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@dbokser (Me, I kinda can, but I have spent an awfully long time practicing)
@gorfram @MuteVicars @fakehistoryhunt It's fine. Parasols only needed to shade the face, since during the daytime the dress would cover up to the neck (only evening wear exposed the shoulders).
Fashion plates of the time show parasols as relatively tiny.
@DoctorPizzaMD Still far and away the best media adaptation of The Hobbit ever made.
The cover art above is by the talented @SteveEllisArt
Here's some of my interior art for The #HammerAndTheStake #TTRPG
@PascualEugenia @wikivictorian If ladies were doing high speed things (such as ice-skating, shown here), women wore shallow little bonnets they could see around easily.
The deep poke bonnets were for when they needed deep shade and were ambling slowly or otherwise not needing peripheral vision.
@PascualEugenia @wikivictorian A bonnet ties under the chin, a hat does not.
That's the only distinction, srsly. Sometimes the only way you can tell what's a bonnet is if it has ribbons dangling down.
But as for those poke bonnets, well, they just couldn't see to the sides. 🤷♀️
“Make ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN everyone can tell we’re (whispers) you know. YOU KNOW.”
(circa. 1830 Portrait miniature of Anna Clifton (nee De Veignon), with her children, Frances, William and George
@StevenESchend @NataniaBarron In my experience you have to consciously and actively look for diverse art when choosing illustrations. It feels almost like they have been pre-filtered so that segregated illustrations dominate, and if you don't pay enough attention your work will contribute to the erasure.
@Spoolses @Trungles @Coelasquid Ah, thanks! I had a lot of fun making it. And I have SO much more research than I could fit in. I couldn't fit in the Turkish thing and reduced the whole weird Orientalism issue to one quick fancy dress mention: