More dapper, more puffskeins
Added 2017-05-02 07:33:30 +0000 UTCI'd ask for Theseus' number, but I doubt they have a telephone.
And Newt in knickerbockers and stockings is just too cute.
Useless knowledge time: In researching at what age boys exchanged the knickerbockers for long trousers (and it seems to have been 13/14), I found out that, between 1550 and about the late 19th century, boys wore dresses until they were about seven. Frilly, silky, pink, lacy dresses. Made it easier for them when nature called apparently. O_o
I have indeed wondered at the prevalence of daughters in those 18th century royal family paintings - and now I know about half of those sweet little girls are indeed sweet little boys! Art historians have developed a whole set of distinctions to discern between boys in dresses and girls in dresses in paintings and photographs. Hair length often doesn't help. Painters and photographers outfitted little boys with swords, whips and other masculine toys - or painted their dogs more active than the girls'.
Quite fascinating.
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Hehehe, I love digging up little costume factoids like that ^_^ Back to the art, the attire and poses look great! <3
Alexandra Rena
2017-05-08 15:50:18 +0000 UTCI know! There was a time when pink was quite fashionable for boys here, too - I remember watching my Year 8 sitting an exam, and finding myself counting pink shirts. Two were worn by girls, five by boys. That would have been about 8 years ago. Seems it was quite short-lived though. Our former headmaster often wore pink shirts, probably because he was 100% colourless otherwise. XD
Jenny Dolfen
2017-05-02 13:59:53 +0000 UTCAwesome. I can't wait to see it in color. Also an interesting note - up until about the 1940s pink was for boys and blue for girls. In Japan today pink is still a masculine color and it isn't unusual to see salary men in pink dress shirts if they're not wearing white.
Bronwen MacDonald
2017-05-02 11:23:23 +0000 UTC
