at random and then shoved them all together. People are wearing a mishmash of styles from different decades, often all at once!
Why is Garrow dressed about thirty years out of date? Why is Lady Sarah (or rather Lady Hill, as she should be addressed since the title is her husband’s) running around town minus her chemise so effectively without underwear (or a footman or maid but that’s another matter)? Why do hardly any women seem to own a cloak or shawl, or wear a hat out of doors? Why do none of them wear a cap indoors? And why are so many men wearing frigging periwigs in the 1790s?!!
hey handsome, does the carpet match the powdered wig?
Try to woo my muse by sending them the worst pick up lines.
Ben huffed. "Clearly, I am not wearing a powdered wig, nor will I ever deign to. In case you were unaware, it is a trend started by the monarchy -- King L.ouis XIII, specifically -- and therefore, nothing of immediate interest to myself."
oh everybody please send me anything georgian-themed you see on here it's for a fiction idea . i reread the daniel lavery georgette heyer essay and im having thoughts i need visuals and Posts to feed them
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A must-have fashion item from the late 1600s is now rarely seen or heard about.
DAVID MORGAN, pictured right, had some hairy moments delving into the long-lost trade of Restoration period wig-makers
A look through the burial records of the graveyard of Croydon Parish Church reveals several different trades, crafts and jobs which have long since ceased to exist, some of which…
The use of wigs began prior to the 18th century, but they were very much in vogue throughout the 18th century and were known as either periwigs or perukes, and remained fashionable until the advent of hair powder tax which was part of the government’s way to find more ways to increase the empty coffers, at which time their prevalence diminished, and it wouldn’t take many years for au naturel to…
Bridgerton's fascinating to me. It achieves the ideal of all Austen-esque period dramas: taking a society defined by the genocide and enslavement of millions of Africans and distilling it into a set of empty aesthetic markers for people to write fanfic about. It's like the Zone of Interest with periwigs and pinkwashing.