Hullo to everyone here, gentlemen, ladies and those who have yet to make up their minds. I'm called Melanthios, and am a strange concoction of Taoist, Hellenistic Pagan, Fop, Storyteller and avid Player of Make-Believe Alone in My Room. I live on the second floor of Disneyland's New Orleans Square, with all the *ahem* Ladies of the Night, and I ( Read more... )

Hi everyone

Can anyone provide a link to a good site about 18th century clothes?  I've been looking around and haven't found anything too detailed.  It could be historical or comical or a costume site - anything would be lovely.

Ta ta for now!

Do you appreciate the quality of Restoration Hardware's home decor and furnishings, but wish for items a little more ornate, in colors beyond sandstone and lichen ( Read more... )

Please accept my most humble apologies for my first post here being a link to a post in another community but I am also a member  foto_decadent and thought that the members here would be as entranced by the following pictures as I was.

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While some of these are C19th in inspiration, lots of them might also appeal to the C18th fancrowd....

( Beyond The Pale Perfumes )

Well, what did we think?

My only regret was the music. While I like the idea that we should support and encourage working composers, some period music would have been nice. We did, at least, get to see a harpsichord, and possibly hear it, although I'm not at all sure that the instrument we saw was the same one we heard.