Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 45

[cahn]

Unfortunately, there was then at Berlin a King who pursued one policy only, who deceived his enemies, but not his servants, and who lied without scruple, but never without necessity.

(from The King's Secret - by Duke de Broglie, grand-nephew of the subject of the book, Comte de Broglie, and grandfather of the physicist) )

Comments

Re: Breeches

[cahn]

Oh, that's neat! I hadn't realized that much thought would have to go into them. Let us know when you find out about later breeches :)

Re: Breeches

[luzula]

This Twitter thread is amusing and has more on 18th century breeches! It's not said outright, but I now suspect that the fall front of late 18th breeches is there to conceal a similar sort of bunching as we see on earlier breeches.

Re: Breeches

[mildred_of_midgard]

That was great, thank you for sharing!

Salon update: this week is going to be brutal at work, but my 14-hour days are paying off and I'm catching up on work, and I hope to be back to salon next weekend. I may even manage to read (no promises about replying to) Selena's many FS posts, which I have been looking forward to, tomorrow. (Usually when I'm behind on salon for this long, it's behind on replying, not on reading--I think this is the first time I've fallen this far behind on reading!)

Looking forward to seeing you all again soon!