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Creator of #frockingfabulous. I write bestselling WW2 sagas as Ellie Curzon and 18th century history/old Hollywood books as myself! Always gandering.
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The Exquisite, Alias Dandy in Distress, is so buttoned up and laced in that he can't pick up his fallen kerchief! This image illustrates a letter from a correspondent (beneath the image) who has concerns about modern fashions... via the Lewis Walpole Library.

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The loved to rib the Prince Regent as often and as cheekily as possible! “A view of the R-g-t's bomb" by Charles Williams, 1816, is more concerned with the Prince’s was enormous bum than the mortar he received from the Spanish after the Peninsula War.

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She’s got a lot of front, as my gran would’ve said. Dollalolla, by Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, via the Tate. Dance-Holland produced a number of comical sketches after his retirement, and this is one of them.

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“I don’t wear wigs, this is my hair.” In La brillante toillete de la Déesse du Gout, c.1775, a fashionable lady models a towering wig for her adoring macaroni as her maid prepares another! via the British Museum.

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The Bum-Bailiff is outwitted by a canny lady who abandons her scaffolded frock to make good her escape! of 1786 via the British Museum.

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For the lady who has everything, how about a personal puppet dandy? Cruikshank’s The English Ladies Dandy Toy, via the British Museum. gloriousgeorgians

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A fashionable mama breastfeeds her baby in Friedrich Tischbein's Portrait of a Family, c.1795-1800, via Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel.

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"You ain't seen me, guv'nor." This no-nonsense baby is the work of Mary Beale. Mary's popular studio was in London and she employed her husband to mix her paints and do her paperwork while she got on with her painting! A bruiser of a bub from the V&A.

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Heinrich Hoffmann, the man behind the frankly terrifying Shockheaded Peter, was born in 1809. And a million childhood nightmares began…

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Harriet Martineau, sociologist, was born in 1802. She became "a great Lion in London, much patronized by Ld. Brougham who has set her to write stories on the poor Laws”.

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