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Originally Posted by Cicero
History nerd-age is the best. None of you are alone in that.
Anyway the Victorian items I am in dire need of right now are a suitable crinoline and perhaps a brocade polonaise. Although recently I made just about the best find EVER going through my mother's old hippy clothes: She had a god-knows-how-old chinese brocade frock coat. No idea what period it's from, but the cut is absolutely gorgeous, and fits over my full Victorian skirts beautifully. My mother also agreed to allow me to inherit her heirloom Edwardian wedding gown (dating from pre-1900's, before my Great Grandfather was born). Holy crap do I love my mother right now.
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Sounds nifty. I don't know what either a crinoline or polonaise is, but they sound very Victorian. I'd love to have all that if, y'know, I wore skirts and such. Still, I like anything with a taste of antiquity. Congrats on what sounds like quite the lode of
old-timey things.
I also like King Edward VII, if for no other reason than that he ended Queen Victoria's taboo against smoking cigars in court.
"Gentlemen, you may smoke." -Edward VII, King Of England