1830's Fashion Picspam and POTC Fail

[lesmisloony]

Watching POTC for the first time since I went all 18th century mad. Now it's twice as interesting! I've always loved this movie, but I stopped watching it after the second and third came out and annoyed me. And then I got mad at Johnny Depp and I've never liked Orlando Bloom and I have an on-and-off love/hate thing for Keira Knightley... but I

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[mmebahorel]

I need to find my pics from the V&A - a few years back, they had an actual 1830s dress and undergarments on display and I took pictures and copious notes (there were no sleeve hoops, thank god, and the undergarments were displayed with drawers but without the petticoats that would have been necessary to give the skirt the proper bell shape). I was most interested in that the corset was still regency-style, with a single busk in the front and with a single cord tie in back, making it impossible to tight-lace (it also looked to have more quilting than boning). Now I just have to figure out what I did with those picture files, because those particular garments were not on display anymore when I went back. (Which was to be expected, but they changed the costume section all around into utter thematic crap - it used to have a good chronological flow to the selections with thematic groupings of accessories every so often. I was definitely drooling over some square-toed fuck me boots from the 1820s. Hessians are hot, but nothing is as great as those roll-tops that usually make me want to have mad sex with Javert. Well, his boots.)

[lesmisloony]

Those pictures sound fascinating!

And I definitely don't hide the way I can feel about the right pair of boots... even if Colm Wilkinson is inside them. Yow.