Baroque Underpants
11 Jan
I’ve been off the net all weekend because my cousin Mary came to visit– yay! We mostly just went to really tasty restaurants and drank a lot of wine, but we also made our way to the Museum of American History for a few hours yesterday. There, I was reminded how very convenient a thing it is to be able to claim “it’s for research!”
New book of awesome:
Yeah. So cool. It even has cartoons of the 17th century in it.
Proving once more that human beings were absolutely no different 400 years ago than they are today. Sitcoms of the early 1600s– just as lame as the ones we have now!
Awesome.
Anyhow, back later/tomorrow with the whole recs thing. Got ‘em saved as bookmarks, just need to catch up with things, then sort them out.
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Now that’s a blog title.
I miss buying books for research, I’ve turned into a lazy miss and keep using the ‘not necessarily reliable’ internet.
My coolest research book is an encyclopedia of arms and weapons through the ages.
The lumber industry of the 1880s doesn’t touch Baroque underpants. Just sayin’.
I can’t put my finger on it, but there’s something in that black and white illustration that is damned creepy…
Cate, that’s what I’ve done for underwear til now– so unreliable for stupid stuff about which no one cares. Like Baroque Underpants. But great for other things!
Jamie, that is truly cool. I have a few in a series of arms and armor books– my favorite is Arthurian, so Britain just after Rome fucked off.
Aaron, not much could, I suppose, so nothing against the 1880s lumber industry.
Barry, very, very creepy. Most cartoons pre-1850 give me the willies anyhow. Must be my post-Victorian sensibilities.
Makes me grateful to live in an age of comfortable, form-fitting underthings.
I shudder to think of the layers upon layers upon layers they used to have to put on back in the day.
That is an awesome cartoon! What a find.
I so love that research line!
(And with the frequency with which people lose clothing in your books, that thing is a necessity!)
Nat, I’ll drink to that. The Victorian ones are particularly alarming. Unsurprisingly.
Danielle, that’s what I’m saying. It seems to have been all right in medieval times, but then it just got straight up weird.
Jeremy, my cousin and I were both amused, you can imagine.
Megh, too true. If only I’d had this book during my first draft, maybe Tom wouldn’t have had to sleep naked!
… Yeah. Like that’s gonna happen.