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Image ID: An "anti-bloomerism" political cartoon from Punch Magazine showing several women smoking at a bar with a man patiently pouring them more alcohol. Title reads No. VI. - SOMETHING MORE OF BLOOMERISM. Subtitle: (behind the counter there is one of the "inferior animals.")

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are you a Byron or Wilde apologist?

concerned citizens from 1895 are messaging me

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be a vain, thoughtless, dressy slattern

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be a very busy and pushing young Whig

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[ID: A newspaper headline reading “Women’s pockets” with subheading “Most Mysterious of All Places on Earth.” End ID.]

The Boston Weekly Globe, Massachusetts, May 29, 1889

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rather than going to bed, sit up reading, by the light of a couple of candles, an old book of last-century fiction

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crochet an antimacassar

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The false bride is her mortal enemy.

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marry a lady of some fortune

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meet by chance a kind stranger who turns out to be your long-lost relative

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19th century AITA only its "Have I been the most dreadful cad?"

Yes you are an abominable bounder/No you behaved as a gentleman should/All parties mentioned seem simply horrid

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be denounced as a scientific charlatan, a renegade, and a corrupter of youth for your creation of set theory

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knit a toilet cushion

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the homies are melancholic and despondent and their sleep is troubled by visions

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come around to the notion when you realise that you may, under the plea of paying greater respect to the memory of the dead, make it an object of ambition to wear a fashionable style of mourning in its greatest excellence

reluctantly enter full mourning for a husband you despised

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like most fashionable women, consider bracelets indispensable: wear on one arm firstly a sentimental bracelet, composed of hair and fastened with some precious relic; secondly a silver enameled one, having a cross, a cassolette, or anchor and heart, as sort of a talisman; decorate the other arm firstly with a bracelet of gold network; secondly with one composed of medallions of blue enamel, upon which are placed small bouquets of brilliants; lastly a broad gold chain, each link separated with a ruby and opal alternate.

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be passionately in love, and therefore wear a gold watch and chain, a ring upon the little finger, and a long-tailed coat; and use a great deal of bear’s grease—which, taken in conjunction with the ring, looks bad