Historical Costume Aficionado Pillows

"I just couldn't take all that clanking any more."

Flying Dutchman

Victorian Lady

Blue Dress and Feather

Sir Joseph Porter, KCB, First Lord of the Admiralty HMS Pinafore

A Macaroni in 1772

I want to hold your hand

Koko pleads with the Mikado

The Grecian Bend - Women's Fashion

A man wearing a ruff and a feather cap

Strong Female Lead

"Is there a seamstress present?"

Two Victorian men dancing

Ambrogio

Iron clad sailors

"So have you been watching Bridgerton?"

Classical Fashion Changed Rapidly and Distincly the Very Moment That Jerky Teenagers Were Invented.

Paris Fashions, Winter 1863-64

A design, showing how the pretty hoods worn by ladies might be made useful as well as ornamental.

Macbeth

'It's not mine.'

Juliet should have asked where for art Romeo the old fashioned way, calling from a balcony, not by texting him while he was driving.

"And when did this compulsion to wear crinoline petticoats begin, Susan?"

Don Giovanni

Lady in a blue and white dress

Mikhail Lermontov

Invitation

Sir Lionel Murgatroyd

Purple dress

Blue dress

'I need your honest opinion...does my butt look big enough in this?'

Costume

New Romantic

Aesthetic Pioneers

The Three Musicians - Illustration to Beardwell's Poem (Published Version)